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2nd Week after Pentecost.
Tone 8.
Fast of the Holy Apostles. |
 Monastic rule: xerophagy (bread, uncooked fruits and vegetables).
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Hieromartyr Dorotheus, bishop of Tyre (ca. 362).
Martyrs Marcian, Nicander, Hyperechius, Apollonius, Leonides, Arius, Gorgias, Selenias, Irenaeus, and Pambo, of Egypt (ca. 305-311). St. Anubius, confessor and anchorite, of Scetis (4th c.). St. Theodore the Wonderworker, hermit, of the Jordan (6th c.). Abba Dorotheus of Gaza (ca. 620). Translation to Chernigov of the relics of the Blessed Igor-George, tonsured Gabriel, great prince of Chernigov and Kiev (1150). St. Constantine, metropolitan of Kiev (1159). St. Theodore Yaroslavich of Novgorod, brother of St. Alexander Nevsky (1233). Uncovering of the relics (1599) of Sts. Jonah and Bassia, monks, of Pertoma (Solovki) (1599). Sunday of All Saints of Palestine. Sunday of All Saints of Romania. Sunday of All Saints of Bulgaria. Sunday of All Saints of the Iberian Peninsula. Sunday of All Saints of the Czech Lands. Sunday of All Saints of America.
New Hieromartyr Nicholas Riurikov, archpriest, of Vladimirskoye (Siberia) (1943).
Kaluga Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1748). Holy Cross Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos at Budennovsk (Stavropol) (1995).
St. Illidius (Allyre), bishop of Clermont (Gaul) (385). St. Dorotheus of Thebes (ca. 395). Hieromartyr Boniface (Wynfrith), archbishop of Mainz and enlightener of Germany, and those martyred with him, including St. Adalar, bishop of Erfurt (754). Martyr Sanctius (Sancho), soldier, at Cordoba (851). St. Dorotheus, abbot, at Chiliokama on the Black Sea (11th c.). St. Peter, monk, of Korisha, Serbia (1275). Sts. Agapius and Nicodemus, stewards of Vatopedi (14th c.). New Martyr Mark of Smyrna, on Chios (1801).
Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By St. Theophan the Recluse
Wednesday. [Rom. 4:13–25; Matt. 7:21–23]
Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven (Matt. 7:21). You will not be saved through prayer alone; you must unite with prayer fulfilment of the will of God—all that lies upon each person according to his calling and way of life. And prayer should have as its subject primarily the request that God enable us not to depart in any way from His holy will. Conversely, he who is zealous to fulfil God’s will in all things has boldness in prayer before God and greater access to His throne. Moreover, prayer that is not accompanied by walking in God’s will is often not true, sober and heartfelt prayer, but only external reading, during which one’s moral dysfunction is concealed by a multitude of words like a mist, while the thoughts are actually disorderly and wandering. Both must be made orderly through piety, and then there will be fruit.
Articles
 Venerable Abba Dorotheus of PalestineThe Holy Abba Dorotheus was a disciple of Saint John the Prophet in the Palestinian monastery of Abba Seridus in the sixth century. |
 St. Peter of KorishaSaint Peter was born in 1211 in the village of Unjimir between the city of Pech and the Field of Kosovo. |