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September 7
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13th Week after Pentecost.
Tone 3.
Fast Day. |
 Wine and oil allowed.
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Translation of the relics of Apostle Bartholomew from Anastasiopolis to Lipari (580). Holy Apostle Titus of the Seventy (1st c.).
St. Menas, patriarch of Constantinople (552). Sts. Barses (378) and Eulogius (ca. 386), bishops of Edessa, and St. Protogenes, bishop of Carrhae (ca. 387), confessors.
New Hieromartyr Moses (Kozhin), hieromonk of Solovki Monastery (1931).
Martyr Genesius of Arles (3rd c.). Sts. John the Cappadocian (520), and Epiphanius (535), patriarchs of Constantinople. St. Aredius of Limousin (Gaul) (591). St. Ebba the Elder, abbess, of Coldingham, Northumbria (683). St. John, bishop of Carpathos (7th c.). St. Gregory, abbot, of St. Martin Monastery in Utrecht (775). Translation of the relics of St. Hilda of Whitby (ca. 860). Synaxis of Hierarchs of Crete: Andrew, archbishop (740); Cyril (ca. 303) and Eumenius (7th c.), bishops of Gortyna.
Repose of Abbess Magdalene of Sevsk Convent (1848), Monk Benjamin of Valaam (1848), and Abbot Nikon (Vorobiev) of Gzhatsk (1963).
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. 9:12-10:7; Mark 3:20-27]
If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. While single-mindedness for sinful evil is the quality within us, the kingdom of darkness and sin is strong in us; but when God’s grace attracts to itself the part of the spirit held captive by sin, freeing it from captivity, then there occurs a division within: sin on the one side, good on the other. As soon as a person unites his consciousness and freedom with good as a result of this awakening, sin loses all support and starts to decay. Constancy in the good intention taken on and patience in labours completely thwart sin and destroy it. Then begins the kingdom of good within, and it remains until some evil thought steals in, and, attracting the will to itself, once again brings about divisions. Just give entrance to the sinful stirring which has arisen, unite with it and set it in action, and again good will begin to weaken, and evil will grow, until it destroys the good entirely. This is the nearly continuous history of the inner life of those who are weak-hearted and do not have a strong disposition.