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20 August 2026, Thursday
Feasts, fasts and events
Fasting meal без рыбы, масла и вина.
Dormition Fast
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Lives and liturgical texts
The life of our revered father , Pimen the Merciful .
Coming to the story of Blessed Pimen, let us focus our attention on his great courage in suffering and learn from this that sickness must be endured patiently and that the power of God is made perfect in weakness. Blessed Pimen was born sick; the disease did not leave him all his life, but this physical illness did not allow him to develop a mental illness: he was pure of vices and kept his virginity from birth.
The performance of the Reverend Ora the Blackbeard
In Thebes of Egypt, a country adjacent to Ethiopia, there was among the monks a wonderful man named Or, who founded many monasteries, the idols of which numbered up to a thousand.
The memory of the holy martyr Domitius
St. Domitius lived during the reign of Constantine the Great. His native land was Persia, where he was converted from paganism to Christianity by a certain Uaur. Leaving his relatives and his homeland, full of pagan wickedness, St. Domitius retreated to the borders of the Greek state, to the city of Nizibia [In Mesopotamia].
The fourth voice, the throbbing.
Tropar, voice 4: Fasting, he ascended the mountain, and the clever enemy of the militia, with all the weapons of the cross, destroyed her, and she was blessed; but she was made to suffer the suffering of the man; and for both of them she was crowned by Boaz, the pre-martyr, Domitian, a memorial.
Kondack, the sixth voice.
Kondac, verse 6: The great monk-teacher, who was a shadowy and seductive disciple, appeared to him, not afraid of the king's wrath, not desirous of honoring Christ the true God. He died for this reason, singing the song: God is with me, and no one else is here. ___________________________________________ 1 In Mesopotamia. 2 On the east bank of the Euphrates. 3 With two disciples. 4 Within the confines of Cyrus in Syria. 5 Julian the Apostate, a few nephews of Constantine the Great, son of his brother Julius Constantius, was born in 331 A.D. 345 along with his brother Gal was exiled to Capdaucia, where he was sent to Constantinople, where he spent 35 years under the supervision of the Roman emperor, and spent 365 years in exile in Constantinople, where he was appointed by the Holy See, and exiled by the Holy Roman emperor Nicholas III.
His study of philosophy under the guidance of a pagan teacher, the dissension among Christians due to the Arian riots, hatred of Constantius and hatred of the religion of his oppressor Christianity aroused in Julian. He set out to restore paganism and destroy Christianity.
The suffering of the holy martyrs , Marin and Asteria .
In the days of the pagan kings Valerian and his son Gallien, there lived in Rome an honest and virtuous nobleman named Asterius, who professed the faith of Christ; he was a noble and wealthy man who enjoyed the favor of the kings.