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Word from the Desert

We encountered Abba John the Persian at the Lavra of Monidia and he told us this about Gregory Dialogos (the Great), the most blessed Bishop of Rome (590-604):

I went to Rome to pray at the tombs of the most blessed Apostles, Peter and Paul. One day as I was standing in the city center I saw that Pope Gregory was going to pass by. I had it in mind to prostrate myself before him (so as to ask for his blessing). The attendants of the Pope began saying to me, one by one, "Abba, do not prostrate yourself," but I could not understand why they had said that to me; certainly it seemed improper for me not to prostrate myself. When the Pope came near and perceived that I was about to prostrate myself - the Lord is my witness, brethren - he prostrated himself down to the ground and refused to rise until I had got up. He embraced me with great humility, handed me three pieces of gold and ordered me to be given a monastic cloak, directing that all my needs were to be taken care of. So I glorified God who had given him such humility towards everybody, such generosity, and such love.

John Moschos, Leimonarion (The Spiritual Meadow) 151

Meditations on the Orthodox Life from the Early Church Fathers, Ascetics, Saints and Righteous


Items in the calendar below are from the Orthodox Calendar and Lectionary as published by the Orthodox Fellowship of St John the Baptist.

PostHeaderIcon Weekly Calendar, w/c 19th February 2012

Sunday, 19th February

Divine Liturgy 10am

SUNDAY OF MEATFARE; SUNDAY OF THE LAST JUDGEMENT; Apostles Archippus and Philemon, of the Seventy, and Martyr Apphias (1st); New Martyr Philothei of Athens (1589); St Theodore (Ushakov) of Sanaskar (1791).

Monday, 20th February - MEAT FAST

St Leo, Bishop of Catania (Sicily c 780); St Dionysius, Pope of Rome (268); Hieromartyr Sadoc (Sadoth), Bishop of Persia (342-4); St Agathon, Pope of Rome (682).

Tuesday, 21st February - MEAT FAST

St Timothy of Symbola in Bithynia (9th); St Eustathius, Archbishop of Antioch(c337).

Wednesday, 22nd February - MEAT FAST - No Liturgy!

Uncovering of the relics of the Martyrs at the Gate of Eugenius at Constantinople (395-423); St Athanasius the Confessor, of Constantinople (826).

Thursday, 23rd February - MEAT FAST

Hieromartyr Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna (167); St Alexander, founder of the Monastery of the "Unsleeping Ones" (c 430); St Boisil (Boswell), Abbot of Melrose (664); St Milburga, Abbess of Wenlock (715); St John the Harvester (Theristis) of Mt Consolino (Calabria llth); St Polycarp of Briansk (1620-1); St Zenobius, Metropolitan of Tetri-Tskaro (Russia, Georgia 1985).

Friday, 24th February - MEAT FAST - No Liturgy!

First (4th) and Second (452) Finding of the Honourable Head of Holy, Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John; St Cumein, Abbot of lona (c 669).

Saturday, 25th February - MEAT FAST

Great Vespers 6pm

Saturday of Cheesefare; Commemoration of all Monks and Nuns; St Tarasius, Patriarch of Constantinople (806); St Ethelbert, King of Kent (616); St Walburga, Abbess of Heidenheim (779).

Sunday, 26th February - MEAT FAST

Divine Liturgy 10am

SUNDAY OF CHEESEFARE; The Expulsion of Adam from Paradise; Forgiveness Sunday; Martyr Photini (Svetlana), the Samaritan Woman (1st); St Porphyrius, Bishop of Gaza (420).

 
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