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13th Week after Pentecost.

Old Style 12 Aug 2026 Julian Calendar

Tuesday

New Style 25 Aug 2026 Gregorian Calendar

Dormition Fast
Monastic rule: hot food without oil.

2 Cor..8:16-9:5 ✥ Mark.3:13-19 ✥ John.10:9-16 ✥ Heb..7:26-8:2 ✥ Matt..5:14-19

Venerated Saints

Holy Martyrs Anicetus and Photius

Saint Alexander, Bishop of Comana

Martyrs Pamphilus and Capiton

Archimandrite Venerable Martyr

Varlaam (Konoplev), archimandrite of Belogorsky Monastery

Ηegumen / Abbot Venerable Martyr

Anthony (Arapov), abbot of Belogorsky Monastery

Hieromonks Hosiomartyrs

Sergius (Vershinin), Elijah (Popov), Vyacheslav (Kosozhilin), Joasaph (Sabantsev), John (Novoselov), hieromonks

Hierodeacon Venerable Martyr

Vissarion (Okulov), hierodeacon of Belogorsky Monastery

Hierodeacon Venerable Martyr

Mykhei (Podkorytov), hierodeacon of Belogorsky Monastery

Hierodeacon Venerable Martyr

Matthew (Bannikov), hierodeacon of Belogorsky Monastery

Hierodeacon Venerable Martyr

Euthymius (Korotkov), hierodeacon of Belogorsky Monastery

Barnabas (Nadezhdin), monk, Hermogenes (Boyaryshnev), Arkady (Noskov), Euthymius (Sharshylov), monks, Marcellus (Shavrin), and others with them

Venerable Martyr

Alexander Arapov of Belogorsk, novice

Venerable Martyr

Theodore Belkin of Belogorsk, novice

Venerable Martyr

Alexy Korotkov of Belogorsk, novice

Venerable Martyr

Peter of Belogorsk, novice

Presbyter Hieromartyr

Vasily Infantiev, presbyter

Presbyter Hieromartyr

Leonid Biryukovich, presbyter

Presbyter Hieromartyr

John Nikolsky, presbyter

Presbyter Hieromartyr

Nicholas Dobroumov, presbyter

2 Corinthians

8:16 But* thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.

8:17 For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more forward, of his own accord he went unto you.

8:18 And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the gospel throughout all the churches;

8:19 And not that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and declaration of your ready mind:

8:20 Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us:

8:21 Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

8:22 And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you.

8:23 Whether any do enquire of Titus, he is my partner and fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren be enquired of, they are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ.

8:24 Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

9:1 For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:

9:2 For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.

9:3 Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:

9:4 Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.

9:5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.

Gospel of Mark

3:13 And he* goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: and they came unto him.

3:14 And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach,

3:15 And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils:

3:16 And Simon he surnamed Peter;

3:17 And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder:

3:18 And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite,

3:19 And Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed him|: and they* went into an house.

Gospel of John

10:9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

10:11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

10:12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.

10:13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

10:14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.

10:15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

10:16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

Hebrews

7:26 For* such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

7:27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

7:28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.

8:1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;

8:2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

Gospel of Matthew

5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

5:15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

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