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4th Week after Pentecost.
Tone 2.
Fast of the Holy Apostles. |
 Monastic rule: xerophagy (bread, uncooked fruits and vegetables).
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Martyr Aquilina of Byblos in Lebanon (293). St. Alexandra, foundress of Diveyevo Convent (1789). St. Triphyllius, bishop of Leucosia (Nicosia) on Cyprus (ca. 370).
Martyr Antonina of Nicaea (ca. 284-305). St. Anna of Larissa in Thessaly (826) and her son John (9th c.). St. Andronicus, disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh (1395), and St. Sabbas (15th c.) abbots, of Moscow.
Synaxis of New Martyrs and Confessors of Zaporozhie (Ukraine).
St. Antipater, bishop of Bostra in Arabia (458). St. Niphon, monk, of Kapsokalyvia, Mt. Athos (1411). New Hieromartyr Anthimus the Georgian, metropolitan of Wallachia (1716). Martyr Diodorus of Emesus.
Repose of Archimandrite Dimitry (Egorov) of Santa Rosa, California (1992).
Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By St. Theophan the Recluse
Monday. [Rom. 9:18-33; Matt. 11:2-15]
The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. The kingdom suffereth violence—that is, it is attained with violence, with labour, force, and difficult spiritual struggles; therefore only those who lead a labor-filled ascetic life attain it. This is how comfort of every sort is renounced along the path to the kingdom. Pleasures of all types distance us from the kingdom; but these days we have concern only for pleasures, sometimes emotional, but more often fleshly: to eat, drink, have fun, make merry and luxuriate in everything. We have said to the kingdom, “I beg you to excuse me,” though there is a feast in the kingdom—a royal feast, one so sumptuous that we could not even conceive of it, because we do not have the taste for it. What there is considered sweet, to us is bitter; what there is pleasant, for us is repulsive, what there gladdens, for us is a burden—we have gone totally separate ways. And the kingdom, together with the violent who take it by force, withdraws from us. We are glad, even ready to drive them away more quickly, indeed we already have started talking about it; but the evil one does not manage to arrange this.
Articles
 Martyr Aquilina of Byblos in SyriaThe Holy Martyr Aquilina, a native of the Phoenician city of Byblos, suffered under the emperor Diocletian (284-305). |
 Martyr Antonina of Nicea, in BithyniaAfter fierce tortures, Saint Antonina was thrown into prison, but Maximian could not force the saint to renounce Christ and offer sacrifice to idols. |
 Venerable Sava the Abbot of MoscowSaint Sava of Moscow succeeded Saint Andronicus as the igumen of the monastery of the Savior, dedicated to the Icon of Christ Not-Made-By Hands (August 16) in 1395. |
