Martyrs Probus, Tarachus, and Andronicus, at Tarsus in Cilicia (304). St. Cosmas the Hymnographer, bishop of Maiuma (ca. 787).
Martyr Domnina of Anazarbus (286). St. Martin the Merciful, bishop of Tours (397). Sts. Amphilochius (1452), Macarius (1480), and Tarasius (1440), abbots, and Theodosius, monk (15th c.), of Glushitsa Monastery (Vologda), disciples of St. Dionysius of Glushitsa. Uncovering of the relics of St. Macarius of Zheltovodsk and Unzha (1671). Translation from Malta to Gatchina: of a Particle of the Life Giving Cross, the Filersk Icon of the Mother of God, and the relic of the Right Hand of John the Baptist (1799). St. Arsenius, archimandrite, of Svyatogorsk Monastery (1859). St. Euphrosyne (Mezenova) the Faster, schema-abbess, of Siberia (1918). Glorification of St. Philaret, archbishop of Chernigov (2009).
New Hieromartyr Lawrence (Levchenko), hieromonk, of Optina Monastery (1937). New Hiero-confessor Nicholas (Mogilevsky), metropolitan of Alma-Ata (1955).
“Jerusalem” (48) and “Kaluga” (1748) Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos.
Hieromartyr Maximilian, bishop of Noricum (284). St. Mobhi of Glasnevin (Ireland) (544). Martyr Edwin, king of Northumbria (633). St. Wilfrid, bishop of York (709). Translation of the relics of St. Sabbas the Sanctified from Rome to Jerusalem (1965). Virgin-martyr Anastasia of Rome (ca. 250). St. Theodotus, bishop of Ephesus. St. Jason, bishop of Damascus. St. Symeon the New Theologian [transferred from Great Lent, March 12] (1022). St. Theosebius the God-bearer, of Arsinoe on Cyprus.
Tuesday. [Col. 1:1-2, 7-11; Luke 8:1-3]
The Lord preaches, the women serve Him
from their substance, and are thus as participants in his
very preaching. It is not given to everyone to preach the
Gospels, but everyone can help spread them, and be
participants in this most important matter on the earth.
There were many such participants, both men and women, at
the time the holy apostles preached; and then at the time
of their successors, and finally, throughout the entire
history of the Church. Such participants exist to this
day. Our apostles in the Caucasus and in various areas of
Siberia labour zealously, suffering every need and
deprivation. They continue the work of the Lord and the
holy Apostles. Those men and women who send them help join
the ranks of the women who served the Lord, and become
worthy of equal recompense. The Lord said: He that
receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth Me (John 13:20).
This means that He equates Himself with the one who is
sent to preach; it would follow that He equates the
service rendered to his messengers with serving Him.
According to the law of His goodness and truth, the way a
person receives one determines the reward he will receive
(Matt. 10:41). This would seem to be sufficient incentive
to keep giving alms to help in the great work of preaching
of the Gospels.