Martyrs Timothy the Reader and his wife Maura, of Antinoe in Egypt (ca. 286). St. Theodosius, abbot of the Kiev Caves Monastery and founder of coenobitic monasticism in Russia (1074).
St. Peter the Wonderworker, bishop of Argos (ca. 928). Translation of the Dormition Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos from Constantinople to the Kiev Caves Lavra (1073). St. Theophanes of Vatopedi, metropolitan of Peritheorion (14th c.). Schema-abbess Juliana (1393) and Schemanun Eupraxia (1394), of the Monastery of the Conception in Moscow. St. Gregory, bishop of Rostov and Yaroslavl (1416).
New Hieromartyr Vladimir Izvolsky, archpriest, of Manchuria (1930).
“Svensk” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1288).
Great-martyr Xenia the Wonderworker, of the Peloponnese (318). St. Ecumenius the Wonderworker, bishop of Tricca (4th c.). St. Mamai, catholicos of Georgia (744). Sts. Michael and Arsenius the Georgians (9th c.). St. Ansfried, bishop of Utrecht (1010). Martyr Paul of Vilnius, Lithuania (17th c.). New Martyr Achmed (Ahmet) the Calligrapher, at Constantinople (1682). St. Irodion, abbot, of Lainici Monastery (Romania) (1900). Martyrs Diodorus and Rhodopianus, deacon, at Aphrodisia in Anatolia (285-305). Finding of the relics of St. Luke of Mt. Steirion (953). Sts. Silas (1783), Paisius and Nathan (1784), monks of Putna Monastery (Moldova).
Thursday. [Acts 4:23–31; John 5:24–30]
And they shall come forth; they that
have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they
that have done evil, unto the resurrection of
damnation (John 5:29). This is how everything ends! As
each river flows into its own sea, so the flow of each of
our lives comes, at last, to a place according to its
nature. Those who will be resurrected unto life will also
be at the judgment; but the judgment will only seal their
justification, and determine their life, while the others
will be resurrected only to hear the condemnation of
eternal death. Their life and death are characterized even
now—because some do living deeds, while others do
dead and deadening deeds. Living deeds are those which are
done according to the commandments, with joy of the
spirit, unto the glory of God; dead deeds are those which
are done in opposition to the commandments with
forgetfulness of God, to please oneself and one’s
passions. Dead deeds are all which although in form may
not oppose the commandments, are done without any thought
about God and eternal salvation, according to some aspect
of self-love. God is life; only what contains part of Him
is alive. And so whoever has only dead and deadening deeds
is bound directly for death, and on the last day will come
out into the condemnation of death; but whoever has all
living deeds is bound for eternal life, and on the last
day will come and receive it.