“If at some time you show mercy to someone, mercy will be shown to you. If you show compassion to one who is suffering (and of course, this is not a great deed) you will be numbered among the martyrs. If you forgive one who has insulted you, then not
Sunday August 23, 2026 / August 10, 2026 12th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone three.Dormition (Theotokos) Fast. Food with Oil Synaxis of saints of Valaam Monastery (movable holiday on the Sunday after August 6th).Holy Martyrs Archdeacon Laurence and Pope Sixtus, Felicissimus and Agapitus, deacons, and others with them (258).Blessed Laurence, fool-for-Christ at Kaluga (1515).New Hieromartyr Viacheslav priest (1918).New Hieromartyr
“The single-phrased Jesus Prayer destroys and consumes the deceits of the demons. For when we invoke Jesus, God and Son of God, constantly and tirelessly, He does not allow them to project in the mind’s mirror even the first hint of their infiltration, that is to say, their provocation, or
Saturday August 22, 2026 / August 9, 2026 12th Week after Pentecost. Tone two.Dormition (Theotokos) Fast. Food with Oil Apostle Matthias (63).Synaxis of All Saints of Solovki.St. Philaret, archbishop of Chernigov (1866).New Martyr Margaret (1918).Martyr Anthony of Alexandria.Venerable Psoes of Egypt (4th c.).Martyrs Julian, Marcian, John, James, Alexius, Demetrius, Photius (Phocas), Peter, Leontius, and Mary, of Constantinople (726).Venerable Macarius, abbot of Oredezh (1532).St. Alexis Medvedkov, archpriest of Uzine (1934).The
“To learn whether any particular actions of ours is contrary to God’s will, we must ask ourselves two questions: 1) Is the action I am planning to take contrary to belief in Christ or not? 2) Is it contrary to the Lord’s commandments?” Priest Daniel Sysoev #God #will #action
Friday August 21, 2026 / August 8, 2026 12th Week after Pentecost. Tone two.Dormition (Theotokos) Fast. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits) St. Emilian the Confessor, bishop of Cyzicus (820).St. Philaret of Ichalka, Ivanovo (1913).New Hieromartyr Joseph (1918).New Hieromartyr Nicholas priest (1937).New Hieromartyr Nicodemus (Krotov) archbishop of Kostroma and Galich
“Do not stir up a memory that will cover your prayer with mud, do not root around in the soil of your old sins. Do not be like the dog that returneth to his vomit (Proverbs 26:11). Do not let your memory linger on private matters that can reawaken your
Thursday August 20, 2026 / August 7, 2026 12th Week after Pentecost. Tone two.Dormition (Theotokos) Fast. By Monastic Charter: Food without Oil Martyr Dometius of Persia (363) and two disciples.Translation of the relics (1832) of St. Metrophanes, first bishop of Voronezh (1703).Venerable Anthony of Optina (1865).New Hieromartyrs Alexander, Peter, Michael, John, Demetrius and Alexis
“This, my son, is how you should begin your life according to God. You should continually and unceasingly call to mind all the blessings which God in His love has bestowed upon you in the past, and still bestows for the salvation of your soul. You must not let forgetfulness
Wednesday August 19, 2026 / August 6, 2026 12th Week after Pentecost. Tone two.Fast. Fish Allowed The Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord, God and Saviour Jesus Christ (Second “Feast of the Saviour” in August). New Hieromartyrs Dimitry (Lyubimov), archbishop of Gdov (1938) and Priest Nicholas Prozorov (1930), priest Andrew (Zimin), priest