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5th Week after Pascha.
Tone 4.
Fast Day. |
 Fish, wine and oil allowed.
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Martyr Isidore of Chios (251). 
St. Isidore, fool-for-Christ and wonderworker, of Rostov (1474).
Martyr Maximus, under Decius (ca. 250). St. Serapion the Sindonite, monk, of Egypt (5th c.). St. Nicetas, recluse, of the Kiev Caves, bishop of Novgorod (1108). St. Leontius, patriarch of Jerusalem (1175). St. Andrew, abbot of the Holy Trinity–St. Raphael Monastery (Tyumen) (1820). Uncovering of the relics of St. Tikhon, bishop of Voronezh, wonderworker of Zadonsk (1846).
New Hieromartyr Peter Rozhdestvin, archpriest, of Lanino (Ryazan) (1939). New Hiero-confessor Matthew, hieromonk, of Yaransk (1927).
St. Aprunculus, bishop of Langres, later of Clermont (ca. 488). Hieromartyr Therapontus, bishop of Cyprus (632). New Martyr Mark of Crete, at Smyrna (1643). New Martyr Raiko-John of Shumena, Bulgaria (1802). Sts. Alexander, Barbarus, and Acolythus, martyred at the Church of Holy Peace by the Sea, in Constantinople.
Commemoration of the martyrdom by the Poles of Abbot Anthony with 40 monks and 1,000 laymen of the St. Paisius of Uglich Monastery and Abbot Daniel with 30 monks and 200 laymen of the St. Nicholas Monastery (Kostroma) (1609).
Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By St. Theophan the Recluse
Friday. [Acts 15:5–34; John 10:17–28]
Ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep says the Lord to the unbelieving Jews. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me (John 10:26–7). Unbelievers are not of Christ’s fold. At that time, the unbelievers were those who had not yet entered into the fold; but now the unbelievers are all those who have fallen from the faith or who lag behind the fold of Christ. The Lord is the shepherd: all of His sheep go after Him, following His teaching and fulfilling His holy commandments. Sinners are sheep that are sick and weak, but still plod along together with the fold. But those who have lost the faith are those who have totally fallen behind, and have been abandoned to be eaten by wild beasts. These are the ones who are truly backward. They are not from the fold of Christ and they do not hear His voice; and He does not know them, because they do not let themselves be known as did the woman with the issue of blood. And at the judgment it will be said to them: I know you not, depart (cf. Matt. 25:12).
Articles
 Martyr MaximusThe Holy Martyr Maximus suffered under the emperor Decius (249-251). Maximus was a layman and a merchant. |
 Venerable Serapion of EgyptSaint Serapion lived during the fifth century in Egypt. He was called the linen cloth-wearer (Sindonite) since he wore only a coarse linen garb called a “sindon.” |
 Venerable Nikita of the Kiev Caves, Far Caves the Bishop of NovgorodSaint Nikita, Bishop of Novgorod, in his youth entered the Kiev Caves monastery and soon wished to become a hermit. |
 St. Leontius the Patriarch of JerusalemHis life was similarly described by Theodore, a monk of Constantinople. |
