June 28

A READING

As a ship sailing through the sea leaves no trace behind it, so our soul, led by the Spirit of God through the vast sea and abyss of divine contemplation, should, with a backward glance, find no trace of the road by which we came, nor how we reached that point.
If you had already considered all of this, my dear brother in Christ, you probably would not have asked me or anyone else to advise you how to pray. Instead, you would have abandoned yourself completely to the divine Spirit, without asking to know the way, nor how the Spirit guides you.
Keep in mind, then, that in your orations, that is, when you are in prayer, the best method is not to have a method, and the best formula is not to have a formula. This is because prayer flows from the Spirit, who is generous, abundant and varied in his gifts, and as a result, the ways and kinds of prayer are so diverse and varied as to be almost infinite.

(Paul Giustiniani, from his Treaty on Prayer).

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THE CHURCHES REMEMBER...

ANGLICANS:
Irenaeus, bishop of Lyon, teacher of the faith

WESTERN CATHOLICS:
Irenaeus, bishop and martyr (Roman and Ambrosian calendars)
Juliana, virgin and martyr (Spanish-Mozarabic calendar)

COPTS AND ETHIOPIANS (21 ba'unah/sane):
Building of the first church dedicated to the Virgin et Philippi (Coptic Church)

LUTHERANS:
Irenaeus, doctor of the church in Lyon

MARONITES:
Irenaeus, bishop and confessor

ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS AND GREEK CATHOLICS:
Relocation of the relics of Cyrus and John of Alexandria (412), thaumaturges and anargyres
Jonah the Thaumaturge (d. 1461), metropolitan of Moscow (Russian Church)
Ephrem (14th cent.), patriarch of the Serbs
Lazarus Hrebeljanovic (d. 1389), martyr (Serbian Church)
Sergius and Germanus of Valaam (14th-15th cent.), monks (Orthodox Church of Finland)

EAST SYRIAN ORTHODOX:
Irenaeus, bishop and martyr (Malabar Church)

OLD CATHOLICS:
Irenaeus of Lyon, bishop