The Holy Hieromartyrs of Cherson: Basil, Ephraim, Capito, Eugene, Aetherius, Elpidius, and Agathadorus (4th c.).
St. Paul the Simple, of Egypt (4th c.). St. Paul the Confessor, bishop of Plousias in Bithynia (9th c.). St. Emilian, monk, of Rome (6th c.).
New Hieromartyr Nilus (Tyutyukin), hieromonk of St. Joseph of Volokolamsk Monastery (1938).
Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos “Surety of Sinners” (Moscow) (1848)
Sts. Nestor and Arcadius, bishops of Tremithus (4th c.). St. Ephraim, patriarch of Antioch (546). St. Lawrence, founder of the monastery of the Mother of God on Salamis (1707). St. Dandus and All Saints of Thrace. Martyrs Codratus, Saturninus, and Rufinus, of Nicomedia (250-259) (Gr. Cal).
Repose of Schemamonk Sisoes of Valaam (1931).
Friday.
The Lord had said unto Abraham: Get thee out of thy
country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s
house, unto a land that I will show thee (Gen. 12:1).
This is an explicit image for the change of heart which
occurs in true believers, when they sincerely take upon
themselves their cross, and follow Christ. They leave
their father—selfishness, crucifying it through
self-denial; they leave their kindred—their personal
sinful leanings, passions and habits, crucifying them
through the resolution to follow unswervingly and in all
things the passion-slaying commandments of the Lord; they
leave their country, the entire sinful realm, the world
with all of its demands, crucifying it with the resolution
to be alien to it—although for this it might be
necessary to endure not only loss of property and social
status, but even to endure death itself.