Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God, called “Hodegetria”
Icon of the Theotokos "Tenderness", from Smolensk
10 of August 2025
(28 of July by old style),
Sunday
9th week after Pentecost
voice 8th
At the meal: — meat, eggs, dairy food, fish
Apostles from 70 Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon and Parmen deacons (I). Martyrs Julian (II), Eustathius (316) and Akacius (322). Saint monk Pavel Xiropotamsky (820). Saint monk Irina Khrisovolantskaya, Cappadocian (921). St. bishop Pitirim, bishop of Tambov (1698). Hieromartyr Nikolai Ponomarev, deacon (1918). Saint monk martyr Vasily Erekaev, martyrs Anastasia Kamaeva and Elena Astashikina, martyrs Aref Eremkin, John Lomakin, John Selmanov, John Milyoshkin and martyr Maura Moiseeva (1937). Cathedral of Tambov saints.
Icons of the Mother of God: Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God, called “Hodegetria” (Guide) (brought from Constantinople in 1046) (1046), Grebnevskaya (1380), "Hodegetria" from Gustyn (1670), "Hodegetria" from Kostroma (1672), Nankovskaya (1690), "Tenderness" from Serafimo-Diveevo (1885), "Hodegetria" from Ustyug (1290), "Hodegetria" from Vydropussk (XV), “Hodegetria” Khristoforovskaya (XVI), "Hodegetria" Supraslskaya (XVI), “Hodegetria” Smolenskaya Igritskaya (Pesochenskaya) (XVI), “Hodegetria” Shuiskaya (1654–1655), "Hodegetria" Sedmiezernaya (XVII), “Hodegetria” Sergievskaya (in the Lavra) (1730).
Liturgy: 1 Cor. [128] III, 9–17. Matthew. [59] XIV, 22–34 (about walking on water) . The Mother of God: Phil. [240] II, 5-11. Luke. [54] X, 38-42; XI, 27-28. To read