Sunday August 9, 2020 / July 27, 2020

9^th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone eight.

Synaxis of saints of Smolensk (movable holiday on the Sunday before July 28th).
Holy Great-martyr and Healer Panteleimon (305).
Commemoration of the canonization of Venerable Herman of Alaska (1970).
New Hieromartyrs Ambrose, bishop of Sarapul, priests Plato and Panteleimon (1918).
New Hieromartyr John priest (1941).
St. Ioasaph, metropolitan of Moscow (1555).
Blessed Nicholas Kochanov, fool-for-Christ at Novgorod (1392).
Venerable Anthusa, abbess of Mantinea in Asia Minor and her 90 sisters (759).
St. Clement of Ochrid, bishop of Greater Macedonia (916), and Sts. Angelar (10th c.), Gorazd (896), Nahum of Ochrid (910), and Sabbas (10th c.), disciples of Sts. Cyril and Methodius (Bulgaria).
Martyr Christodulus (1777) (Greek).
The blind man who confessed Christ and was martyred with St. Panteleimon (Greek).
853 Martyrs of Thrace who were drowned (Greek).
St. Manuel, monk (Greek).

The Scripture Readings

John 20:19-31 (9th Matins Gospel)
1 Corinthians 3:9-17
Matthew 14:22-34
2 Timothy 2:1-10 Great-martyr
John 15:17-16:2 Great-martyr