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August 11
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11th Week after Pentecost.
Tone 1.
Успенский пост. |
 Monastic rule: xerophagy (bread, uncooked fruits and vegetables).
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Holy Hieromartyr Archdeacon Euplus of Catania (304).
Virgin-martyr Susanna and those with her: Hieromartyrs Gaius, pope of Rome, and the priest Gabinus; Martyrs Maximus, Claudius and his wife Praepedigna, and their sons Alexander and Cuthias (295-296). Monk-martyrs Basil and Theodore, of the Kiev Caves (1098). St. Theodore (in monasticism Theodosius) of the Kiev Caves, prince of Ostrog in Volhynia (1483). St. John, recluse of Svyatogorsk Monastery (1867).
St. Taurinus, first bishop of Evreux, Gaul (2nd c.). St. Passarion, bishop in Palestine (428). St. Blaan, bishop of Bute, Scotland (ca. 590). St. Niphon, patriarch of Constantinople (1508). Commemoration of the Miracle of St. Spyridon on Corfu with the Hagarenes (1816). New Martyrs Anastasius of Asomaton and Demetrius of Lesbos, at Kasampa in Asia Minor (1816).
Repose of Archpriest Nicholas Guryanov of Talabsk Island, Pskov (2002).
Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By St. Theophan the Recluse
Wednesday. [II Cor. 3:4-11; Matt. 23:29-39]
How many mercies the Lord revealed to Jerusalem, (that is to the Jews). And, in the end, he was still forced to say, Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. It is well-known to all what the consequences of this were: the Jews to this day are homeless. Does not a similar thing occur with the soul? The Lord cares for it and gives it understanding in every way; an obedient soul walks the path indicated, but a disobedient soul remains in opposition to God’s calling. But the Lord does not abandon even this soul, and uses every means to bring it to reason. If stubbornness increases, God’s influence increases. But there is measure to everything. A soul becomes hardened, and the Lord, seeing that already there is nothing more that can be done with this soul, leaves it in the hands of its own fall, and it perishes, like pharaoh. Let anyone who is beset by passions learn the lesson from this that is he cannot continue indulging himself indefinitely without punishment. Is it not time to abandon those passions—not just to deny oneself occasionally, but to decisively turn away? Indeed, nobody can say when he will overstep the limit. Perhaps the end to God’s longsuffering is just around the corner.