Friday October 10, 2025 / September 27, 2025 18th Week after Pentecost. Tone eight. Fast. Oil Allowed Martyr Callistratus and his company (49 Martyrs) of Carthage (304). Venerable Sabbatius, wonderworker of Solovki (1435). New Hieromartyr Demetrius priest (1918). New Hieromartyrs Herman bishop of Volsk and Michael priest (1919). Hieromartyr Peter, metropolitan of Krutitsa (1937).
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Thursday October 9, 2025 / September 26, 2025 18th Week after Pentecost. Tone eight. Repose of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian. Canonization of St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow (1989). New Hieromartyrs Athanasius, Alexander, Demetrius priests, martyrs John, Nicholas (1937). New Hieromartyr Vladimir priest (1939). Venerable Ephraim, abbot of Perekop, wonderworker of
Love Works “The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.” Saint Gregory the Great #love #work #orthodox
Wednesday October 8, 2025 / September 25, 2025 18th Week after Pentecost. Tone eight. Fast. Food with Oil 1Venerable Euphrosyne, nun, of Alexandria (445). 4Repose of Venerable Sergius, abbot, of Radonezh (1392). oSt. Nicholas confessor, priest (1941). oUncovering of the relics of New Hieromartyrs Alexander Smirnov and Theodore Lebedev priests (1985). 0Venerable Euphrosyne, nun,
Win Easily “Nothing else can help pacify anger and all the passions as much as love for God and for every fellow man. It is with love, rather than with other struggles, that you win easily.” Saint Joseph the Hesychast #God #love #anger
Tuesday October 7, 2025 / September 24, 2025 18th Week after Pentecost. Tone eight. Holy Protomartyr and Equal-to-the-Apostles Thecla of Iconium (1st c.). St. Gabriel, of Pskov-Eleazar Monastery and Kazan (1915). New Hieromartyr Basil deacon (1918). New Hieromartyrs Andrew and Paul priests, Hieromartyr Vitaly and Martyrs Basil, Sergius and Spiridon (1937). New Hieromartyr
Let The Light Into Your Soul “We must be attentive to our thoughts, our mouth, our ears, our five senses. When we are not careful of these, then we think others are at fault. When divine grace comes, repentance and tears follow. Then a person desires to lie down so
Monday October 6, 2025 / September 23, 2025 18th Week after Pentecost. Tone eight. The Conception of the Honorable, Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John. Canonization (1977) of St. Innocent Metropolitan of Moscow. New Hieromartyr John priest (1937). New Hieromartyr Arsenius archbishop (1937). Venerables Xanthippa and Polyxena (109), disciples of the Apostles, who died in Spain. Virgin-martyr Irais (Rhais) of
Sunday October 5, 2025 / September 22, 2025 17th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone eight. Prophet Jonah (9th c. B.C.). Hieromartyr Phocas, bishop of Sinope (117). Venerable Jonah the Presbyter (9th c.), father of St. Theophanes the Hymnographer and St. Theodore Graptus. Blessed Parasceve od Diveyevo (1915). New Martyr Benjamin bishop of Romanovsk (1930). Venerable Jonah, abbot of