Forget About You “If you knew how quickly people would forget about you after your death, you will not seek in your life to please anyone but God.” Saint John Chrysostom #God #death #orthodox
Thursday October 30, 2025 / October 17, 2025 21st Week after Pentecost. Tone three. Prophet Hosea (Osee) (820 B.C.). Monk-martyr Andrew of Crete (767). New Hieromartyr Neophit and Anatolius priests, Martyrs Hyacinth and Callistus (1918). New Hieromartyr Archbishop Alexander (Shchukin) of Semipalatinsk (1937). Venerable Anthony, abbot, of Leokhonov (Novgorod) (1611). Holy Martyrs and Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian in
Zeal By Example “In our age of moral and spiritual decline, only the heroic example of righteous men and women is able to ignite a zeal for godly living in accordance with the Divine commandments.” Hieromonk Seraphim Rose #orthodox #heroic #moralstories
Wednesday October 29, 2025 / October 16, 2025 21st Week after Pentecost. Tone three. Fast Venerable Longinus the Centurion, who stood at the Cross of the Lord (1st c.). St. Gregory confessor, priest (1931). New Hieromartyr Eugene priest (1918). New Hieromartyr Alexis priest (1938). New Hieromartyr John priest (1942). Venerable Longinus the Gate-keeper of the
Do Not Believe Your Thoughts “Do not believe your thoughts, neither when they tell you that you are terrible, nor when they tell you that you are a saint.” Saint Paisios of Mount Athos #thoughts #believe #christian
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