Russian Orthodox

Wednesday September 9, 2026 / August 27, 2026

15th Week after Pentecost. Tone five.
Fast. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits)

Venerable Poemen the Great (450).
New Hieromartyrs Priests Michael Voskresensky and Stephen Nemkov, and those with them, of Nizhni-Novgorod (1918).
New Hieromartyrs Paul, priest (1918).
New Hieromartyrs John, John priest and Hieromartyr Methodius (1937).
New Hieromartyr Aleksander, priest (1939).
New Hieromartyr Vladimir, priest (1940).
St. Demetrius confessor, priest (1952).
Venerables Pimen, Kuksha, and Nicon of the Kiev Caves (1114).
St. Hosius (Osia) the Confessor, bishop of Cordova (4th c.).
St. Liberius, pope of Rome (366).
Venerable Poemen of Palestine (605).
Martyr Anthusa.
Venerable Sabbas of Benephali.
Great-martyr Phanurius the Newly Appeared of Rhodes (Greek).
Translation of the relics of Sts. Theognostus, Cyprian, and Photius, metropolitans of Moscow (1479).
St. Caesarius, bishop of Aries (543) (Celtic & British).
Martyr-hermit Decuman of Watchet.
Martyr Djan Darada, the Ethiopian eunuch of Queen Candace.

The Scripture Readings

Galatians 3:15-22
Mark 6:7-13
Galatians 5:22-6:2 St. Poemen
Matthew 4:25-5:12 St. Poemen

Troparion

St. Poemen the Great, Troparion, in Tone VIII —
With the streams of thy tears thou didst irrigate the barren desert,/ and with sighs from the depths of thy soul thou didst render thy labors fruitful an hundredfold,/ and becamest a beacon for the whole world, resplendent with miracles.// O Poemen our father, entreat Christ God, that our souls be saved.

Kontakion, in Tone IV, 'Thou hast appeared..." —
Today the holy memory of thy splendid struggles hath dawned, O father,/ gladdening the souls of the pious,// O divinely wise Poemen, our venerable father.

Design Jason Powell.