Hieromartyr Hierotheus, bishop of Athens (1st c.). 
Uncovering of the relics (1595) of St. Gurias, first archbishop of Kazan, and St. Barsanuphius, bishop of Tver (1595). Synaxis of the Saints of Kazan.
Martyrs Gaius, Faustus, Eusebius, and Chaeremon, of Alexandria (3rd c.). Hieromartyr Peter of Capitolia, bishop of Bostra in Arabia (715). Martyrs Domnina and her daughters Berenice (Bernice) and Prosdoce, of Syria (302). Martyr Adauctus (ca. 312) and his daughter St. Callisthene (ca. 318), of Ephesus. Sts. Paul the Simple (ca. 339) and Ammon (350), of Egypt, disciples of St. Anthony the Great. St. Vladimir Yaroslavich, prince of Novgorod (1052), and his mother St. Anna of Novgorod (1050). Sts. Helladius and Onesimus of the Near Caves in Kiev (12th c.-13th c.). St. Ammon, recluse, of the Far Caves in Kiev (13th c.). St. Stephen Stiljanovic, despot of Srem, Serbia (1540) and his wife St. Helen (Elizabeth in monasticism) (ca. 1543). Sts. Jonah and Nectarius, monks, of Kazan (16th c.).
New Hieromartyrs Basil (Tsvetkov), archimandrite, of Stary Kelets (Ryazan) and Tikhon Arkhangelsky, archpriest, of Kuiman (Voronezh) (1937). New Hiero-confessor Barsanuphius (Yurchenko) of Kherson (1954).
St. Theodore the Wonderworker, bishop of Tamassos, Cyprus (2nd c.). Hieromartyr Peter of Capitolia, bishop of Bostra in Arabia (715). St. John (Lampadistes) of Cyprus (10th c.). Hieromartyr Evdemoz, catholicos of Georgia (1642).
Monday. [Phil. 2:12-16; Luke 6:24-30]
Woe to those who are rich, who are
full, who laugh, and who are praised. But good shall come
to those who endure every wrongful accusation, beating,
robbery, or compulsory difficulty. This is completely
opposite to what people usually think and feel! The
thoughts of God are as far from human thoughts as heaven
is from the earth. How else could it be? We are in exile;
and it is not remarkable for those in exile to be offended
and insulted. We are under a penance; the penance consists
of deprivations and labours. We are sick; and most useful
for the sick are bitter medicines. The Saviour Himself all
of His life did not have a place to lay His head, and He
finished his life on the cross—why should his
followers have a better lot? The Spirit of Christ is the
spirit of preparedness to suffer and bear good-naturedly
all that is sorrowful. Comfort, arrogance, splendour, and
ease are all foreign to its searching and tastes. Its path
lies in the fruitless, dreary desert. The model is the
forty-year wandering of the Israelites in the desert. Who
follows this path? Everyone who sees Canaan beyond the
desert, boiling over with milk and honey. During his
wandering he too receives manna, however not from the
earth, but from heaven; not bodily, but spiritually. All
the glory is within.
