Holocaust on Hold
The world is on the brink of nuclear war. What to do?
“The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” James 5:16
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Thursday November 28, 2024 / November 15, 2024
23rd Week after Pentecost. Tone five.
Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Food with Oil
Beginning of Nativity Fast.
Holy Martyrs and Confessors Gurias (299), Samonas (306), and Abibus (322), of Edessa.
Venerable Paisius (Velichkovsky) of Moldavia and Mt. Athos (1794).
New Hieromartyrs Nicholas and Peter priests, Gregory and Nicitas deacons (1937).
Martyrs Elpidius, Marcellus, and Eustochius, who suffered under Julian the Apostate (361).
Martyr Demetrius of Thrace (307).
“Kupyatich” Icon (1180) of the Most Holy Theotokos.
Venerable Philip, abbot of Rabang (Vologda) (1457).
St. Quinctian, bishop of Seleucia (4th c.).
St. Thomas the New, patriarch of Constantinople (665-668) (Greek).
Repose of St. Herman, wonderworker of Alaska (1836).
The Scripture Readings
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For you remember, brethren, our labor and toil; for laboring night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.
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You are witnesses, and God also, how devoutly and justly and blamelessly we behaved ourselves among you who believe;
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as you know how we exhorted, and comforted, and charged every one of you, as a father does his own children,
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that you would walk worthy of God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.
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For this reason we also thank God without ceasing, because when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively works in you who believe.
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For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus. For you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, just as they did from the Judeans,
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He also said to His disciples: “There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and an accusation was brought to him that this man was wasting his goods.
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So he called him and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your stewardship, for you can no longer be steward.’
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Then the steward said within himself, ‘What shall I do? For my master is taking the stewardship away from me. I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg.
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‘I have resolved what to do, that when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.’
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So he called every one of his master’s debtors to him, and said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’
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And he said, ‘A hundred measures of oil.’ So he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’
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Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ So he said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’
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So the master commended the unjust steward because he had dealt shrewdly. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in their generation than the sons of light.
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And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by unrighteous mammon, that when you fail, they may receive you into an everlasting home.
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