Martyrs Terence, Africanus, Maximus, Pompeius, and 36 others, including Zeno, Alexander, and Theodore, at Carthage (ca. 249-251).
Hieromartyrs James, priest, and Azadanes and Abdicius, deacons, of Persia (ca. 380). Nun-martyr Anastasia, abbess, and 34 nuns with her, of Uglich (1609). New Hieromartyr Gregory V, patriarch of Constantinople (1821).
New Hieromartyr Flegont Pongilsky, archpriest, of Yaroslavl (1938).
Prophetess Huldah (Olda). St. Miltiades, pope of Rome (314). The Holy Martyrs of Kvabtakhevi Monastery (Georgia), who suffered during the invasion of Tamerlane (1386). Hieromartyr Misael, archbishop of Ryazan (1655). New Martyr George of Cyprus, at Acre (Palestine) (1753). New Martyr Demos of Smyrna (1763). New Monk-martyr Chrysanthus of Xenophontos, Mt. Athos (1821).
Consecration of Ioasaph (Bolotov) as Bishop of Kodiak, Alaska (1799).
Monday. [Acts 6:8–7:5, 47–60; John
4:46–54]
Saint Stephan says: The most High
dwelleth not in temples made with hands...What house will
ye build Me? saith the Lord or what is the place of My
rest? (Acts 7:48–49). Only the temple in the
heart not made with hands can contain God, as the Lord
said: If a man love Me, he will keep My words: and My
Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and make
our abode with him (John 14:23). How this is
accomplished is unfathomable for us, but it is true
because it is obvious that then it is God which worketh
in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure
(Phil. 2:13).[1]
Do not reason, just give your heart away to the Lord,
and He Himself will establish of it a church for
Himself—but give it unsparingly. If there are
parts which are not given, then from the heart a whole
church cannot be established, for one thing will be
decayed, another broken—and what will come out,
if anything comes out, is a church with holes or
without a roof, or without doors. It is not possible to
live in such a church: the Lord will not be in it. It
will only seem that it is a church, but in reality will
be a conglomerate mass.
[1]The
Slavonic for Phil 2:13 reads: God worketh in us both
desire and action, according to his good pleasure