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September 20
15th Week after Pentecost. Saturday before the Exaltation of the Cross. Tone 5.
No fast.

Совершается служба на шестьForefeast of the Nativity of the Theotokos. Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомMartyr Sozon of Cilicia (304). Совершается служба со славословиемSt. John, archbishop and wonderworker, of Novgorod (1186). Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомHieromartyr Macarius of Kanev, archimandrite, of Obruch and Pinsk (1678). St. Macarius, elder, of Optina Monastery (1860).

Apostles Evodus (Euodias) (66) and Onesiphorus (67), of the Seventy. Martyr Eupsychius of Caesarea in Cappadocia (ca. 130). St. Luke and St. Peter the Cappadocian, abbots, of the monastery of the Deep Stream (10th c.). Sts. Alexander (Peresvet) and Andrew (Oslyabya), disciples of St. Sergius of Radonezh, who fought at the Battle of Kulikovo (1380). St. Serapion of Spaso-Eleazar Monastery, Pskov (1480)

New Hieromartyrs Eugene (Zernov), metropolitan of Nizhni- Novgorod, Leo (Yegorov), archimandrite, of the St. Alexander Nevsky Lavra, Nicholas (Ashchepev), abbot, of the Holy Trinity Selinginsk Monastery, Eugene (Vyzhva), abbot, of Zhitomir (Ukraine), Pachomius (Ionov), hieromonk of the Holy Trinity Skanov Monastery (Penza), and Stephen (Kreidich), priest, of Robchik (Bryansk) (1937). New Hieromartyr Vasily Sungurov, priest, of Shchelkovo (Moscow) (1937). New Hieromartyr John Maslovsky, priest, of Verkhne-Poltavka, Amur (1921).

Sts. Symeon (1476) and Amphilochius (1570), of Pangarati Monastery (Romania). St. Cloud (Clodoald), founder of Nogent-sur-Seine Monastery, near Paris (560). St. Cassia (Cassiana) the Hymnographer (9th c.).

Repose of Metropolitan Isidore (Nikolsky) of St. Petersburg (1892) and Archbishop Anatole (Kamensky) of Irkutsk (1925).

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. [I Cor. 4:17-5:5; Matt. 24:1-13]

   Because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. Love is destroyed by transgressions; the more sins, the less love. Where there is all sin, do not seek love. Therefore, he who seeks the spread of love and curtailment of lack of love ought to be concerned with decreasing sin and cutting short the sin-loving realm. This is the true foundation for humanism! Having taken up this work, one must use all means to oppose sin. External sins are the fruit of inner sinfulness. Inner sinfulness is rooted in egoism and its offspring. Consequently, humanists need to make it a rule for themselves to suppress egoism by all means; egoism is suppressed most forcefully by not allowing one’s own will. Do not allow yourself to have your own will, and soon you will overcome egoism. On the contrary, no matter what means you want to use against egoism, you won’t be able to do anything with it if you give freedom to your will. It would follow that wherever people seek their own little will, they are seeking an expansion of egoism and the waxing cold of love—and they are seeking the greater evil. Yet such is the spirit of the current time—and evil is growing.

Articles

Martyr Sozon of Cilicia

The Martyr Sozon, a native of Lykaonia, was a shepherd. He read the Holy Scriptures attentively, and he loved to share his knowledge about the One God with the shepherds who gathered together with him. He brought many to the faith in Christ and to Baptism.

St. John the Archbishop and Wonderworker of Novgorod

Saint John, Archbishop of Novgorod, was born at Novgorod of the pious parents Nicholas and Christina. He passed his childhood in quiet and peaceful surroundings.

To Jerusalem on a Demon

Valeria Mikhailova

As God did not desire to leave this man unknown in the fifteenth century, so in our times: Today St. John of Novgorod, longing for but one thing from his childhood—to be with Christ, is remembered and glorified in the Orthodox world.

Martyr Macarius the Archimandrite of Kanev and Pereyaslavl

The Hieromartyr Macarius of Kanev lived in the seventeenth century. This was a most terrible time for Orthodox Christians in western Rus.

St. Macarius of Optina (1788-1860)

Olga Rozhneva

On September 7/20 we celebrate the memory of the great Optina elder, Macarius. The saint’s life is deeply edifying for contemporary people. What kinds of lessons can we learn from the elder’s life?

Apostle Evodius (Euodias) of the Seventy

The Holy Apostle Evodius of the Seventy was, after the holy Apostle Peter, the first bishop in Syrian Antioch.

Apostle Onesiphorus of the Seventy

Saint Onesiphorus was bishop at Colophon (Asia Minor), and later at Corinth.

Venerable Serapion of Spaso-Eleazar Monastery, Pskov

Saint Serapion of Pskov was born at Yuriev (now Tartu), which then was under the rule of Germans, who sought to stamp out Orthodoxy. His parents were parishioners of a Russian church in the name of Saint Nicholas.

Holy Hieromartyrs Vasily Sungurov, Sergei Kudryavtsev, and Mikhail Nikologorsky

Priest Dimitry Vydumkin

The more Christians were persecuted, the more numerous they became. The persecuted Church did not disappear, as persecutors had planned, but was transformed into a flourishing Church.

Venerable Simeon Of Pângăraţi

Venerable Simeon was born at the beginning of the fifteenth century in a village close to Piatra Neamţ city, at the time of the pious ruler Prince Alexander the Kind (1400-1432).

Venerable Amphilochius of Pângăraţi

Holy Venerable Amphilochius from Pângăraţi was born in 1487, in Ţara de Sus, Moldavia. He began his monastic life in his youth at Moldoviţa Monastery, wherefrom he came to Pângăraţi in 1508.

The Hymn of Cassiani (with audio)

What made Theophilus say this to his prospective bride? Was he testing her humility? Was he testing her intellect? Was it he thrown too far off balance by Cassiani’s beauty to think of anything more romantic? And what made Cassiani make such a bold reply?
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