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June 10 		Sunday
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Pentecost—Trinity Sunday. Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Disciples. Tone 7.
No fast.

Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомHieromartyr Timothy, bishop of Prusa (ca. 361-363). Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомUncovering and translation of the relics of St. Basil, bishop of Ryazan (1609). Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомSynaxis of the Saints of Ryazan. Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомSt. John, metropolitan of Tobolsk and all Siberia (1715). Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомSynaxis of the Saints of Siberia. St. Tamar (Mardzhanishvili), schema-abbess of the St. Seraphim–Znamensky Skete (Moscow) (1936).

Martyr Alexander and Virgin-martyr Antonina, at Crodamon (ca. 313). St. Theophanes, monk, and St. Pansemne, former harlot, of Antioch (369). St. Bassian, bishop of Lodi in Lombardy (409). St. Silouan of the Far Caves in Kiev (13th c.-14th c.). Blessed Cosmas, fool-for-Christ, of Verkhoturye (1706).

“Lesna” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1683).

Martyrs of Adjara who suffered under the Turkish Yoke (18th c.). St. Asterius, bishop of Petra (4th c.). St. Canides, monk, of Cappadocia (ca. 460). 222 Chinese New Martyrs of the Boxer Uprising, at Beijing and other places: Hieromartyr Metrophanes Chang (Chang Tzi-tzung), his wife Tatiana, his sons John and Isaiah, Isaiah’s fiancée Maria, the church-school teachers Paul Wang and Ia Wen, and others (1900).

Repose of Elder Nahum of Solovki (1853) and Schemamonk Sergius of Valaam (1860).

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

The Sunday of Holy Pentacost. [Acts 2:1–11; John 7:37–52; 8:12]

  The economy of our salvation is accomplished! The operation of all the Persons of the Most Holy Trinity have now come into effect to accomplish it. What God the Father has willed, the Son of God fulfilled in Himself, and the Holy Spirit has now descended in order to impart it to the faithful. For our salvation is according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the Blood of Jesus Christ (I Pet. 1:2). For this sake we are baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, obliged, to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you (Matt. 28:19–20). Those who do not confess the Most Holy Trinity cannot participate in the saving action of Its Persons and thus receive salvation. Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, the Trinity one in essence and undivided, granting us confession of Itself! “O Father Almighty, and Word, and Spirit, one nature united in three Persons, transcendent and extremely divine! Into Thee have we been baptized, and Thee shall we bless throughout all ages.”

Articles

Hieromartyr Timothy the Bishop of Prusa

The Hieromartyr Timothy, Bishop of Prusa (Bithynia), received from the Lord the gift of wonderworking because of his purity and sanctity of life.

St Basil the Bishop of Ryazan

Synaxis of the Saints of Ryzan

St. John of Tobolsk

"Christian! Observe once and for all how the sunflower even on gloomy days pursues its circular course, following the sun with the unchanging love and attraction natural to it. Our sun, illuminating our path through this world, is the will of God; it does not always illuminate our path in life without clouds; often clear days are followed by gloomy ones: rain, wind, storms arise. But let our love for our Sun, the will of God, be so strong that we may continue, inseparably from it, even in days of misfortune and sorrow, like the sunflower on gloomy days, to navigate faultlessly on the sea of life, following the indications of the 'barometer' and 'compass' of the will of God, which leads us into the safe harbor of eternity."

Synaxis of the Saints of Siberia

Synaxis of the Saints of Siberia

Martyr Alexander and Virgin-martyr Antonina, at Crodamon

Sts Alexander and Antonina were martyred on May 3, 313. In the Prologue their memory is listed under June 10. The relics of the saints were transferred to Constantinople and placed in the Maximov monastery.

Venerable Theophanes of Antioch

Saint Theophanes of Antioch was the son of pagans. At a youthful age he entered into marriage, but after three years his wife died.

St. Bassian the Bishop of Lodi in Lombardy

Saint Bassian, Bishop of Lodi, was a friend of Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan (December 7). Saint Bassian’s father governed the Syracuse region (in Sicily) and he prepared his son to follow in his footsteps.
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