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3rd Week after Pentecost.
Tone 1.
Fast of the Holy Apostles. |
 Monastic rule: xerophagy (bread, uncooked fruits and vegetables).
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Virginmartyr Theodosia of Constantinople (730). 
Blessed John of Ustiug, fool-for-Christ (1494). Uncovering of the relics of St. Job ( Joshua in schema) of Anzersk Island (Solovki) (2000).
Virgin-martyr Theodosia of Tyre (ca. 307-308). Commemoration of the First Ecumenical Council (325). Righteous John and Mary, of Ustiug (13th c.).
New Hiero-confessor Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky), archbishop of Simferopol (1961).
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Surety of Sinners,” in Moscow.
Martyrs Cyril, child Carellus, Primolus, Phinodus, Venustus, Gissinus, Alexander, Tredentius, and Jocunda, at Caesarea in Cappadocia (253-259). St. Alexander, patriarch of Alexandria (328). Sts. John, Votus, and Felix, hermits in the Pyrenees (ca. 750). Blessed Constantine XI, last Byzantine emperor, martyred by the Turks (1453). New Martyr Andrew of Chios (1465). New Martyr John (or Nannus), at Smyrna (1802). New Hieromartyr Euthymius (Agritellis), bishop of Zela (Pontus) (1921). Hieromartyr Olbian, bishop of Anaea, and his disciples, in the province of Asia in Asia Minor (284-303).
Repose of Schemamonk Michael of Valaam (1854) and Nun Dorothea of Sukhotin Monastery (1885).
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. 7:1-13; Matt. 9:36-10:8]
Sending the holy apostles to preach, the Lord commanded them to call everyone, saying, The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, that is the Kingdom has come—go to it. What ought we to preach? We should cry to all, “sons of the kingdom! Do not run from the kingdom into bondage and slavery,” because they are running. Some are captivated by freedom of mind. They say, “we don’t want the bonds of faith and oppression of authority, even Divine authority; we will figure things out and make up our minds for ourselves.” So they made up their minds. They built fables in which there is more childishness than in the mythology of the Greeks—and they magnify themselves… Others are enticed by the broad path of the passions. They say, “we don’t want to know positive commandments, nor the demands of conscience—this is all abstract: we need tangible naturalness.” And they have gone after it. What has come of it? They have bowed down before dumb beasts. Has not the theory that man originated from animals arisen from this moral fall? This is where they have gone! And everyone runs from the Lord, everyone runs…
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 Virginmartyr Theodosia the Nun of ConstantinopleThe Virgin Martyr Theodosia of Constantinople lived during the eighth century. She was born in answer to the fervent prayers of her parents. |
