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11th Week after Pentecost.
Tone 1.
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 Monastic rule: xerophagy (bread, uncooked fruits and vegetables).
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Afterfeast of the Transfiguration. 
Martyr Dometius of Persia and two disciples (363). Uncovering of the relics of St. Metrophanes (Macarius in schema), bishop of Voronezh (1832). St. Anthony, elder, of Optina Monastery (1865).
Martyrs Marinus the Soldier and Asterius the Senator, at Caesarea in Palestine (260). St. Or of the Thebaid (ca. 390). Virgin Potamia of Alexandria (4th c.). St. Theodosius the New, of the Peloponnese, healer (9th c.-10th c.). St. Hierotheus, first bishop and enlightener of Hungary (10th c.). St. Stephen I, king of Hungary (1038). St. Pimen the Much-ailing, of the Kiev Caves (1110). St. Mercurius of the Near Caves in Kiev, bishop of Smolensk (1239). St. Pimen the Faster, of the Far Caves in Kiev (ca. 1141). St. Theodora of Sihla (Romania) (18th c.).
New Hieromartyrs Alexander Khotovitsky, protopresbyter, of New York and Moscow, Athanasius (Yegorov), abbot, of Izmailovo (Moscow), Alexis Vorobiev, archpriest, of Gorodok (Moscow), John Voronets, archpriest, of Smilovichi (Minsk), and Michael Plyshevsky, archpriest, of Shatsk (Minsk) (1937). New Hieromartyr Basil Amenitsky, archpriest, of Efimyevo (Vladimir) (1938).
Hieromartyr Narcissus, bishop of Jerusalem (ca. 213). Martyr Afra of Augsburg (ca. 304). St. Hyperechius of Egypt (4th c.). St. Victricius of Rouen (407-410). St. Nicanor, wonderworker, of Mt. Callistratus (1549). St. Dometius of Philotheou, Mt. Athos (16th c.). St. Joseph, monk of Kapsa Monastery on Crete (1874). Holy 10,000 Ascetics of the Thebaid. St. Sozon of Nicomedia. Holy Empresses Irene (803) and Pulcheria (453) of Constantinople.
Repose of Elder Adrian of South Dorotheus Monastery (1853), Schemamonk John the Silent, of Valaam (1894), Elder Callinicus the Hesychast, of Katounakia, Mt. Athos (1930), and Archimandrite Vladimir of Jordanville, New York (1988).
Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By St. Theophan the Recluse
Wednesday. [II Cor. 3:4-11; Matt. 23:29-39]
How many mercies the Lord revealed to Jerusalem, (that is to the Jews). And, in the end, he was still forced to say, Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. It is well-known to all what the consequences of this were: the Jews to this day are homeless. Does not a similar thing occur with the soul? The Lord cares for it and gives it understanding in every way; an obedient soul walks the path indicated, but a disobedient soul remains in opposition to God’s calling. But the Lord does not abandon even this soul, and uses every means to bring it to reason. If stubbornness increases, God’s influence increases. But there is measure to everything. A soul becomes hardened, and the Lord, seeing that already there is nothing more that can be done with this soul, leaves it in the hands of its own fall, and it perishes, like pharaoh. Let anyone who is beset by passions learn the lesson from this that is he cannot continue indulging himself indefinitely without punishment. Is it not time to abandon those passions—not just to deny oneself occasionally, but to decisively turn away? Indeed, nobody can say when he will overstep the limit. Perhaps the end to God’s longsuffering is just around the corner.
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