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6th Week after Pentecost. Tone 4.
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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). St. Angelina (Brancovic), despotina of Serbia (16th c). 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.

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

Monday. [Rom. 16:17-24; Matt. 13:10-23]

   Why do many people not understand discussions about spiritual things? It is due to a thickening of their heart. When their heart is full of attachments to earthly things, it grows coarse, as is said, he grew fat, he grew thick, he waxed broad [Deut. 32:15]. In this state it gravitates downward like a heavy-weight, dragging and chaining the entire soul to the ground, together with the mind. Then, always churning in its circle of low objects, it becomes low in its thought and cannot soar up on high, like a bird weighed down with food. Churning there, it does not see the heavenly, and its entire disposition is against it… Heaven is an alien country to these people. Such a person has nothing within the sum total of his understanding and experience to which he could relate the heavenly, that he might be able to see it if only through a glass darkly [cf. Cor. 13:12]. That is why he won’t try to discuss it, nor does he wish to listen to others discussing it, and he won’t pick up any books written about it. Isn’t this why you’ll often find any number of secular magazines in people’s homes, but not a single spiritual periodical or book—not even the Gospels?

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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