(Photos: Fr Martin, guest Fr Theodore, Br Basil. Our monastery cats Nash, Wessin, and Tigger) Friday July 11, 2025 / June 28, 2025 5th Week after Pentecost. Tone three. Apostles’ (Peter & Paul) Fast. Food with Oil Translation of the relics (412) of the Holy and Wonderworking Unmercenaries Cyrus and John (311). Venerables Sergius and Herman (14th c.), abbots

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Thursday July 10, 2025 / June 27, 2025 5th Week after Pentecost. Tone three. Apostles’ (Peter & Paul) Fast. Food with Oil Venerable Sampson the Hospitable of Constantinople (530). St. Joanna the Myrrh-bearer (1st c.). New Hieromartyr Priest Gregory Nikolsky of Kuban (1918). New Hieromartyrs Alexander and Vladimir priests (1918). New Hieromartyr Peter priest

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Pure Simplicity “St Maximus the Confessor says that the Saints have attained to a pure simplicity, because they have overcome in themselves all duality and pretence. They have passed beyond the struggle between soul and body, between good intentions and works performed, between deceitful appearances and hidden thoughts, between what

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