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The Morning Offering
Thursday, May 6 / April 23 (Church Calendar)
Saints of the Day:
Photo of the Day:
At the invitation of His Excellency, Vladimir N. Vinokurov, the San Francisco Consul General of the Russian Federation, I was able to visit him in his San Francisco home.
Quote of the Day: Thursday, May 6 / April 23 (Church Calendar)
Saints of the Day:
April 23 / May 6. Holy Glorious Great-martyr and Victory-bearer and Wonderworker George. Martyrs Anatolius and Protoleon, soldiers converted by witnessing the martyrdom of St. George. Martyr Alexandra the Empress (also 21 Apr). Martyrs Glycerius, Athanasius the Magician, Valerius, Donatus, and Therinus at Nicomedia. Blessed George of Shenkursk, fool-for-Christ. New-Martyr George of Ptolomais. New-Martyr Lazarus of Bulgaria who suffered at Pergamus. New-Martyr Priest Egor (George) of the Spas-Chekriak village (1918).
Photo of the Day:
At the invitation of His Excellency, Vladimir N. Vinokurov, the San Francisco Consul General of the Russian Federation, I was able to visit him in his San Francisco home.
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"For a man to attempt to teach his neighbor, when he hath not been required [so to do], is the same as offering him a rebuke."
from: "Paradise of the Holy Fathers Vol.2"
from: "Paradise of the Holy Fathers Vol.2"
Acts 14:20-27
27 Now when they had come and gathered the church together, they reported all that God had done with them, and that He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.
John 9:39-10:9
20 However, when the disciples gathered around him, he rose up and went into the city. And the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.
Strengthening the Converts
21 And when they had preached the gospel to that city and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch, 22 strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, "We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God." 23 So when they had appointed elders in every church, and prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed. 24 And after they had passed through Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia. 25 Now when they had preached the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia. 26 From there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work which they had completed.27 Now when they had come and gathered the church together, they reported all that God had done with them, and that He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.
John 9:39-10:9
39 And Jesus said, "For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind."
40 Then some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words, and said to Him, "Are we blind also?"
41 Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.
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