Third Finding of the Precious Head of St. John the Baptist (ca. 850).
Hieromartyr Therapontus, bishop of Cyprus (4th c.). St. Innocent (Borisov), archbishop of Kherson (1857). St. Thaddeus, archimandrite, of Svatogorsk Monastery (1758).
New Martyr Tavrion (Tolokontsev), monk, of Veliki Ustiug (1939).
“Lesna” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1683).
St. Aldhelm, bishop of Sherborne (709). St. Bede the Venerable, hieromonk and chronicler, of Wearmouth and Jarrow (735). St. Gennadius, bishop of Astorga (ca. 936). Commemoration of the reunion of three million Uniates with the Orthodox Church at Vilnius in 1831. Martyrs of Adjara who suffered under the Turkish Yoke (18th c.). 1,290 New Martyrs of Piva (Montenegro), killed by the Nazis (1943). Synaxis of the New Martyrs of Chelm and Podlasie (Poland).
Repose of Recluse George of Zadonsk (1836).
The Sunday of Holy Pentacost. [Acts 2:1–11; John
7:37–52; 8:12]
The economy of our salvation is accomplished!
The operation of all the Persons of the Most Holy Trinity
have now come into effect to accomplish it. What God the
Father has willed, the Son of God fulfilled in Himself,
and the Holy Spirit has now descended in order to impart
it to the faithful. For our salvation is
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father,
through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and
sprinkling of the Blood of Jesus Christ (I Pet.
1:2). For this sake we are baptized in the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost,
obliged, to observe all things whatsoever I have
commanded you (Matt. 28:19–20). Those who do not
confess the Most Holy Trinity cannot participate in the
saving action of Its Persons and thus receive salvation.
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,
the Trinity one in essence and undivided, granting us
confession of Itself! “O Father Almighty, and Word,
and Spirit, one nature united in three Persons,
transcendent and extremely divine! Into Thee have we been
baptized, and Thee shall we bless throughout all
ages.”