Prophet Jeremiah (6th c. b.c.). St. Paphnutius, abbot, of Borovsk (1477).
Hieromartyr Batas, abbot, of Nisibis (4th c.). St. Tamara, queen of Georgia (1213). Hieromartyr Macarius, metropolitan of Kiev (1497). St. Gerasimus, founder of Boldino Monastery (Smolensk) (1554). New Monk-martyrs Euthymius (1814) and Ignatius (1814) and Acacius of Serres (1816), at Constantinople. St. Luke (Shvets), schemamonk of Glinsk Hermitage (1898).
New Hiero-confessor Tryphon of Svyatogorsk Monastery (1939).
“Unexpected Joy” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
St. Brieuc, abbot, in Brittany (ca. 502). Martyr Sigismund, king of Burgundy (524). St. Ultan, Irish missionary monk, of Burgh Castle (East Anglia), Fosse, and Peronne (Gaul) (680). New Monk-martyr Romanus of Raqqa (780). St. Michael, ascetic, of Chalcedon (8th c.-9th c.). St. Zosimas, bishop of Kumurdo (15th c.-16th c). St. Panaretus, bishop of Paphos on Cyprus (1791). St. Nicephorus of Chios, monk (1821). New Martyr Maria of Merambelos on Crete (1826). Martyr Philosophus at Alexandria (252). St. Isidora the Fool-for-Christ, of Tabennisi, Egypt (ca. 365).
Monday. [Acts 17:1–15; John 11:47–57]
What do we? for this man doeth many
miracles (John 11:47). Jewish erudition found the
Saviour to be guilty. And in our days, German
erudition[1]
finds what is supernatural to be out of place in the
Gospels of Christ: everything is good, only this [the
miraculous] just won’t work. These two ways of
thinking meet in the final analysis. Jewish erudition
decided: it is expedient that one man should die
(John 11:50), and that the rest might not perish, while
German erudition states: we will eliminate the
supernatural to preserve all the other Gospel truths.
And what came of this? The Jews destroyed their people,
while the Germans lost all Christian truths, and now
are left with almost nothing. The Lord is the
cornerstone of the house of salvation; similarly faith
in the supernatural is the cornerstone of the entire
building of God-inspired truth. The Saviour Himself, in
His Person, is the crown of the supernatural, and its
inexhaustible Source is in the Church. He who touches
this point is touching the apple of God’s
eye.
[1]
By “German erudition” St. Theophan is most
likely referring to the Protestant German philosophers
of his time.