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6th Week after Pascha. Tone 5.
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Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомApostle Andronicus of the Seventy and his fellow laborer St. Junia (1st c.).

Martyrs Solochon, Pamphamer, and Pamphalon, soldiers, at Chalcedon (284-305). St. Stephen the New, patriarch of Constantinople (893). St. Eudocia, in monasticism Euphrosyne, princess of Moscow (1407). St. Andronicus the Gravedigger, monk of the Zverinets Monastery (Kiev) (1096). Translation of the relics of St. Adrian, founder of Ondrusov Monastery (Karelia) (1551). St. Jonah Atamansky, archpriest, of Odessa (1924).

St. Melangell, virgin hermitess, of Pennant, Wales (6th c.). Sts. Nectarius (1550) and Theophanes (1544), of Meteora. Great-martyr Nicholas of Sofia (1555). St. Athanasius the New, bishop and wonderworker of Christianopolis (1735).

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

Saturday. [Acts 20:7–12; John 14:10–21]

   And whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, that will I do (John 14:13). What a consoling promise! But how few make use of it! People rarely keep this in mind. There are people who do not understand this at all, and do not accept it. Why is this so? Because they do not love the Lord, and they do not fulfil His commandments. This unfaithfulness of the heart toward the Lord relinquishes any boldness to petition the Lord, just as a lazy servant does not dare ask something of his masters, for he knows that he does not deserve any mercy. The established prayers are read in their usual course, and they contain very great petitions; but they are merely read, and this, as we well know, is far from prayer and petitioning. We cannot stand with true prayer before the Lord and extend our petitions to Him until our conscience is clear before Him.

Articles

Apostle Andronicus of the Seventy

Saint Andronicus Apostle of the Seventy and Saint Junia were relatives of the holy Apostle Paul. They labored much, preaching the Gospel to pagans.

Martyrs Solochon, Pamphamer, and Pamphalon, soldiers, at Chalcedon

Saint Solochon, a native of Egypt, suffered for Christ during the reign of the emperor Maximian (284-305). The holy martyrs Pamphamirus and Pamphalon also gave their lives for Christ at the same time.

St. Stephen the Archbishop of Constantinople

Saint Stephen, Patriarch of Constantinople, was the younger son of Emperor Basil the Macedonian, and was a brother of Emperor Leo the Wise.

St. Euphrosyne of Moscow—A Pillar of Strength in Times of Trouble

In view of Moscow's ascendancy as leader of Russia, it was a favorable marriage, but the young princess was not to be envied. These were turbulent times for the grand duchy, as one crisis spilled into another: Moscow was swept by a plague, ravaged by fire, besieged by the Lithuanians, engaged in a protracted war with Tver, and constantly at the mercy of the Tartars.

St. Eudokia, in Monasticism Euphrosyne, the Grand Duchess of Moscow

Saint Euphrosyne, in the world Eudokia, was the daughter of the Suzdal prince Demetrius Constantovich (+ 1383), and from 1367 was the wife of the Moscow Great Prince Demetrius of the Don. After raising five sons (a sixth died in infancy), the princess was tonsured as a nun with the name Euphrosyne.

A Second Saint John of Kronstadt, Priest Jonah Atamansky of Odessa

Saint John of Kronstadt often said to those from the south: "Why have you bothered to come all this way to see me when you have a man of prayer in Father Jonah?"

Melangell With A Thousand Angels

Nun Nectaria (McLees)

Little known outside Wales and Great Britain, the secluded Welsh shrine of St. Melangel, deep in the Berwyn Mountains, is dedicated to a sixth-century Irishwoman, an anchorite who lived here for many years, alone and unknown. An early Christian treasure, it is the oldest existing Romanesque shrine in northern Europe.
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