Freed By Fasting “Let thy mind fast from vain thoughts; let thy memory fast from remembering evil; let thy will fast from evil desire; let thine eyes fast from bad sights: turn away thine eyes that thou mayest not see vanity; let thine ears fast from vile songs and slanderous
Saturday November 8, 2025 / October 26, 2025 22nd Week after Pentecost. Tone four. Holy and Glorious Great-martyr Demetrius the Myrrh-gusher of Thessalonica (306). Commemoration of the Great Earthquake at Constantinople in 740 A.D. Venerable Theophilus of the Kiev Caves, bishop of Novgorod (1482). Martyr Luppos (306). Venerable Athanasius of Medikion Monastery (814). Venerable Demetrius of Basarbov in Bulgaria (1685). Venerable
Call Him & Hold Him “Forgetting God is the most severe illness of the human soul. Returning to God is remembering God – not in the sense that I remember Him as something in my memory, but in the sense that I call Him and hold Him in my mind.”
Friday November 7, 2025 / October 25, 2025 22nd Week after Pentecost. Tone four. Fast. Martyrs Marcian and Martyrius the Notaries of Constantinople (355). St. Matrona the Confessor of Diveyevo (1963). Venerable Martyrius the Deacon (13th c.) and Venerable Martyrius the Recluse of the Kiev Caves. Martyr Anastasius the Fuller at Salona in Dalmatia (3rd c.). St. Tabitha,
“A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.” C.S. Lewis #desire #danger #moral
Thursday November 6, 2025 / October 24, 2025 22nd Week after Pentecost. Tone four. Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “The Joy of All Who Sorrow” (1688). Martyr Arethas of Omir and with him 4299 Martyrs (523). St. Zosimas (Verkhovsky), elder of Siberia (1833). New Hieromartyrs Laurence bishop of Balakhninsk, Alexis priest and Martyr Alexis
Rich Giving “A rich man is not one who has much, but one who gives much. For what he gives away remains his forever.” Saint John Chrysostom #charity #giving #rich
Wednesday November 5, 2025 / October 23, 2025 22nd Week after Pentecost. Tone four. Fast. Oil Holy Apostle James the Brother of the Lord (63). Translation of the relics of Blessed James of Borovichi, wonderworker of Novgorod (1540). New Hieromartyrs Nicholas, Vladimir, Alexander, Nicholas, Emilian and Sozont priests (1937). New Hieromartyr Archpriest Vladimir Ambartsumov of Moscow
Don’t Be A Troublemaker “If you aren’t a peacemaker, at least don’t be a troublemaker.” Saint Isaac the Syrian #Jesus #peacemaker #orthodox Music by Gus Reeves: https://soundcloud.com/gusreeves/the-hurts-to-be
Tuesday November 4, 2025 / October 22, 2025 22nd Week after Pentecost. Tone four. The Kazan Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, commemorating the deliverance from the Poles in 1612. Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Abercius, bishop and wonderworker of Hierapolis (167). 7 Holy Youths (“7 Sleepers”) of Ephesus: Maximilian, Iamblichus, Martinian, Dionysius, Antoninus, Constantine (Hexakustodianos), and John