St. Mark the Confessor, bishop of Arethusa, and with him Hieromartyr Cyril, deacon, of Heliopolis, and others, who suffered under Julian the Apostate (ca. 363).
St. John, hermit of Egypt (4th c.). St. Eustasius, abbot, of Luxeuil (9th c.). Sts. Mark (15th c.) and Jonah (1480) of the Pskov Caves Monastery. St. Nicetas, desert-dweller of the Roslavl Forests, near Bryansk (1793).
New Hieromartyr Michael Viktorov, archpriest, of Boloshnevo (Ryazan) (1933). New Martyrs Priest Paul Voinarsky, and brothers Paul and Alexis Kiryan, of the Crimea (1919).
St. Diadochus, bishop of Photike in Epirus (ca. 486). St. Hesychius of Sinai (ca. 8th c.). St. Eustathius the Confessor, bishop of Kios in Bithynia (9th c.).
Thursday.
A haughty spirit goeth before a fall (Prov.
16:18).[1]
Therefore, do not allow evil thoughts to come in, and
there will be no falls. And yet what are people most
careless about? About their thoughts. They allow them
to seethe as much and however they like, not even
thinking to subdue them, or to direct them to rational
pursuits. Meanwhile, within this inner turmoil the
enemy approaches, places evil in the heart, seduces it
and inclines it toward evil. And the person
unnoticeably prepares himself for evil. It remains for
him to either carry out the evil fixed to his heart, or
to struggle with it. But this is our sorrow: that
almost nobody takes on the struggle; while all are led
to the evil as if bound.
[1]
The Slavonic for Prov. 16:18 reads: Evil thoughts go
before a fall. Probably St. Theophan used the
Slavonic version as he wrote, but the editor used the
Russian version, and so the editor added the words,
“evil thoughts” in parentheses in my
version of the text).