Thursday August 14, 2025 / August 1, 2025 10th Week after Pentecost. Tone eight. Dormition (Theotokos) Fast. By Monastic Charter: Food without Oil Beginning of the Dormition Fast. Procession of the Precious Wood of the Life-giving Cross of the Lord (1164) (First of the three “Feasts of the Saviour” in August). The Feast
Hate Sin “Whoever hates his sins will stop sinning; and whoever confesses them will receive remission. A man can not abandon the habit of sin if he does not first gain enmity toward sin, nor can he receive remission of sin without confession of sin. For the confession of sin
Wednesday August 13, 2025 / July 31, 2025 10th Week after Pentecost. Tone eight. Fast. Food with Oil Forefeast of the Procession of the Precious and Life-giving Cross of the Lord. Righteous Eudocimus of Cappadocia (9th c.). New Martyrs Benjamin, metropolitan of Petrograd, and those with him: Archimandrite Sergius and George and John of Petrograd
A Terrible Accident “A terrible accident has a power to awaken us to the realization of the existence of various calamities and dangers surrounding us, from which the Providence of God preserves us. At the same time it convincingly persuades us to acknowledge our own infirmity and weakness and to
Tuesday August 12, 2025 / July 30, 2025 10th Week after Pentecost. Tone eight. Eve of the Dormition Fast. Apostles Silas and Silvanus of the Seventy and those with them: Crescens, Epenetus, and Andronicus (1st c.). Martyr John the Soldier at Constantinople (4th c.). New Hiero-confessor Anatole II (Potapov, the “Younger”) of Optina (1922). New Hieromartyr John deacon (1918). Uncovering of
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Monday August 11, 2025 / July 29, 2025 10th Week after Pentecost. Tone eight. Martyr Callinicus of Gangra in Asia Minor (250). New Hieromartyrs Venerables Seraphim (Bogoslovsky) and Theognost (1921). New Hieromartyr Anatole (1930-1935). New Hieromartyr Alexis priest, and Martyr Pachomius (1938). Venerables Constantine and Cosmas, abbots of Kosinsk (Pskov) (13th c.). Martyr Daniel of Cherkassk
Alone To Gather Spend time with God on the mountain top so you can sail through the storms of life in the ship of salvation! #God #faith #family
Sunday August 10, 2025 / July 28, 2025 9th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone eight. Appearance of the “Smolensk” “Directress” Icon of the Mother of God brought from Constantinople in 1046. Holy Apostles of the Seventy and Deacons: Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, and Parmenas (1st c.). St. Pitirim, bishop of Tambov (1698). Synaxis of All Saints of Tambov. New Hieromartyr
Constant Confession? Can you confess too frequently? #orthodoxy #confession #truth “So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer