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September 18 		Thursday
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October 1
18th Week after Pentecost. Tone 8.
No fast.

Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомAfterfeast of the Exaltation of the Cross. Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомSt. Eumenius, bishop of Gortyna on Crete (7th c.). St. Hilarion, elder, of Optina Monastery (1873).

Martyr Ariadne of Phrygia (2nd c.). Martyrs Sophia and Irene, of Egypt (3rd c.). Martyr Castor of Alexandria. St. Arcadius, bishop of Novgorod (1162). Martyrs Bidzina, Elizbar, and Shalva, princes of Ksani, Georgia (1660).

New Hieromartyrs Amphilochius (Skvortsov), bishop of Krasnoyarsk, John Vasiliev, archpriest, of Talozhnya (Tver), and Constantine Tverdislov, archpriest, of Vyazniki (Vladimir) (1937). Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Vladimir.

The Icon of the Mother of God known as "the Healer" (18th c.).

St. Romilus the Sinaite, of Ravanica (1375).

Repose of Blessed Irene of Zelenogorsk Monastery (18th c.).

Articles

St. Eumenius the Bishop of Gortyna

Saint Eumenius from the time of his youth was noted for his virtuous life. He strove to serve the One God and therefore he shunned worldly temptations.

St. Hilarion of Optina (1805-1873)

Olga Rozhneva

St. Hilarion was a skilled spiritual physician. He taught people who were suffering to go over their whole previous life from the age of seven, to recall forgotten unrepented sins, in which were often hidden the reason for a spiritual illness.

God Gives Prayer to Him Who Prays: Selected Sayings of St. Hilarion of Optina

St. Hilarion of Optina

In the pure writings of the Holy Fathers, we see that he who desires to cleanse his heart of the passions must call on the Lord for help—this is so. We cannot say the Jesus Prayer without our thoughts being plundered. With beginners, God does not demand undistract­ed prayer: it is acquired with much time and labor. As the writings of the Holy Fathers say: "God gives prayer to him who prays,” thus we must neverthe­less continue to pray, orally, and with the mind.

Martyr Ariadne of Phrygia

The Holy Martyr Ariadne was a servant of Tertillos, a city official of Promyssia (Phrygia) during the reign of the emperor Hadrian (117-161).

Martyr Sophia of Egypt

Saint Sophia endured martyrdom with Saints Castor and Irene in Alexandria.

Martyr Irene of Egypt

Saint Irene endured martyrdom with Saints Sophia and Castor in Alexandria.

Martyrs Bidzina, Elizbar, and Shalva, princes of Ksani, Georgia

Certain that they would receive no mercy from the shah, Georgia’s heroic liberators nevertheless set out for Persia without complaint. The shah received them with respect and generously bestowed gifts upon them, but then demanded that they renounce the Christian Faith.

“I Ask God to Help Me Be Saved”

Alexandra Kalinovskaya

On September 18/October 1, the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the feast of the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Land of Vladimir.

The Icon of the Mother of God known as "the Healer"

This was his Guardian Angel. Looking with compassion upon the ailing one, the angel called to the Most Holy Theotokos, raising up a prayer of healing. Suddenly the Theotokos Herself appeared and sent a sign of Her ineffable mercy.
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