Prophet Amos (8th c. b.c.). 
St. Jonah, metropolitan of Kiev, Moscow, and all Russia (1461).
Martyrs Vitus (Guy), Modestus, and Crescentia, at Lucania (ca. 303). Martyr Dulas of Cilicia (ca. 305-313). Blessed Jerome (Hieronymus) of Stridonium (419-420). Blessed Augustine, bishop of Hippo (430), and his mother St. Monica of Tagaste (387). St. Dulas the Passion-bearer, of Egypt (5th c.). Translation of the relics of St. Theodore the Sykeote, bishop of Anastasiopolis (ca. 9th c.). St. Michael, first metropolitan of Kiev (992). Great-martyr Tsar Lazar of Serbia (1389). St. Ephraim II, patriarch of Serbia (1395). St. Symeon, archbishop of Novgorod (1421). Sts. Sergius and Barbara of Oyatsk, monastics, parents of St. Alexander of Svir (1477-1480). Monk-martyrs Gregory, abbot, and Cassian, monk, of Avnezh Monastery (Vologda) (1524). St. Theophan, elder of the Roslavl Forests and Optina (1819). Synaxis of the Saints of the Pskov Caves Monastery.
“Marianica” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
Synaxis of the New Martyrs of Serbia. St. Cedronus, patriarch of Alexandria (107). Martyr Hesychius the Soldier, of Dorostolum, and two others, in Moesia (302). St. Orsiesius of Tabennisi, disciple of St. Pachomius the Great (ca. 380). St. Abraham, abbot, of Auvergne (Gaul) (477). St. Spyridon, patriarch of Serbia (1388). New Martyrs of Velic and Gornepolima (Serbia) killed by the Nazis (1943). Apostles Fortunatus, Achaicus, and Stephanas (1st c.).
Repose of Blessed Jonah, fool-for-Christ, of Peshnosha Monastery (1838), Metropolitan Innocent of Peking (1931), Elder Cosmas of Valaam and Riga (1968), and Elder Anthimus of St. Anne’s Skete, Mt. Athos (1996).
Fourth Sunday After Pentacost. [Rom. 6:18-23; Matt.
8:5-13]
What faith the centurion has! The Lord
Himself marvelled. The essence of this faith is that he
confessed the Lord to be the God of all things, an
all-powerful sovereign and master of all that exists; for
this reason he beseeched, speak the word only, and my
servant shall be healed. I believe that everything is
under Your authority and everything obeys Your slightest
beckoning. The Lord requires the same faith of us, as
well. He who has this faith knows no lack, and whatsoever
he asks, he receives. Thus has the Lord Himself promised.
Oh, when will we have if only a little of such faith! But
this faith is also a gift; we must ask for it as well, and
ask for it with faith. Let us ask for it, with a feeling
of need for it, ask for it continually, fervently, at the
same time aiding its unfolding within us through
corresponding thoughts, and most of all by submitting to
God’s commandments.
