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17th Week after Pentecost. Tone 7.
No fast.

Совершается служба с полиелеемHoly Apostle Thomas (1st c.).

New Hiero-confessor, Michael Soyuzov, archpriest, of Kronstadt (1922).

Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “O All-Hymned Mother.”

St. Cindeus of Cyprus, monk. Virgin-martyr Faith at Agen (Gaul) (3rd c.). New Monk-martyr Macarius of St. Anne’s Skete, Mt. Athos, at Prusa in Bithynia (1590).

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

Saturday. [II Cor. 1:8-11; Luke 5:27-32]

   I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. What a consolation for sinners! But it is necessary to leave sins and do only good; and when doing good, to continue to call oneself a sinner not only on the tongue, but in the heart. Do not sin, but as a true sinner repent and call to the Lord for forgiveness. When you will be disposed in such a way, it means that you stand in the truth; as soon as you give way to self-righteousness and start considering yourself sinless, know, that you are turning aside from the right path and have headed toward those for whom there is no salvation. How we can combine a proper life with feelings of sinfulness is something only scribes ask. They write, but do not do. For the one who follows the path of action this is so clear that he cannot understand how it could be any other way.

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