St. Nicetas the Confessor, bishop of Chalcedon, with his kinsmen Sts. Nicetas and Ignatius (9th c.)
St. Ignatius, bishop and wonderworker of Rostov (1288). St. Helen (Manturova), nun of Diveyevo (1832).
Hieromartyr Eutychius, bishop of Melitene (1st c.). Martyr Heliconis of Thessalonica (244). St. Germanus, bishop of Paris (576). Hieromartyr Helladius, bishop (6th c.-7th c.). St. Gerontius, metropolitan of Moscow (1489). Blessed Domnica (Likvinenko), ascetic, of Kherson (1967).
New Hieromartyrs Macarius (Morzhov), hieromonk of Zosima Hermitage (Smolensk), and Dionysius (Petushkov), hieroschemamonk of the St. Nilus of Stolobny Hermitage (Tver) (1931). New Confessor Heraclius (Motyakh), schemamonk, of Turkistan (1936). New Hiero-confessor Rodion (Fyodorov), archimandrite, of the Holy Trinity–St. Sergius Lavra (1933).
Martyrs Crescens, Paul, and Dioscorides, of Rome (326). St. Alexander, bishop of Thessalonica (4th c.). St. William, monastic founder, of Gellone (Gaul) (812). St. Sophronius, monk, of Bulgaria (1510). New Martyr Mitros (Demetrius) of Tripolitsa (1794). Blessed Andrew, fool-for-Christ, of Constantinople (911) New Hieromartyr Zachariah, priest of Prusa (1802).
Monday. [Acts 17:1–15; John 11:47–57]
What do we? for this man doeth many
miracles (John 11:47). Jewish erudition found the
Saviour to be guilty. And in our days, German
erudition[1]
finds what is supernatural to be out of place in the
Gospels of Christ: everything is good, only this [the
miraculous] just won’t work. These two ways of
thinking meet in the final analysis. Jewish erudition
decided: it is expedient that one man should die
(John 11:50), and that the rest might not perish, while
German erudition states: we will eliminate the
supernatural to preserve all the other Gospel truths.
And what came of this? The Jews destroyed their people,
while the Germans lost all Christian truths, and now
are left with almost nothing. The Lord is the
cornerstone of the house of salvation; similarly faith
in the supernatural is the cornerstone of the entire
building of God-inspired truth. The Saviour Himself, in
His Person, is the crown of the supernatural, and its
inexhaustible Source is in the Church. He who touches
this point is touching the apple of God’s
eye.
[1]
By “German erudition” St. Theophan is most
likely referring to the Protestant German philosophers
of his time.