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Saturday, April 4 / March 22 (Church Calendar)
~Great and Holy Lent~

Photo of the Day

Abbot Tryphon, Roastmaster. Why not go to our website and order some of our fine coffees for Pascha? You’ll be supporting the Monastery, and enjoying one of the worlds finest coffees, all at the same time! http://www.vashonmonks.com

Saints of the Day

March 22 / April 4. Hieromartyr Basil of Ancyra. St. Isaac, founder of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople. Martyr Drosida (Drosis) of Antioch, and five nuns. Martyrs Callinica and Basilissa of Rome. New-Martyr Euthymius of Mt. Athos. New-Martyrs Schema-abbess Sophia of Kiev (1941) and her priest Fr. Dimitry Ivanov (1934).

Quote of the Day

“What a man loves that he assuredly clings to and everything that obstructs his way to it he despises, lest he be deprived of it; and the man that loves God is concerned for pure prayer and every passion that obstructs his way to it he casts out of himself.”

St. Maximus the Confessor

Scripture Readings for the Day

Hebrews 9:24-28

²⁴ For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; ²⁵ not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another— ²⁶ He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. ²⁷ And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, ²⁸ so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.

Mark 8:27-31

Peter Confesses Jesus as the Christ

²⁷ Now Jesus and His disciples went out to the towns of Caesarea Philippi; and on the road He asked His disciples, saying to them, “Who do men say that I am?”
²⁸ So they answered, “John the Baptist; but some say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets.”
²⁹ He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”
Peter answered and said to Him, “You are the Christ.”
³⁰ Then He strictly warned them that they should tell no one about Him.

Jesus Predicts His Death and Resurrection

³¹ And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.