Monday July 6, 2026 / June 23, 2026
6th Week after Pentecost. Tone four.
Apostles’ (Peter & Paul) Fast. Fish Allowed
The Meeting of the Vladimir Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos in memory of Saving of Moscow from the Invasion of Khan Achmed.
Synaxis of All Saints of Vladimir.
Martyr Agrippina of Rome (253-260).
New Hieromartyrs Alexander Miropolsky, Peter Smorodintsev priests (1918).
New Hieromartyr Mitrophan archbishop of Astrakhan (1919), bishop Leonty of Enotaeva, and those with him.
New Hieromartyr Maxim, bishop of Serpukhov (1930).
St. Artemius of Verkola (1545).
Translation of the relics (1714) of St. Herman, archbishop of Kazan (1567).
Martyrs Eustochius, Gaius, Probus, Lollius, and Urban, of Ancyra (4th c.).
Pskov Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, “Tenderness” (1524), Zaonikeevsk (1588), and “Vratarnitsa”(1894) Icons of the Mother of God.
Venerables Joseph (1612), Anthony, and Ioannicius, abbots, of Vologda.
Translation of the relics of Venerable Michael, fool-for-Christ of Klops Monastery (1482).
Virgin Etheldreda of Ely (England) (679) (Celtic & British).
St. Dionysius of Polotsk (1182).
St. Nicetas of Thebes in Boetia (1079) and his disciples Theodore, Gregory and Daniel.
The Scripture Readings
Luke 1:39-49, 56 Matins Gospel
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Now Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, to a city of Judah,
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and entered the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth.
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And it happened, when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, that the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
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Then she spoke out with a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!
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But why is this granted to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
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For indeed, as soon as the voice of your greeting sounded in my ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.
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Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of those things which were told her from the Lord.
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And Mary said: “My soul magnifies the Lord,
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And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.
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For He has regarded the lowly state of His maidservant; For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed.
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For He who is mighty has done great things for me, And holy is His name.
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And Mary remained with her about three months, and returned to her house.
Romans 16:17-24
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Now I urge you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them.
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For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple.
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For your obedience has become known to all. Therefore I am glad on your behalf; but I want you to be wise in what is good, and simple concerning evil.
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And the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
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Timothy, my fellow worker, and Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my countrymen, greet you.
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I, Tertius, who wrote this epistle, greet you in the Lord.
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Gaius, my host and the host of the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, and Quartus, a brother.
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The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
Matthew 13:10-23
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And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”
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He answered and said to them, “Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
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For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
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Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
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And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: ‘Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, And seeing you will see and not perceive;
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For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them.’
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But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear;
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for assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.
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Therefore hear the parable of the sower:
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When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the wayside.
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But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy;
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yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.
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Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
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But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
Tuesday Reading
1 Corinthians 1:1-9
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Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
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To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:
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Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus,
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that you were enriched in everything by Him in all utterance and all knowledge,
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even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you,
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so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Matthew 13:24-30
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Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field;
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but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way.
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But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared.
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So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’
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He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’
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But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them.
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Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.” ‘ “
Philippians 2:5-11 Theotokos
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Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,
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who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God,
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but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.
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And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.
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Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name,
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that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth,
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and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Luke 10:38-42; 11:27-28 Theotokos
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Now it happened as they went that He entered a certain village; and a certain woman named Martha welcomed Him into her house.
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And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet and heard His word.
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But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me.”
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And Jesus answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things.
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But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her.
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And it happened, as He spoke these things, that a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts which nursed You!”
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But He said, “More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”