Love Yourself In The Lord “God loves you the way you are, and He asks you to receive from Him grace and forgiveness so you can become the way your heart desires! Only He can forgive and cleanse you. Your hate toward yourself stains you. You need to ask the
Sunday October 19, 2025 / October 6, 2025 19th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone two. Holy and Glorious Apostle Thomas (1st c.). New Hieromartyr John priest (1937). Virgin-martyr Eroteis of Cappadocia. New Martyr Macarius at Kion in Bithynia (Mt. Athos) (1590) (Greek). Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “O All-Hymned Mother”. Venerable Cindeus of Cyprus, monk
Everything Is Your Cross “To take up your cross means to tolerate everything without complaining, regardless of how unpleasant things might become. …Do not consider yourself punished unjustly, but accept everything as your cross.” Saint Innocent of Alaska #Christian #cross #tolerance
Saturday October 18, 2025 / October 5, 2025 19th Week after Pentecost. Tone one. Martyr Charitina of Amisus (304). Sts. Peter (1326), Theognostus (1353), Alexis (1378), Cyprian (1406), Photius (1431), Jonah (1461), Gerontius (1489), loasaph (1555), Macarius (1563), Philip (1569), Job (1607), Hermogenes (Germogen) (1612), Tikhon (1925), Peter (1937), Philaret (1867), Innocent (Veniaminov) (1879),
Friday October 17, 2025 / October 4, 2025 19th Week after Pentecost. Tone one. Fast. Food with Oil Hieromartyr Hierotheus, bishop of Athens (1st c.). Uncovering of the relics (1595) of St. Gurias, first archbishop of Kazan (1563) and St. Barsanuphius, bishop of Tver (1576). Synaxis of All Saints of Kazan. New Hieromartyr Demetrius priest (1918).
Live Simply “Live simply and without thinking too much, like a child with his father. Faith without too much thinking works wonders. The logical mind hinders the Grace of God and miracles. Practice patience without judging with the logical mind.” Saint Paisios the Athonite #God #logic #patience
Wounds to Your Bruises “As soon as you realize that you have sinned against the Lord, add no more wounds to your bruises. But if as a human you fall again, don’t get despondent, don’t despair. For how will the loving Lord, Who told Peter to forgive seventy times seven
Thursday October 16, 2025 / October 3, 2025 19th Week after Pentecost. Tone one. Hieromartyr Dionysius (Dennys) the Areopagite, and with him Martyrs Rusticus and Eleutherius (96). New Hiero-confessor Agathangelus (Preobrazhensky), metropolitan of Yaroslavl (1928). Finding of the relics (1988) of Venerable Ambrose of Optina (1911). St. Jerome of Aegina (1966). Venerable Dionysius, recluse
Enemies Fill The Heavens “Let us greatly love, and let us love gracefully. Let us love the wound and the one who caused it. Accept every blow as spiritual people do. Good people help you greatly toward salvation, but the evil doers, even more. Suffer them without causing them trouble.
Wednesday October 15, 2025 / October 2, 2025 19th Week after Pentecost. Tone one. Fast Hieromartyr Cyprian, Virgin-martyr Justina and Martyr Theoctist of Nicomedia (304). Blessed Andrew, fool-for-Christ at Constantinople (911). St. Theodore of Sanaskar (Ushakov), admiral of the Russian Navy (1817). Virgin-martyr Alexandra (1938). Venerable Anna of Kashin (1338). Venerable Cassian, monk, of Uglich (1504). Martyrs David and Constantine, princes of Argveti,