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Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомSt. 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.).

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

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).

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