First Saturday of the Great Fast – Theodore the Recruit; Our Venerable Father Cassian (430-35)
Read
Hebrews 1:1-12; 2 Timothy 2:1-10;
Mark 2:23-3:5; John 15:17-16:2
Blessed Theophylact writes about the restoration of the man with the withered hand: “There was a time when our hands, that is, our strength to act, were sound when there was not yet any transgression. But when the hand of man was stretched out to take the forbidden fruit, from that time o it withered and would not do good. But it will again be restored to its former health when we stand in the midst of the virtues” (Explanation of the Holy Gospel According to St. Mark, 3:1-5). We are now six days into the Great Fast. Let’s keep the pace and practice those virtues!