Tuesday October 28, 2025 / October 15, 2025 21st Week after Pentecost. Tone three. Venerable Euthymius the New of Thessalonica, monk of Mt. Athos (889). Martyr Lucian, presbyter of Greater Antioch (312). New Hieromartyr Simeon priest (1918). New Hieromartyr Valerian Novitsky, priest of Telyadovich (1930). New Hieromartyr Demetrius priest (1942). St. Athanasius (Sakharov) the
Awake From Dreamworld Wake up from the illusions of this life or you will find yourself in an eternal nightmare. #christianity #orthodox #weekend
Monday October 27, 2025 / October 14, 2025 21st Week after Pentecost. Tone three. Martyrs Nazarius, Gervase, Protase, and Celsus of Milan (1st c.). Venerable Parasceva (Petka) of Epibatima, Thrace, whose relics are in Iasi, Romania (11th c.). New Hieromartyr Michael priest (1921). St. Ambrose, bishop of Kamenets-Podolsk (1932). New Hieromartyr Peter priest (1937).
God’s Gifts of Fear & Pain “Both fear and pain are God’s gifts that He experiences together with each of us, in our very flesh, because God the Son became man. Why? So that we do not perish! God does not ordain pain as a consequence of our actions so
Sunday October 26, 2025 / October 13, 2025 20th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone three. Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council (787). Translation into Moscow of the Iveron Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1648). Martyrs Carpus, bishop at Thyateira, Papylus the deacon, Agathadorus, and Agathonica at Pergamus (251). New Hieromartyrs Innocent and Nicholas priests (1937). Returning of
Trinity of Falsity “There are three images in my mind which I must continually forsake and replace by better ones: the false image of God, the false image of my neighbours, and the false images of myself.” C. S. Lewis #God #neighbor #self
Saturday October 25, 2025 / October 12, 2025 20th Week after Pentecost. Tone two. Martyrs Probus, Tarachus, and Andronicus at Tarsus in Cilicia (304). Venerable Cosmas the Hymnographer, bishop of Maiuma (787). St. Euphrosyne (Mezenova) the Faster, schema-abbess of Siberia (1918). New Hieromartyr John (1930). New Hieromartyr John (Pommer) bishop of Riga (1934). Venerable Laurence
Gluttony Kills “My son, while you are still living, test your soul, and see what is bad for it, and do not give in to that. For not everything is profitable for everyone, and not every soul enjoys everything. Do not be gluttonous for every dainty food, and do not
Friday October 24, 2025 / October 11, 2025 20th Week after Pentecost. Tone two. Fast. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits) Holy Apostle Philip of the Seventy, one of the seven deacons (1st c.). Venerable Theophanes the Confessor and Hymnographer, bishop of Nicaea (850). Venerable Leonid of Optina (1841). Synaxis of the Saints
Endure & Inherit Joy “Tell me, what is more beautiful than a soul undergoing tribulation, which knows that by enduring it will inherit joy in all things?” Saint Symeon The New Theologian #soul #beautiful #endurance