St. George the Confessor, bishop of Mytilene (820).
Martyr Calliopus, at Pompeiopolis in Cilicia (304). Hieromartyr Rufinus, deacon, and Martyrs Aquilina and 200 soldiers, at Sinope (ca. 310). St. Daniel of Pereyaslavl, founder of St. Daniel Monastery (1540). St. Serapion the Sindonite, monk, of Egypt (V). St. Nilus, founder of Sora Skete (Belozersk) (1508). Uncovering of the relics of St. Serapion, archbishop of Novgorod (1517). St. Gabriel, archbishop of Ryazan and Zaraisk (1862).
New Hieromartyr Arcadius Dobronravov, archpriest, of Tsivilsk (Chuvashia) (1933).
St. Hegesippus the Chronicler, of Palestine (ca. 180). Venerable Brynach of Wales (6th c.). St. George, patriarch of Jerusalem (807). St. Gerasimus, hieromonk, of Patmos (1739).
Repose of Schemamonk Theodore of Svir (1822) and Schemamonk Agapitus the Blind, of Valaam (1905).
Tuesday.
Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also
shall cry himself, but shall not be heard (Prov.
21:13). And we often marvel why God does not listen to our
prayers? Here is the reason! Because there surely have
been instances when we have stopped our ears from hearing
the entreaties of the needy; so the Lord does not hear us
either. It is no great woe if a prayer about something
temporal is not heard; but how woeful if the Lord will not
listen to us when we start to pray to Him about the
forgiveness of our sins. He will not listen if the cry to
Him of those whom we have scorned is stronger than our
prayers. We must hurry to avert this extreme misfortune,
according to the example of Zaccheus, whose wise decision
caused the Lord to say, This day is salvation come to
this house (Luke 19:9).