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August 5
8th Week after Pentecost. Tone 6.
Fast Day.
Wine and oil allowed.

Совершается служба с полиелеемIcon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Pochaev” (1675). Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомMartyrs Trophimus, Theophilus, and 13 others, in Lycia (284-305). Glorification of St. Theodore Ushakov, admiral of the Russian Navy (Glorification 2001).

Hieromartyr Apollinarius, first bishop of Ravenna (ca. 75).

Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “The Joy of All Who Sorrow” (with coins) of St. Petersburg (1888).

Righteous Anna (Hannah), mother of the Prophet Samuel (1100 b.c.). Martyr Apollonius, at Rome (183). Repose of St. John Cassian the Roman, abbot, of Marseilles (435). St. Anna of Leucadia (919). Commemoration of the Miraculous Appearance of the Mother of God at Pochaev, which saved the monastery from the assault of the Tatars and Turks (1675). St. Pelagia, nun, of Tinos (1834). St. John (Iacob) of Neamts, the Chozebite (1960). 250 martyrs killed by Bulgarians (802-811).

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

Friday. [I Cor. 11:8-22; Matt. 17:10-18]

Concerning John the Baptist the Lord said: Elias is come already, and they knew him not. Why was this? Because they did not heed the paths of God and were not interested in them: they had a different mentality, different tastes, different views on things. Outside the range of Divine things, their shrewdness was in play, but within this range they did not understand anything due to their estrangement from it. One’s inner mentality forms a feeling for things, which immediately notices and determines what is familiar to it, no matter how concealed it may be. An artist, scientist and economist look at one thing with equal attention, but each makes a judgment about it in his own way—one according to its beauty, the second according to causal relations, the third according to gains from it. So with the Jews: as was their disposition, so they judged about John, and then about the Saviour; but since they were disposed not according to God, they did not understand them, who carried out the work of God. Similarly, now people have begun to not understand the Forerunner and the Lord—and do with them what they like. A hidden persecution of Christianity has arisen, which has begun to openly break through, like recently in Paris. What was done there on a small scale, is what we must expect with time in big proportions…Save us, O Lord!

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