Filled With Wonder “If you wish to gain delight in reading texts and understand the words of the Spirit you utter, brush aside the quantity and number of verses, so that your mind could be absorbed in studying the words of the Spirit, until, filled with wonder at the Divine
Category: The Morning Offering
Saturday July 19, 2025 / July 6, 2025 6th Week after Pentecost. Tone four. Synaxis of All Saints of Radonezh. Venerable Sisoes the Great of Egypt (429). New Hieromartyr Simon, bishop of Ufa (1921). New Martyr Euthymius (1931). New Martyr Theodore (1943). Venerable Sisoes of the Kiev Caves (13th c.). Uncovering of the relics of
“When we call upon the Saints in prayer, if we pronounce their names from the heart, it already means that we bring them near our heart itself. Therefore ask their prayers and intercession undoubtingly for yourself. They will hear you, and will speedily lay your prayers before the Lord, in
Friday July 18, 2025 / July 5, 2025 6th Week after Pentecost. Tone four. Fast. Food with Oil Venerable Athanasius of Mt. Athos (1003) and his six disciples. Uncovering of the relics (1422) of Venerable Sergius of Radonezh (1392). New Hieromartyr Gennadius priest, Martyrdom of St. Elizabeth Romanov and Nun Barbara (1918). Venerable Agapitus, confessor (1936). Martyr Anna at
No Enemies Among Men “It is joyful to feel that we do not and cannot have any enemies among men, but only unhappy brethren, who are deserving of pity and help, even when, through misunderstanding, they become our enemies and fight against us. Woe! They do not understand that the
Thursday July 17, 2025 / July 4, 2025 6th Week after Pentecost. Tone four. Holy Royal Martyrs of Russia: Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarit-sa Alexandra, Crown Prince Alexis, and Grand-duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia, and those martyred with them (1918). St. Andrew, archbishop of Crete (712-726). Venerable Martha, mother of St. Symeon Stylites the
A True Hope “If a man has no worries about himself at all for the sake of love toward God and the working of good deeds, knowing that God is taking care of him, this is a true and wise hope. But if a man takes care of his own
Wednesday July 16, 2025 / July 3, 2025 6th Week after Pentecost. Tone four. Fast. Food with Oil Martyr Hyacinth of Caesarea in Cappadocia. Translation of the relics (1652) of Hieromartyr Philip, metropolitan of Moscow (1569). New Hieromartyr Anthony, archbishop of Archangelsk (1931). Uncovering of the relics of Sylvester, bishop of Omsk (2005).
Noetic Death “Do not forsake prayer, for just as the body becomes weak when it is deprived of food, so also the soul when it is deprived of prayer draws nigh to weakness and noetic death.” Saint Gennadius of Constantinople #prayer #soul #food
Tuesday July 15, 2025 / July 2, 2025 6th Week after Pentecost. Tone four. The Placing of the Honorable Robe of the Most Holy Theotokos at Blachernae (5th c.). St. Photius, metropolitan of Kiev (1431). St. Juvenal, patriarch of Jerusalem (458). “Pozai” (17th c.), “Theodotiev” (1487) and “Akhtyr” (1739) Icons of the Most Holy