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20th Week after Pentecost. Tone 2.
No fast.

Совершается служба с полиелеемHoly Apostle Thomas (1st c.).

New Hiero-confessor, Michael Soyuzov, archpriest, of Kronstadt (1922).

Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “O All-Hymned Mother.”

St. Cindeus of Cyprus, monk. Virgin-martyr Faith at Agen (Gaul) (3rd c.). New Monk-martyr Macarius of St. Anne’s Skete, Mt. Athos, at Prusa in Bithynia (1590).

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

Thursday. [Phil. 3:1-8; Luke 7:17-30]

   Saint John the Forerunner sends his disciples to ask the Lord: is He the One That should come? Or should they look for another? He did not ask this for himself but for his disciples, for he knew precisely who Jesus Christ was, being informed about this from heaven. The disciples sought an answer to this question not out of empty inquisitiveness, but out of a sincere desire to know the truth. To such as these there is no need to say much; the Lord does not speak, only indicates what had been accomplished by Him at that time. Divine deeds witnessed to His divinity. It was so obvious, that the questioners no longer questioned. This is the way it always is. The power of God lives in the Church; a sincere seeker of the truth immediately feels it and is sure of this truth. This sureness through experience puts an end to all questions and completely soothes. He who does not want to believe, and, having lost his faith, begins to seek in the Church and Christianity not the foundations of faith, but grounds to justify his unbelief, will find no indications satisfactory. He considers his unbelief well-grounded, although its foundations are petty and insignificant. His heart wants this—that is why it is all tolerable.

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