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7th Week after Pascha. Tone 6.
Fast Day.
Fish, wine and oil allowed.

Afterfeast of the Ascension. Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомSt. Bessarion the Great, wonderworker, of Egypt (4th c.-5th c.). Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомSt. Hilarion the New, abbot, of the Dalmatian Monastery (845).

Virgin-martyrs Archelais, Thecla, and Susanna, beheaded at Salerno (293). Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомSt. Dodo of Gareji, Georgia (596). St. Jonah, bishop of Perm (1470). St. Jonah, founder of Klimets Monastery (Olonets) (1534).

New Hiero-confessor Raphael (Sheichenko), hieromonk of Optina Monastery (1957).

St. Justus, bishop of Alexandria (130). Martyrs Amandus, Amantius, Alexander, Lucius, Alexander, Alexandria, Donatus, and Peregrinus at Noviodunum (Niculitel) (320). St. Jarlath, first bishop of Tuam, founder of the monastery of Cluain Fois (Ireland) (ca. 540). St. Claudius of Besancon, Gaul (699).

Repose of Eldress Raisa of Serafimovich village near Volgograd (1957) and Schemanun Macaria of Temkino in the Smolensk region (1993).

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

Wednesday. [Acts 23:1–11; John 16:15–23]

  The Lord says to the holy apostles before His sufferings: A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me (John 16:16). The Lord’s sufferings and death so struck the holy apostles that the eyes of their mind became dim, and they no longer saw the Lord as the Lord The light was hidden, and they sat in a bitter and wearisome darkness. The light of Christ’s resurrection dispersed this darkness—and they again saw the Lord. Thus the Lord Himself explained His words: ye shall weep, He said, and lament, but the world shall rejoice; and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy (John 16:20). It is said that every soul on the way to perfection experiences a similar defeat. Universal darkness covers it, and it does not know where to go; but the Lord comes, and changes its sorrow into joy. It is truly as necessary as it is for a woman to suffer before a man be born of her into the world. Can’t we conclude from this that he who has not experienced this has not yet given birth to a real Christian within himself?

Articles

Venerable Bessarion the Wonderworker of Egypt

Saint Bessarion, Wonderworker of Egypt was an Egyptian. He was baptized while still in his youth, and he led a strict life, striving to preserve the grace given him during Baptism.

Venerable Hilarion the New, Abbot of the Dalmatian Monastery

Saint Hilarion the New was born of pious parents, Peter and Theodosia, who raised him in the virtues and instructed him in Holy Scripture. At twelve years of age Saint Hilarion was tonsured as a monk at the Hesychius monastery near Constantinople, and from there he transferred to the Dalmatus monastery, where he received the Great Schema and became a disciple of Saint Gregory the Dekapolite (November 20).

Virgin-martyrs Archelais, Thecla, and Susanna, beheaded at Salerno

The Holy Virgin Martyrs Archelais, Thekla and Susanna sought salvation in a small monastery near Rome.

St. Jonah the Bishop of Perm

After Saint Pitirim, Saint Jonah ascended the throne of Perm. He converted to Christianity the remaining part of Great Perm, i.e. the pagan tribes living along the Rivers Vishera, Kama, Chusova and others.

Venerable Jonah the Abbot of Klimetzk

Saint Jonah of Klimetzk, in the world John, became a monk, and founded the Klimetzk Trinity Monastery in fulfillment of a vow.
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