The Prologue of Ohrid Jun 20

Year Zero · Jun 20, 2026 · 10m

CONTEMPLATION

To contemplate the miraculous withering of the unfruitful fig tree: And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he came up to it and found nothing on it but leaves; and He said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you henceforth forever!” And immediately the fig tree withered up (St. Matthew 21:19):

* How the Lord cursed the fig tree that had many leaves but no fruit, and the fig tree withered up;

* How my life too, which has many leaves—bodily cares, desires and thoughts—but is without spiritual fruit, can come under the same curse, if I do not mend my ways.

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