Sunday August 23, 2020 / August 10, 2020

11^th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone two.
Dormition (Theotokos) Fast. Food with Oil

Synaxis of saints of Valaam Monastery (movable holiday on the Sunday after August 6^th).
Holy Martyrs Archdeacon Laurence and Pope Sixtus, Felicissimus and Agapitus, deacons, and others with them (258).
Blessed Laurence, fool-for-Christ at Kaluga (1515).
New Hieromartyr Viacheslav priest (1918).
New Hieromartyr Athanasius priest (1937).
Synaxis of the Saints of Solovki Monastery.
Uncovering and Translation of the relics of Venerable Sabbas of Storozhev or Zvenigorod (1998).
Martyr Romanus, soldier, of Rome (258).
Six Martyrs of Bizin (Greek).
Synaxis of New Martyrs and Confessors of Solovki.

The Scripture Readings

John 21:15-25 (11th Matins Gospel)
1 Corinthians 9:2-12 (Epistle)
Matthew 18:23-35 (Gospel)