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Мученик Парамон Преподобный Акакий Синайский. Священномученик Авив, епископ Некресский
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December 12
29th Week after Pentecost. Tone 3.
Nativity Fast.
Monastic rule: cooked food, no oil.

Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомMartyrs Paramon and 370 others, at Bithynia (250). Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомMartyr Philoumenus of Ancyra, and with him Martyrs Valerian and Phaedrus (274). Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомSt. Acacius, who is mentioned in The Ladder (6th c.).

Hieromartyr Saturninus, first bishop of Toulouse (ca. 257). Hieromartyr Abibus, bishop of Nekresi in Georgia (6th c.). St. Nectarius the Obedient, of the Kiev Caves (12th c.).

Hieromartyr Dionysius, bishop of Corinth (182). St. Pitirim of Egypt, disciple of St. Anthony the Great (4th c.). St. Tiridates, king of Armenia (4th c.). St. Brendan of Birr (571). St. Radboud, bishop of Utrecht (917).

Repose of Blessed Abel “the Prophet,” of Valaam (1831).

Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By St. Theophan the Recluse

St. Theophan the Recluse

Wednesday. [II Tim. 4:9-22; Luke 20:1-8]

           The priests, scribes and elders did not believe in the Lord. In order to raise them up to faith He offered them a question: the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men? Reason about this without bias and your reasoning will bring you to faith. What is said about John’s appearing can be said about every event accompanying the Lord’s coming in the flesh, and about His very coming, and all that comes into contact with it. Let each person reason about all of this—the conclusion will be the same: “truly this was the Son of God.” Various thoughts can come, confusion can arise, what seems like incongruities can be encountered; but at the end of all investigations one universal conviction will come: that it is impossible to think any other way than as is shown in the Gospels and apostolic writings. Great is the mystery of godliness: God is manifest in the flesh (I Tim. 3:16).This remains a mystery, but it will be clear to the mind according to the moral necessity which the mind’s own investigation will apply to itself—to confess this way, and in no other way. Unbelievers either do not investigate at all as they ought, or they investigate superficially, with a mind alien to it, or they accept a wretched frame of mind that is opposed to what faith would require. The most insignificant refutation of the faith is enough for them, in order to justify their unbelief. The words of unbelievers shake believers, because believers are satisfied with simple faith, and do not seek clarification of the foundations of faith. Those words take them unawares; that is why they are shaken.

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