Today we remember those in our lives who have fallen asleep. We bring our lists and the names are commemorated during the Liturgy.
1st Saturday of Great Lent: The Miracle of the Boiled Wheat
Today we remember the miracle of Saint Theodore the Recruit and the boiled wheat. Fifty years after Saint Theodore’s martyrdom, Emperor Julian the Apostate (361-363), devised a plan to corrupt the Christians during the first week of Great Lent…Saint Theodore appeared to Archbishop Eudoxios in a dream, telling him to assemble all the Christians on Monday morning and tell them that they must not buy any food from the marketplace. Instead they were to boil some kollyva and to eat it with some honey during that week. The hierarch asked Saint Theodore what he meant by kollyva. He replied, “Kollyva is what we call boiled wheat in Euchaita.” Thus the scheme of the idol-worshipping emperor was thwarted and the pious people were preserved undefiled during Clean Week…read more at: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/03/12/9-1st-saturday-of-great-lent-the-miracle-of-the-boiled-wheat
