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Успенский пост.
Monastic rule: cooked food, no oil.

Afterfeast of the Transfiguration. Совершается служба с полиелеемHoly Apostle Matthias (ca. 63). Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомSynaxis of the Saints of Solovki.

St. Psoes of Egypt (4th c.). Martyrs Julian, Marcian, John, James, Alexis, Demetrius, Photius (Phocas), Peter, Leontius, Mary the patrician, and others, of Constantinople (730). Martyr Anthony of Alexandria. St. Macarius, founder of Oredezh Monastery (Novgorod) (1532). St. Philaret (Gumilevsky), archbishop of Chernigov (1866).

New Martyr Margarita (Gunaronulo), abbess of the Menzelinsk Convent of Prophet Elijah (Ufa) (1918).

Icon of the Savior “Not-Made-by- Hands” of Camuliana in Cappadocia (ca. 303).

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

Tuesday. [II Cor. 5:15-21; Mark 1:16-22]

   The Lord taught in the Capernaum synagogue, and everyone marvelled at His teaching: for He taught them as one that had authority, and not as the Scribes. This authority is not a commanding tone, but the power of influence on souls and hearts. His Word entered within, and bound itself to human consciences, showing that all was as He said. This is how a word which is imbued with Divine power, a word from the Spirit, or an anointed word always is. This is how it was with the holy apostles, and after them, with all influential teachers. They spoke not from learnedness, but as the spirit gave them the gift of prophesy. It is a gift of God which can only be acquired through labors to master it in one’s heart and life, and not just by learning. Wherever this occurs the word is imbued with cogency, because it moves from heart to heart; in this is the power of the word over souls. Scribes, speaking and writing from their learnedness, are not given such power, because they speak from their head and mix into their head their own philosophizing. Life is not found in the head, but only life’s surface. Life is in the heart, and only what comes forth from the heart can influence the currents of life.

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