Climb Up To Heaven
“It’s good when we reproach ourselves and humble ourselves. Many try to climb up to heaven by laying ascetic labors upon themselves, but don’t want to be humble. They don’t want to be humble. This is a wound – the wound of contemporary monasticism. Humble yourself!”
-St. Barsanuphius of Optina
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Saturday November 30, 2024 / November 17, 2024
23rd Week after Pentecost. Tone five.
Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Fish Allowed
St. Gregory the Wonderworker of Neo-Caesarea (266).
Venerable Nikon, abbot of Radonezh, disciple of St. Sergius (1426).
Sts. Acisclus and Victoria of Cordoba (4th c.).
Venerable Lazarus the iconographer of Constantinople (857).
Martyr Gobron (Michael) and 133 soldiers of Georgia (914) (Georgia).
St. Sebastian (Dabovich) of Jackson (1940) (Serbia).
Venerable Longinus of Egypt (4th c.).
St. Maximus (Maximian), patriarch of Constantinople (434).
Venerable Gennadius, abbot of Vatopedi, Mt. Athos (14th c.).
St. Gregory, bishop of Tours, and with him Venerable Aredius, abbot of Limoges and Venerable Vulfolaic, stylite of Trier (Gaul).
Venerable Hilda, abbess of Whitby (680) (British).
Martyrs Zachariah the Cobbler and his wife, Mary (3rd c.) (Greek).
Hieromartyr Basil, bishop of Hamah (282).
Martyrs Gregory, Victor, and Geminus of Heracleon in Thrace (304).
150 philosophers converted by St. Catherine, and who suffered in Alexandria (305).
St. John the Cobbler of Olumba, Cairo, and Sinai (7th c.).
The Scripture Readings
1
Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia:
2
that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded in the riches of their liberality.
3
For I bear witness that according to their ability, yes, and beyond their ability, they were freely willing,
4
imploring us with much urgency that we would receive the gift and the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.
5
And not only as we had hoped, but they first gave themselves to the Lord, and then to us by the will of God.
57
Now it happened as they journeyed on the road, that someone said to Him, “Lord, I will follow You wherever You go.”
58
And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.”
59
Then He said to another, “Follow Me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”
60
Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and preach the kingdom of God.”
61
And another also said, “Lord, I will follow You, but let me first go and bid them farewell who are at my house.”
62
But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”
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