Martyr Isidore of Chios (251). St. Isidore, fool-for-Christ and wonderworker, of Rostov (1474).
Martyr Maximus, under Decius (ca. 250). St. Serapion the Sindonite, monk, of Egypt (5th c.). St. Nicetas, recluse, of the Kiev Caves, bishop of Novgorod (1108). St. Leontius, patriarch of Jerusalem (1175). St. Andrew, abbot of the Holy Trinity–St. Raphael Monastery (Tyumen) (1820). Uncovering of the relics of St. Tikhon, bishop of Voronezh, wonderworker of Zadonsk (1846).
New Hieromartyr Peter Rozhdestvin, archpriest, of Lanino (Ryazan) (1939). New Hiero-confessor Matthew, hieromonk, of Yaransk (1927).
St. Aprunculus, bishop of Langres, later of Clermont (ca. 488). Hieromartyr Therapontus, bishop of Cyprus (632). New Martyr Mark of Crete, at Smyrna (1643). New Martyr Raiko-John of Shumena, Bulgaria (1802). Sts. Alexander, Barbarus, and Acolythus, martyred at the Church of Holy Peace by the Sea, in Constantinople.
Commemoration of the martyrdom by the Poles of Abbot Anthony with 40 monks and 1,000 laymen of the St. Paisius of Uglich Monastery and Abbot Daniel with 30 monks and 200 laymen of the St. Nicholas Monastery (Kostroma) (1609).
The Sunday of Holy Pentacost. [Acts 2:1–11; John
7:37–52; 8:12]
The economy of our salvation is accomplished!
The operation of all the Persons of the Most Holy Trinity
have now come into effect to accomplish it. What God the
Father has willed, the Son of God fulfilled in Himself,
and the Holy Spirit has now descended in order to impart
it to the faithful. For our salvation is
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father,
through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and
sprinkling of the Blood of Jesus Christ (I Pet.
1:2). For this sake we are baptized in the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost,
obliged, to observe all things whatsoever I have
commanded you (Matt. 28:19–20). Those who do not
confess the Most Holy Trinity cannot participate in the
saving action of Its Persons and thus receive salvation.
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,
the Trinity one in essence and undivided, granting us
confession of Itself! “O Father Almighty, and Word,
and Spirit, one nature united in three Persons,
transcendent and extremely divine! Into Thee have we been
baptized, and Thee shall we bless throughout all
ages.”