St. Benedict of Nursia, abbot (543).
St. Euschemon, bishop of Lampsacus (9th c.). St. Rostislav-Michael, great prince of Kiev (1167). St. Theognostus, metropolitan of Kiev and Moscow (1353). St. Andrew, abbot, of the Holy Trinity Monastery in Rafailovo, Siberia (1820).
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of St. Theodore (“Feodorovskaya”) (Kostroma) (1613).
Martyr Eustathius and his company, at Carrhae, Mesopotamia (741).
Repose of Blessed John, fool-for-Christ, of Yurievets (1893).
Wednesday.
It is remarkable that Wisdom calls the
foolish to herself: Whoso is simple, let him turn in
hither (Prov. 9:4).[1]
Thus, the clever cannot enter into the house of Wisdom,
or the holy Church. Any cleverness must be laid aside
at the very entrance to this house. On the other hand,
if all wisdom and knowledge are only located inside the
house of Wisdom, then outside of this house, outside of
the holy Church there is only foolishness, ignorance
and blindness. How marvellous is God’s
institution! Leave your intellect behind upon entering
the Church, and you will become truly intelligent;
leave your independent activity and you will become
truly active; deny all of yourself and you will become
a true ruler over yourself. Oh, when will the world
comprehend this wisdom! But this wisdom is hidden from
the world. The world rebels against the wisdom of God
because it does not understand that it, and keeps those
foolish “clever ones” in its
blindness
[1]The
Slavonic for Prov. 9:4 reads Whoso is foolish, let
him turn in hither.