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7th Week after Pascha. Tone 6.
Fast Day.
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Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомApostles Carpus of the Seventy and Alphaeus (1st c.). Совершается служба на шестьNew Martyr George the New, of Kratovo (Sofia) (1515).

Martyrs Abercius and Helen, children of Apostle Alphaeus (1st c.). Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомSt. Dodo of Gareji, Georgia (596). St. John the Confessor, of Psycha on the Bosphorus (9th c.). Uncovering of the relics of St. Macarius, founder of Kalyazin Monastery (1521).

Tabynsk Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.

St. Augustine, archbishop of Canterbury, evangelizer of England (ca. 605). St. Synesius, bishop of Carpasia on Cyprus (5th c.). New Martyr Alexander of Thessalonica, at Smyrna (1794). New Hieromartyrs Milan Banjac and Milan Golubovic, of Drvar, Serbia (1941-1945).

Repose of Archimandrite George (Kapsanis) of Gregoriou (2014).

Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By St. Theophan the Recluse

St. Theophan the Recluse

Wednesday. [Acts 23:1–11; John 16:15–23]

  The Lord says to the holy apostles before His sufferings: A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me (John 16:16). The Lord’s sufferings and death so struck the holy apostles that the eyes of their mind became dim, and they no longer saw the Lord as the Lord The light was hidden, and they sat in a bitter and wearisome darkness. The light of Christ’s resurrection dispersed this darkness—and they again saw the Lord. Thus the Lord Himself explained His words: ye shall weep, He said, and lament, but the world shall rejoice; and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy (John 16:20). It is said that every soul on the way to perfection experiences a similar defeat. Universal darkness covers it, and it does not know where to go; but the Lord comes, and changes its sorrow into joy. It is truly as necessary as it is for a woman to suffer before a man be born of her into the world. Can’t we conclude from this that he who has not experienced this has not yet given birth to a real Christian within himself?

Articles

Apostle Carpus of the Seventy

He was bishop of Verria in Macedonia.

Venerable Macarius the Abbot and Wonderworker of Kalyazin

The boyar Ivan Kolyaga, to whom the nearby lands belonged, began to fear that a monastery would grow up there, and that monks would begin to cultivate the wastelands. The Enemy of our salvation planted such spite and enmity in the boyar, that he decided to kill the saint.

Holy Hierarch Augustine, Archbishop of Canterbury

Dmitry Lapa

Together with St. Gregory the Dialogist (Gregory the Great, according to the Western tradition), the Pope of Rome, St. Augustine (also Austin) is venerated as “the Apostle of the English”.

St. Augustine of Canterbury, Evangelizer of England

Saint Augustine was from Italy, and a disciple of Saint Felix, Bishop of Messana. Saint Gregory Dialogus chose him to lead a mission of forty monks to evangelize the people of Britain. They arrived at Ebbsfleet in Kent in 597.
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