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10th Week after Pentecost.
Tone 8.
Успенский пост. |
 Wine and oil allowed.
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Forefeast of the Dormition. Prophet Micah (8th c. b.c.). 
Translation of the relics of St. Theodosius of the Kiev Caves (1091).
Hieromartyr Marcellus, bishop of Apamea (ca. 389). Translation of the relics of St. Arcadius, monk, of Novotorzhok (1798). Commemoration of the disciples of St. Tikhon of Zadonsk: Monks Theophanes, Aaron, Nicander, Cosmas, and Metrophanes (18th-19th c.).
New Hieromartyr Basil (Bogoyavlensky), archbishop of Chernigov, and with him New Monk-martyr Matthew and New Martyr Alexis (1918). New Hieromartyrs Nazarius, metropolitan of Kutaisi, Georgia, and with him priests Herman, Hierotheus, and Simon, and archdeacon Bessarion (1924). Synaxis of the New Martyrs of Georgia who suffered under the Atheist Yoke (20th c.). New Hieromartyrs Matthew (Pomerantsev), archimandrite, of Perm (1918), and Eleutherius (Pechennikov), schema-archimandrite, of the Holy Trinity Monastery (Smolensk) (1937). New Martyr Eve (Pavlova), abbess of Holy Trinity Convent in Penza (Saratov) (1937).
Martyr Ursicius, at Illyricum (305-313). St. Fachanan, abbot, of Ross Carbery, Cork (ca. 600). New Martyr Symeon of Trebizond, at Constantinople (1653).
Repose of Archimandrite Theodosius (Makkos) of Bethany (1991).
Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By St. Theophan the Recluse
Saturday. [Rom. 15:30-33; Matt. 17:24-18:4]
The Lord paid the required church tribute and [kept] all other practices, both church and civic. He fulfilled this and taught the apostles to do the same, and the apostles in turn passed this same law on to all Christians. Only the spirit of life was made new; externally all remained as it had been, except what was clearly against the will of God—like, for instance, participating in idolatry, etc. Then Christianity gained the upper hand, displaced all former practices, and established its own. One could expect that it would thus be easier for the spirit of Christianity to develop and strengthen. So it was, but not for everyone. A large percent mastered external Christian practices but stopped there, not concerning themselves with the spirit of life. It is the same today. Out of the entire sum of Christians, who proves to be a Christian in spirit? What are the others? “They bear the name as if they are alive, but behold—they are dead.” When the apostles preached the Gospels, their word drew God’s portion out from the midst of the pagan world. Now through the same word the Lord chooses His portion from amidst the Christian world. “Whoso readeth, let him understand,” and let him take care to find out for certain whether he is in the portion of the Lord; and if he cannot be certain of this, let him take care to belong to the Lord, for in this alone lies salvation.