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St. Joseph the Hymnographer, of Sicily (883). St. George, monk, of Mt. Maleon in the Peloponnese (5th c.-6th c.).
Martyrs Pherbutha (virgin) and her sister and servants, of Persia (341-343). St. Zosimas, hieromonk, of Palestine (560). St. Joseph the Much-ailing, of the Kiev Caves (14th c.). St. Zosimas, founder and abbot of the Annunciation Monastery at Lake Vorbozoma (ca. 1550). St. James, monk of Starotorzhok in Galich, Kostroma (15th c.-16th c).
New Hieromartyrs Benjamin (Kononov), archimandrite, and Nicephorus (Kuchin), hieromonk, both of Solovki Monastery (1928). New Hieromartyr Nicholas (Karaulov), bishop of Velsk, New Nun-martyr Maria (Lelyanova) of Gatchina (1932).
“Life-giving Spring” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
St. Isidore, bishop of Seville (636). St. Theonas, metropolitan of Thessalonica (1541). New Hieromartyr Nicetas the Albanian, of Mt. Athos (1808). St. Elias, schemamonk, of Makeyevka (Ukraine) (1949).
Repose of Elder Savvas of Little St. Anne’s Skete, Mt. Athos (1908) and Archimandrite John (Maitland- Moir) of Edinburgh, Scotland (2013).
Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By St. Theophan the Recluse
Tuesday. [Acts 4:1–10; John 3:16–21]
He that believeth not in the Son of God is condemned already (John 3:18). For what? For the fact that when light is all around, he remains in darkness, due to his love for it. Love of darkness and hatred of the light make him entirely to blame, even without his determining where the truth lies; because he who has sincere love for the truth will be led by this love from the darkness of deception to the light of truth. One example is the holy apostle Paul. He was a sincere lover of the truth, devoted with all his soul to what he considered to be true, without any self-interest. Therefore, as soon as he was shown that the truth lay not in what he considered to be true, that very moment he cast aside the old—which proved to be untrue—and cleaved with all his heart to the new, which was tangibly proven to be the truth. The same occurs with every sincere lover of truth. The truth of Christ is clear as day: seek and ye shall find. Help from above is always ready for one who sincerely seeks. Therefore, if someone remains in the darkness of unbelief, it is only due to his love for that darkness, and for this he is already condemned.
Articles
 Venerable Joseph the HymnographerSaint Joseph the Hymnographer, “the sweet-voiced nightingale of the Church,” was born in Sicily in 816 into a pious Christian family. |
 Venerable George of Mt. Maleon in the PeloponnesusSaint George lived during the ninth century. His parents arranged a marriage for him, but he refused to marry the woman they had chosen. |
 Virginmartyr Pherbutha (Phermoutha) of Persia, with her sister and servantThe Holy Martyr Pherbutha (Phermoutha) and her sister and servants were martyred for Christ between the years 341 and 343. |
 Venerable Zosimas of PalestineSaint Zosimas was born near the end of the fifth century, and lived in a monastery by the Jordan River. |
 Venerable Joseph the Much-Ailing, of the Kiev Far CavesSaint Joseph the Much-Ailing lived during the fourteenth century. |
 St. Isidore the Bishop of SevilleSaint Isidore was born in the middle of the sixth century, and was related to the Visigoth royal family who converted to Orthodoxy from Arianism during his lifetime. |
 Venerable Theonas the Archbishop of ThessalonicaSaint Theonas was a disciple of Saint James of Kastoria (November 1), and lived at the beginning of the sixteenth century. |
