Hieromartyr Dorotheus, bishop of Tyre (ca. 362).
Martyrs Marcian, Nicander, Hyperechius, Apollonius, Leonides, Arius, Gorgias, Selenias, Irenaeus, and Pambo, of Egypt (ca. 305-311). St. Anubius, confessor and anchorite, of Scetis (4th c.). St. Theodore the Wonderworker, hermit, of the Jordan (6th c.). Abba Dorotheus of Gaza (ca. 620). Translation to Chernigov of the relics of the Blessed Igor-George, tonsured Gabriel, great prince of Chernigov and Kiev (1150). St. Constantine, metropolitan of Kiev (1159). St. Theodore Yaroslavich of Novgorod, brother of St. Alexander Nevsky (1233). Uncovering of the relics (1599) of Sts. Jonah and Bassia, monks, of Pertoma (Solovki) (1599).
New Hieromartyr Nicholas Riurikov, archpriest, of Vladimirskoye (Siberia) (1943).
St. Illidius (Allyre), bishop of Clermont (Gaul) (385). St. Dorotheus of Thebes (ca. 395). Hieromartyr Boniface (Wynfrith), archbishop of Mainz and enlightener of Germany, and those martyred with him, including St. Adalar, bishop of Erfurt (754). Martyr Sanctius (Sancho), soldier, at Cordoba (851). St. Dorotheus, abbot, at Chiliokama on the Black Sea (11th c.). St. Peter, monk, of Korisha, Serbia (1275). Sts. Agapius and Nicodemus, stewards of Vatopedi (14th c.). New Martyr Mark of Smyrna, on Chios (1801).
Tuesday. [Rom. 1:1–7, 13–17; Matt.
4:25–5:13]
After the Lord’s baptism, when the Spirit descended
upon Him in the form of a dove, He was brought down into
the wilderness to be tempted. Such is the path common to
all. Saint Issac the Syrian notes in one place that as
soon as you taste grace-filled consolation, or receive
some gift from the Lord—await temptations.
Temptations conceal the brightness of grace from
one’s own eyes which usually consume every good with
self-opinion and self-exultation. These temptations are
sometimes external—sorrows, humiliation; and
internal—passionate thoughts, which purposely are
released, like beasts unchained. Therefore, we must heed
ourselves and strictly sort out what occurs with us and in
us, to see why it is happening, and what obligations it
brings.