Commemoration of the Meeting of the Vladimir Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1395). Martyrs Adrian and Natalia and 23 companions, of Nicomedia (305-311). St. Maria of Diveyevo, fool-for-Christ (1931).
St. Adrian, founder of Ondrusov Monastery (Karelia) (1549). St. Adrian of Uglich (after 1504). Blessed Cyprian of Storozhev, former outlaw (16th c.). Finding of the relics of St. Bassian, schemamonk of Alatyr Monastery (1748). New Hieromartyr Nectarius (Trezvinsky), bishop of Yaransk (1937).
New Hiero-confessor Roman Medved, archpriest, of Moscow (1937).
The miraculous renewal of the Vladimir Icon of the Theotokos in Harbin (Manchuria) (1925).
St. Maximus, archbishop of Jerusalem (347). St. Tithoes of the Thebaid, disciple of St. Pachomius the Great (4th c.). St. Ibestion the Confessor, Egyptian ascetic (ca. 450). St. Zer-Jacob, missionary of Ethiopia. Monk Ioasaph, prince of India (4th c.)
Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost. [I Cor. 15:1-11; Matt.
19:16-26]
A rich man shall hardly enter into the Kingdom of
Heaven. Here is meant a rich man who sees in
his own self many methods and many powers unto his own
prosperity. But as soon as one who has many possessions
cuts off all attachment to them, extinguishes within
himself all reliance on them, and ceases to see them as
his substantial support, then in his heart he is the same
as one who possesses nothing—for thus is the road to
the kingdom open. Riches are then not only a hindrance,
but a help, for they provide the means for charitable
works. Riches are not the misfortune, but rather reliance
upon them and attachment to them. This thought can be
generalized in this way: whoever relies on something and
is attached to something is rich in that thing. Whoever
relies on God alone and cleaves to Him with all his heart
is rich in God, Whoever relies on something else turns his
heart to it instead of God—such a person is rich in
this other thing, but not in God. From this it follows
that he who is not rich in God has no entrance into the
kingdom of God. Here are meant such things as birth,
connections, mind, rank, circle of activities and so
forth.