Understanding the Day
Season
Time After Pentecost
Week
Week 19 of Time After Pentecost
Rank
Simple feast
Daily Prayer
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Weekly Prayer
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Weekly Formation
Anger and Meekness
The Way of Darkness
Anger
Sinful anger is a disordered movement toward revenge or punishment beyond what justice and charity allow. The emotion of anger can arise without sin, but it becomes vicious when deliberately nursed into resentment, hatred, cruelty, or uncontrolled retaliation.
The Way of Light
Meekness
Meekness moderates anger so that strength remains under the command of reason and charity. It is not weakness or indifference to injustice; it enables correction and defense of the good without hatred, cruelty, or loss of self-possession.
Saint & Feast
Saturday Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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Hilarion
St. Hilarion, Abbot
anchorite and saint who spent most of his life in the desert
- Born
- 0291-01-01 · Gaza City
- Died
- 0372-01-01 · Paphos
Hilarion (291–371), also known by the bynames of Thavata, of Gaza, and in the Orthodox Church as the Great was a Christian anchorite who spent most of his life in the desert according to the example of Anthony the Great (c. 251–356). While Anthony is considered to have established Christian monasticism in the Egyptian Desert, Hilarion, who lived in the coastal area near Gaza, is considered by his biographer Jerome, to be the founder of Palestinian monasticism - regarding this claim see also Hilarion's contemporary, Chariton, founder of monasticism in the Judaean Desert. Hilarion is venerated as a saint exemplifying monastic virtues by the Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church.
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