August 30 · Alexander of Constantinople
The Church has a memory for shepherds who would not let a true word slip.
The Vigil Lamp
August 29 · Beheading of the Forerunner
There are days the Church sings, and days the Church also weeps. Today is both.
August 28 · Job of Pochaev
The Church has more than one day for Saint Job of Pochaev.
August 27 · Pimen the Great
In the Egyptian desert, a question could travel a long way.
August 26 · Adrian and Natalia
There were twenty-three of them in the cave outside Nicomedia.
August 25 · Titus and Bartholomew
Titus crossed the sea alive, searching for truth, and came home to give Crete the Gospel. Bartholomew had gone out at Christ’s command; centuries later, even his relics crossed the sea and were welcomed with prayer.
September 1 · Symeon the Stylite
On the day the Church begins her year, a shepherd boy who could not let go of the Beatitudes becomes the man on the pillar — and his mother Martha waits in silence at the foot of the hill.
July 9 · St. Pancratius of Taormina
Tonight's saint saw the Lord Jesus with his own eyes — and was called out of a hidden life to bring a whole city to Christ.