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The Holy Apostle Jude

The Holy Apostle JudeOne of the Twelve Apostles, he was the son of Joseph and Salome (not the Salome from Bethlehem, but another), and brother to James the Lord"s Brother. Joseph the Carpenter had four sons by Salome: James, Hosea, Simon and Jude. Jude is often called "Jude the brother of James", to note his relationship with his brother (Lk. 6:16; Acts 1:13). St Jude begins his Epistle: "Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James". Although he could call himself the Lord"s brother, just as James did, he did not do so. This was out of humility and out of shame, because he did not believe in Christ the Lord at the very beginning. When the aged Joseph desired to give Jesus His portion of the property before his death, just as he was doing for his other children, all of them were against it, including Jude, and only James voluntarily shared out his portion and laid some aside for Jesus. Jude is also called Levi and Thaddeus. There is another Thaddeus, or Jude, one of the Seventy (see August 21st), but this Thaddeus or Jude was one of the Great Apostles. He preached the Gospel in Judea, Samaria, Galilee, Idumea, Syria, Arabia, Mesopotamia and Armenia. At Edessa, the city of Abgar, he continued and developed the preaching of the other Thaddeus. While he was preaching in the region around Ararat, he was seized by the pagans, crucified and shot through with arrows, that he might reign forever in the Kingdom of Christ.

Our Holy Father Paisius the Great

Our Holy Father Paisius the GreatHe was an Fgyptian by birth and by language. After a vision in a dream, his mother dedicated him to the service of God, and he went to St Pambo while still a youth. Pambo accepted him as a disciple, and he was a fellow disciple there of St John the Dwarf, who wrote Paisiu"s life. To the joy of his spiritual father, Paisius piled labour upon labour one ascetic feat upon another. The Prophet Jeremiah, whom he especially revered and read frequently, appeared to him often, and also the Lord Christ. "Peace be to thee, My beloved in whom I am well-pleased!, the Lord said to him. By God"s great grace, Paisius had the particular gift of being able to abstain completely from food. He would often not eat bread for a fortnight, even more often for a week, and once, according to the testimony of John the Dwarf, he went for seventy days without tasting a thing. He waged a tremendous war against evil spirits, that sometimes appeared to him in their own form and sometimes as angels of light. But God"s servant, filled with grace, never once let himself be deceived and led astray. He was a seer and a wonderworker famed throughout the whole of Egypt. He went to the Lord in the year 400. Isidore of Pelusium took his relics to his own monastery and buried them there.

The Holy Martyr Zossima

The Holy Martyr ZossimaA Roman soldier at the time of the Emperor Trajan, he courageously confessed his faith in Christ the Lord and endured many bitter torments. In the midst of his torture. a voice was heard from heaven: "Be of good cheer, Zossima, and sign yourself with the Cross. I am with you." Angels of God appeared to him in the prison. After manifold sufferings, he was beheaded with an axe in the year 116.

Our Holy Father John the Solitary

Our Holy Father John the SolitaryHe lived the ascetic life near Jerusalem in the sixth century. His asceticism brought him to a high degree of purity and spiritual power, so that the wild beasts were obedient to him. He entered into rest in the Lord in 586, at a great age.

Venerable Zeno, hermit of Egypt (late 4th c.)



Hieromartyr Asyncretus

Martyred at the Church of Holy Peace by the Sea in Constantinople.

Venerable Barlaam, monk, of Shenkursk (1462)

Venerable Barlaam, monk, of Shenkursk (1462)

Venerable Paisius the Bulgarian, of Hilandar, Mt. Athos (18th)

Venerable Paisius the Bulgarian, of Hilandar, Mt. Athos (18th)The Monk Paisii of Khilendaria was born in the year 1722 in Bansko into a pious family. One brother of the monk – Lavrentii, was hegumen of Khilendaria Monastery, and another was noted as a generous benefactor of Orthodox temples and monasteries. But the Monk Paisii himself went through his obedience at Ryl'sk Monastery. In 1745 at age 23, Saint Paisii went across to his brother in the Khilendaria Monastery on Mount Athos, where he took monastic vows. On the Holy Mountain the ascetic matured spiritually; he deeply studied Holy Scripture and he was vouchsafed the priestly dignity...

Saint John Maximovitch

Saint John MaximovitchSaint John was born on 4 June 1896 in the village Adamovka in the province of Kharkov in Southern Russia. He was a descendent of the aristocratic family Maximovitch, a member of which was pronounced a saint in 1916, the hierarch John Maximovitch, Metropolitan of Tobolsk, whose incorrupt relics are in Tobolsk to this day. This holy hierarch reposed at the beginning of the 18th century but he carried the torch of his grace to his distant nephew, Michael (the baptismal name of Saint John, who later received the name of his uncle when he was tonsured a monk). His father Boris was a marshal of the nobility in a region of Kharkov and his uncle was rector at the University of Kiev. His relationship with his parents was always excellent. Throughout his youth, Michael was sickly and ate very little.

April 1949
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     New Martyr Nicholas of Karamanos in Smyrna (1657)
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St. martyr Longinus
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Martyrs Philemon and Domnina of Rome
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Martyrs Callinica and Basilissa of Rome (2nd c.)
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Saint Ipomoni - holy and right believing Empress Helen Dragas Palaiologos
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Martyrs Stephen and Peter of Kazan (1552)
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St. Senuphius the Wonderworker of Latomos (9th c.)
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Martyr Pullius the Reader.
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Prophet Hanani (Ananias)
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Venerable Hilarion, monk, of Gdov (Pskov) (1476)
10
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Venerables Jonah (1480) and Mark of the Pskov Caves
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Hieromartyr Zacharias, bishop of Corinth (1684)
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St. Stephen the Wonderworker, monk
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Martyrs Geroncius and Basilides (3rd c.)
14
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Virgin-martyr Theodora of Palestine
15
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Venerable Nectarius, abbot, of Bezhetsk (1492
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+++ Palm Sunday (The Entry of our Lord into Jerusalem) - Cveti
17
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Five girls martyred at Neanidor of Lesbos
18
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New Martyrs Manuel, Theodore, George, Michael, and another George, of Samothrace (1835)
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Venerable Leucius, abbot of Volokolamsk (1492)
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Thursday of Passion Week, Holy Thursday
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+++ Holy Friday, Good Friday
22
strict fast
Holy Saturday
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strict fast
+++ Easter, Holy Pascha
24
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+++ Bright Monday, Renewal Monday
25
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+++  Bright Tuesday, Renewal Tuesday
26
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New Martyr Demetrius of the Peloponnesus, who suffered at Tripoli (1803)
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St. Leonidas, bishop of Athens
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Monk-martyr Christopher
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Venerable Macarius of Corinth (1805)
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Moon phases for April , 1949 (Serbia)
06 Apr 1949 First Quarter
13 Apr 1949 Full Moon
20 Apr 1949 Third Quarter
28 Apr 1949 New Moon