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Прп. Ангелина Сербская Святые бессеребреники и чудотворцы Косма и Дамиан, в Риме пострадавшие Святитель Арсений Тверской
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3rd Sunday after Pentecost. Tone 2.
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Совершается служба на шестьHoly and Wonderworking Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian, martyrs, at Rome (284).

Martyr Potitus, at Naples (2nd c.). St. Peter the Patrician, monk, of Constantinople (854). Synaxis of St. Arsenius and All Saints of Tver (1483). St. Angelina (Brancovic), despotina of Serbia (16th c). Sts. Tikhon, Basil, and Nikon, monks of Sokolov (16th c.). Monk-martyrs Neophytus (2), Jonah (2), and Parthenius, of Lampsacus. Sunday of All Saints of Vologda. Sunday of All Saints of Pskov. Sunday of All Saints of Novgorod. Sunday of All Saints of Galicia. Sunday of All Saints of Poland. Sunday of All Saints of Odessa. Sunday of All Saints of Britain and Ireland. Sunday of All New Martyrs of the Turkish Yoke. Sunday of All Saints of Dorostolum. Sunday of All Saints of Belorussia. Sunday of All Saints of St. Petersburg and Ladoga. Sunday of All Saints of Udmurtia.

Sts. Julius and Aaron, protomartyrs of Wales, at Caerleon (ca. 304). St. Gallus, bishop of Clermont (551). St. Eparchius the Recluse, of Angouleme, Aquitaine (581). St. Servanus, apostle of Western Fife, East Scotland (6th c.). St. Basil, founder of the Monastery of the Deep Stream in Cappadocia (10th c.) Martyr Constantine the Wonderworker and those with him, of Cyprus (late 12th c.). St. Leontius, bishop of Radauti in Moldavia (1432). Second translation of the relics of St. John of Rila from Turnovo to Rila (1470). 25 Martyrs in Nicomedia.

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

Third Sunday After Pentacost. [Rom. 5:1-10; Matt. 6:22-33]

   If therefore thine eye be single[1] thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. Here the mind is called the eye, and the entire composition of the soul is called the body. Thus, when the mind is simple then it is light in the soul; when the mind is evil, then it is dark in the soul. What are a simple mind and an evil mind? A simple mind is one which accepts the word of God as is written, and is convinced beyond a doubt that all is indeed as is written. It has no deceit, no wavering, or hesitation. An evil mind is one which approaches the word of God with slyness, artful disputing, and questioning. It cannot directly believe, but subjects the word of God to its sophistry. It approaches the word not as a disciple, but as a judge and critic, to test something stated there, and then either scoffs at it, or says in a haughty manner, “Yes, not bad.” Such a mind has no firm tenets, because it clearly does not believe the word of God, and its own rationale is always unstable—today one way, tomorrow another. It has only wavering, confusion, questions without answers; everything is out of place with it, and it walks in the dark, fumbling its way. A simple mind sees everything clearly: every thing in it has a definite character, determined by the word of God. That is why every thing in it has its place, and it knows exactly how to behave with relation to things—it walks along open, visible roads, with complete assurance that they lead to the true goal.

[1]             In Church Slavonic, the text translates as, If thine eye be pure.

Articles

Holy Wonderworking Unmercenary Physicians Cosmas and Damian at Rome

The Holy Martyrs, Wonderworkers and Unmercenary Physicians Cosmas and Damian were born at Rome, brothers by birth, and physicians by profession. They suffered at Rome in the reign of the emperor Carinus (283-284).

Martyr Potitus at Naples

The Holy Martyr Potitus suffered under the emperor Antoninus Pius (reigned 138-161).

Venerable Peter of Constantinople

Saint Peter was born into a patrician family at Constantinople at the end of the eighth century. During the reign of the Byzantine emperor Nicephorus (802-811) Peter was commissioned as an officer and participated in the campaigns of the Greek army against Bulgaria. In one particular battle the emperor was mortally wounded, and Peter was one of many soldiers taken captive.

St Angelina of Serbia

Saint Angelina was the daughter of Prince George Skenderbeg of Albania. Her mother’s name is not known, but she raised her daughter in Christian piety and taught her to love God.

St Leontius of Radauti

Saint Leontius was born in Radauti, Moldavia in the fourteenth century. He was named Laurence when he received the monastic tonsure. In time he was found worthy of ordination to the holy priesthod, and founded a monastery near Radauti, which later became known as St Laurence’s Monastery.

Translation of the relics of the Venerable John of Rila from Trnovo to Rila

On October 19, 1238 the relics of St John of Rila were solemnly transferred to the new capital, Trnovo, and put in a church dedicated to the saint.

Repose of the Venerable John the Abbot of Rila

Saint John of Rila, the great spiritual ascetic of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and Heavenly Protector of the Bulgarian nation, was born in the year 876 in the village of Skrino in the Sredets district [now Sofia].

Let Us Sacredly Follow the Testament of St. John of Rila

St. Seraphim (Sobolev)

Our preservation of the Orthodox faith, or Church teaching, which is alien to all heresies and every kind of modernism, is the fount of all the ineffable mercies of God to us.

“Father’s Day”. The Feast of St. John of Rila, Bulgaria’s Heavenly Patron, in Rila Monastery

Yanina Alexeyeva

St. John of Rila spent the last twelve years of his life in the high hills of Rila in a tiny cave, but despite his solitude he became the founder of a great monastic brotherhood that would become the most important spiritual center in Bulgaria.
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