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5th Week after Pascha. Tone 4.
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Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомRighteous Job the Long-suffering (ca. 2000-1500 b.c.).

Martyrs Barbarus the Soldier, Bacchus, Callimachus, and Dionysius, in Morea (ca. 362). Martyr Barbarus, a former robber, in Epirus (9th c.). St. Micah, disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh (1385). St. Job, abbot and wonderworker of Pochaev (1651).

St. Edbert, bishop of Lindisfarne (698). Translation of the relics of St. Sava I of Serbia (1238). Venerable Sinaites of Serbia: Romilus of Ravanica, Romanus of Djunisa, Sisoes of Sinai and Sisojevac, Martyrius of Rukumije, Gregory of Gornjak, Zosimas of Tuman, and Gregory of Sinai (Mt. Athos) (14th c.). St. Seraphim of Mt. Dombos (1602). Translation of the relics of St. Pachomius of Nerekhta (1675). Martyrs Cyria, Caleria [Valeria], and Marcia, of Caesarea in Palestine (304).

Repose of Archbishop Theophylactus (Lopatinsky) of Tver and Kashin, theologian and defender of Orthodoxy (1741), and slaying of Priest John Karastamatis of Santa Cruz (1985).

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

Monday. [Acts 12:12–17; John 8:42–51]

   What means, do you think, did the Lord use to explain to the Jews the reason for their not believing in Him? The means he used was to tell them the truth. And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not (John 8:45). The lie became, as it is said, their flesh and blood, and made them unable to receive the truth. Why do people not believe today? For the same reason; the Lord speaks the truth; this is why they do not believe. But how can this be? Are they not all scientists, and don’t they talk only about the truth? They have many words, but no deeds. They spin their systems as a spider spins its web, only they don’t notice the flimsiness. The principles of their systems are groundless, and their conclusions cannot be proved; but they are satisfied with them nevertheless. There has become such a demand for hypotheses that it seems they alone make up the entire content of their minds, and this is reputed to be solid education. They apply the fog of their dreams to the few facts they have procured; and these facts appear in this fog totally different from what they are in reality. Nevertheless, this is all reputed to be the sphere of immutable truth. So their mind has gone rotten, and its taste has been ruined! How can it contain the truth? And so they do not believe the Lord, Who speaks only the truth.

Articles

Righteous Job the Long-Suffering

The righteous Job, God’s faithful servant, was the perfect image of every virtue. The son of Zarah and Bossorha (Job 42), Job was a fifth-generation descendent of Abraham.

Martyrs Barbarus the Soldier, Bacchus, Callimachus, and Dionysius, in Morea

The Holy Martyrs Barbarus the Soldier, Bacchus, Callimachus and Dionysius lived during the fourth century and served in the army of the emperor Julian the Apostate.

Martyr Barbarus in Thessaly, who was a robber

The Holy Martyr Barbarus, formerly a robber, lived in Greece and for a long time he committed robberies, extortions and murders.

Venerable Micah the Disciple of the Venerable Sergius of Radonezh

Saint Micah of Radonezh was one of the first disciples of Saint Sergius of Radonezh, and lived with him in the same cell, and under his guidance he attained a high degree of spiritual perfection.

Venerable Job, Abbot and Wonderworker of Pochaev

Saint Job, Abbot and Wonderworker of Pochaev (in the world named Ivan Zhelezo), was born around 1551 in Pokutia in Galicia. At age ten he came to the Transfiguration Ugornits monastery, and at age twelve he received monastic tonsure with the name Job.

St. Job of Pochaev

'The Earth Cannot Imprison Him'—St. Sava of Serbia

"In creating the Serbian Church, he created the Serbian state and Serbian culture along with it. He brought peace to all the Balkan peoples, working for the good of all, for which he was venerated and loved by all on the Balkan peninsular. He gave a Christian soul to the people of Serbia, which survived the fall of the Serbian state."

Serbia Celebrates Sveti Sava

Saint Sava, known as the Illuminator, was a Serbian prince and Orthodox monk, the first Archbishop of the autocephalous Serbian Church, the founder of Serbian law, and a diplomat.

Life of Our Holy Father Sava I

This young child, Rastko, whose monastic name later was Sava, became and still remains the most beloved of all Serbian Orthodox saints, considered by all Serbs everywhere and at all times as the ultimate expression and example of what it means to be fully human, that is, what it means to be a devout and committed follower of Jesus Christ.

The Hagiorite Rastimir. St. Sava of Serbia and Rus’

In 1517, monk Isaiah brought to Moscow a comprehensive life of Sava, written at the turn of the thirteenth to fourteenth centuries by the monk Theodosius. We have more than eighty Russian copies of this extensive life that have survived, even in Serbian collections.
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