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Hieromartyr Eutychius, disciple of St. John the Theologian (1st c.). 
Translation of the relics of St. Peter, metropolitan of Kiev and Moscow (1479).
Martyr Tation, at Claudiopolis (305). Virgin- martyr Kyra of Persia (558). St. George Limniotes the Confessor, of Mt. Olympus in Bithynia (ca. 716). New Hieromartyr Cosmas of Aitolia, Equalto- the-Apostles (1779). St. Arsenius, founder of Komel Monastery (Vologda) (1550). St. Aristocleus, elder, of Moscow and Mt. Athos (1918). St. Martyrius, archbishop of Novgorod (1199). Appearance of the Most Holy Theotokos to St. Sergius of Radonezh (ca. 1385).
New Hieromartyr Seraphim (Shakhmut), archimandrite, of Grodno (Belorussia) (1946).
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Petrovskaya” (“Of St. Peter of Moscow”) (ca. 1306).
St. Ouen (Adouen), archbishop of Rouen (Gaul) (ca. 683). Hieromartyr Athanasius II, patriarch of Jerusalem (1244). Translation of the relics of St. Dionysius of Zakynthos, archbishop of Aegina (1716). St. Serapion the Wonderworker, abbot, of the Monastery of St. John the Baptist at Gareji, Georgia (1774). New Hieromartyr Maxim Sandovich, priest, of Lemkovina, Poland (1914).
Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By St. Theophan the Recluse
Tuesday. [II Cor. 5:15-21; Mark 1:16-22]
The Lord taught in the Capernaum synagogue, and everyone marvelled at His teaching: for He taught them as one that had authority, and not as the Scribes. This authority is not a commanding tone, but the power of influence on souls and hearts. His Word entered within, and bound itself to human consciences, showing that all was as He said. This is how a word which is imbued with Divine power, a word from the Spirit, or an anointed word always is. This is how it was with the holy apostles, and after them, with all influential teachers. They spoke not from learnedness, but as the spirit gave them the gift of prophesy. It is a gift of God which can only be acquired through labors to master it in one’s heart and life, and not just by learning. Wherever this occurs the word is imbued with cogency, because it moves from heart to heart; in this is the power of the word over souls. Scribes, speaking and writing from their learnedness, are not given such power, because they speak from their head and mix into their head their own philosophizing. Life is not found in the head, but only life’s surface. Life is in the heart, and only what comes forth from the heart can influence the currents of life.
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