“How does one bear afflictions? Rely on God’s will. And concerning Those whom you consider guilty, think, as it is written by Saint Mark the Ascetic, that they’re only instruments of our salvation.”
St. Nikon of Optina
Tuesday November 5, 2024 / October 23, 2024
20th Week after Pentecost. Tone two.
Holy Apostle James the Brother of the Lord (63).
Translation of the relics of Blessed James of Borovichi, wonderworker of Novgorod (1540).
New Hieromartyrs Nicholas, Vladimir, Alexander, Nicholas, Emilian and Sozont priests (1937).
New Hieromartyr Archpriest Vladimir Ambartsumov of Moscow (1937).
Venerable Euphrosyne (1942).
Virgin-Martyr Antonina Timofeeva (1942).
St. Ignatius, patriarch of Constantinople (877).
Venerable Elisha of Lavrishevo, Belo-Russia (1250).
Venerable Nicephorus of Charsianos, Constantinople.
Venerable Petronius, disciple of St. Pachomius the Great (346).
Venerable Oda of Amay, foundress of churches (723) (Neth.).
St. Macarius the Roman of Mesopotamia.
St. Ethelfleda, abbess of Romsey.
The Scripture Readings
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holding fast the word of life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain or labored in vain.
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Yes, and if I am being poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.
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For the same reason you also be glad and rejoice with me.
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But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly, that I also may be encouraged when I know your state.
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For I have no one like-minded, who will sincerely care for your state.
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For all seek their own, not the things which are of Christ Jesus.
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But you know his proven character, that as a son with his father he served with me in the gospel.
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Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how it goes with me.
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Now it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, that one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.”
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So He said to them, “When you pray, say: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.
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Give us day by day our daily bread.
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And forgive us our sins, For we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one.”
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And He said to them, “Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves;
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‘for a friend of mine has come to me on his journey, and I have nothing to set before him’;
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and he will answer from within and say, ‘Do not trouble me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give to you’?
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I say to you, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as many as he needs.
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So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
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For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
Monday Reading
Philippians 2:12-16
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Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;
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for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.
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Do all things without complaining and disputing,
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that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,
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holding fast the word of life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain or labored in vain.
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All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.
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Then He turned to His disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things you see;
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for I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see what you see, and have not seen it, and to hear what you hear, and have not heard it.
Galatians 1:11-19 Apostle
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But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man.
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For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it.
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And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
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But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace,
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to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood,
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nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.
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Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and remained with him fifteen days.
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But I saw none of the other apostles except James, the Lord’s brother.
Matthew 13:54-58 Apostle
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When He had come to His own country, He taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, “Where did this Man get this wisdom and these mighty works?
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Is this not the carpenter’s son? Is not His mother called Mary? And His brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?
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And His sisters, are they not all with us? Where then did this Man get all these things?
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So they were offended at Him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house.”
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Now He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.
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