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11th Week after Pentecost.
Tone 1.
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 Monastic rule: cooked food, no oil.
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Afterfeast of the Transfiguration. 
Martyr Dometius of Persia and two disciples (363). Uncovering of the relics of St. Metrophanes (Macarius in schema), bishop of Voronezh (1832). St. Anthony, elder, of Optina Monastery (1865).
Martyrs Marinus the Soldier and Asterius the Senator, at Caesarea in Palestine (260). St. Or of the Thebaid (ca. 390). Virgin Potamia of Alexandria (4th c.). St. Theodosius the New, of the Peloponnese, healer (9th c.-10th c.). St. Pimen the Much-ailing, of the Kiev Caves (1110). St. Mercurius of the Near Caves in Kiev, bishop of Smolensk (1239). St. Pimen the Faster, of the Far Caves in Kiev (ca. 1141). St. Theodora of Sihla (Romania) (18th c.).
New Hieromartyrs Alexander Khotovitsky, protopresbyter, of New York and Moscow, and Athanasius (Yegorov), abbot, of Izmailovo (Moscow) (1937).
Hieromartyr Narcissus, bishop of Jerusalem (ca. 213). Martyr Afra of Augsburg (ca. 304). St. Hyperechius of Egypt (4th c.). St. Victricius of Rouen (407-410). St. Nicanor, wonderworker, of Mt. Callistratus (1549). St. Dometius of Philotheou, Mt. Athos (16th c.). St. Joseph, monk of Kapsa Monastery on Crete (1874). Holy 10,000 Ascetics of the Thebaid. St. Sozon of Nicomedia. Holy Empresses Irene (803) and Pulcheria (453) of Constantinople.
Repose of Elder Adrian of South Dorotheus Monastery (1853), Schemamonk John the Silent, of Valaam (1894), Elder Callinicus the Hesychast, of Katounakia, Mt. Athos (1930), and Archimandrite Vladimir of Jordanville, New York (1988).
Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By St. Theophan the Recluse
Thursday. [II Cor. 4:1-6; Matt. 24:13-28]
But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. However, not everyone who endures will be saved, but only he who endures on the Lord’s path. This life is given to us for that reason—to endure; everyone endures something, even through to the very end. But enduring does not lead to benefit if it is not for the sake of the Lord and His holy Gospels. Step onto the path of faith and the Gospel commandments; occasions to endure will multiply, but from that moment endurance will begin to bring forth crowns. That endurance, which before was empty, will be made fruitful. With what blindness does the enemy surround us, that only the endurance which is encountered on the path of good seems heavy and unbearable; but what he inflicts on those who serve the passions seems light and free, although it is actually heavier and more dismal than what people bear in struggling with the passions and opposing the enemy! But we are blind, and do not see this… We labour, endure, and strain ourselves to the breaking point for the sake of the enemy, and unto our own perdition.
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