Prophet Amos (8th c. b.c.). 
St. Jonah, metropolitan of Kiev, Moscow, and all Russia (1461).
Martyrs Vitus (Guy), Modestus, and Crescentia, at Lucania (ca. 303). Martyr Dulas of Cilicia (ca. 305-313). Blessed Jerome (Hieronymus) of Stridonium (419-420). and his mother St. Monica of Tagaste (387). Blessed Augustine, bishop of Hippo (430), St. Dulas the Passion-bearer, of Egypt (5th c.). Translation of the relics of St. Theodore the Sykeote, bishop of Anastasiopolis (ca. 9th c.). St. Michael, first metropolitan of Kiev (992). Great-martyr Tsar Lazar of Serbia (1389). Monk-martyrs Gregory, abbot, and Cassian, monk, of Avnezh Monastery (Vologda) (1524). St. Ephraim II, patriarch of Serbia (1395). St. Symeon, archbishop of Novgorod (1421). Sts. Sergius and Barbara of Oyatsk, monastics, parents of St. Alexander of Svir (1477-1480). St. Theophan, elder of the Roslavl Forests and Optina (1819).
“Marianica” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
Synaxis of the New Martyrs of Serbia. St. Cedronus, patriarch of Alexandria (107). Martyr Hesychius the Soldier, of Dorostolum, and two others, in Moesia (302). St. Orsiesius of Tabennisi, disciple of St. Pachomius the Great (ca. 380). St. Abraham, abbot, of Auvergne (Gaul) (477). St. Spyridon, patriarch of Serbia (1388). New Martyrs of Velic and Gornepolima (Serbia) killed by the Nazis (1943). Apostles Fortunatus, Achaicus, and Stephanas (1st c.).
Repose of Blessed Jonah, fool-for-Christ, of Peshnosha Monastery (1838), Metropolitan Innocent of Peking (1931), Elder Cosmas of Valaam and Riga (1968), and Elder Anthimus of St. Anne’s Skete, Mt. Athos (1996).
Monday. [Rom. 2:28–3:18; Matt. 6:31–34;
7:9–11]
Take no thought (Matt.
6:31). Then how is one to live? We have to eat, drink, and
wear clothes. But the Saviour does not say, “do
nothing,” but rather, take no thought. Do not
weary yourself with care that consumes you both day and
night, and gives you not a moment of peace. Such care is a
sinful disease. It shows that a man is relying upon
himself and has forgotten God; that he has lost hope in
the Providence of God, wants to arrange everything for
himself solely by his own efforts, to procure all that is
necessary, and to preserve what he has procured by his own
means. He has become chained in his heart to his property,
and thinks to rest on as if it were a solid foundation.
Love of possessions has bound him and he only thinks of
how to get more into his hands. This mammon has replaced
God for him. Work by all means, but do not weary yourself
with evil cares. Hope for every success from God and
commit your lot into His hands. Accept all that you obtain
as a gift from the Lord’s hand, and wait with a firm
hope that He continue His generous giving. Know that if
God so desires, a rich man can lose all he has in one
minute. All is decay and dust. Is it worth it to weary
yourself for that? So, take no care!
