Given to Give
“To deprive is to take what belongs to another; for our money is the Lord’s, however we may have gathered it. That is why God has allowed you to have more…not for you to waste on drink, fancy food, expensive clothes, and other kinds of indolence…but for you to distribute to those in need like an official in the imperial treasury.”
-St. John Chrysostom
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Tuesday December 3, 2024 / November 20, 2024
24th Week after Pentecost. Tone six.
Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Food with Oil
Forefeast of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple.
Venerable Gregory Decapolites (816).
St. Proclus, archbishop of Constantinople (447).
New Hieromartyrs Macarius bishop of Ecaterinoslav, Alexis, Alexander, Vladimir, John, Alexis, Basil, Nicholas, John, Emilian, Nocolos priests and Hieromartyrs Arsenius, Eutihius and Hillarion, Woman Hieromartyr Ioanicus hegumen (1937).
New Woman Hieromartyr Tatiana (after 1937).
Venerable Diodorus of George Hill (Solovki) (1633).
Martyr Dasius of Dorostolum (Romania) (303).
Martyrs Eustace, Thespesius, and Anatolius of Nicaea (312).
Hieromartyrs Nerses and Joseph; and John, Saverius, Isaac, and Hypatius, bishops of Persia; Martyrs Azades, Sasonius, Thecla, and Anna (343).
Martyrs Bautha and Denachis, who suffered with Hieromartyr Nerses of Persia (343). oSt. Isaac, bishop of Armenia (440). oVenerable Theoctistus the Confessor (855). oSt. Edmund, king of England and martyr (869) (Celtic & British).
St. Sozomen of Cyprus (12th c.).
The Scripture Readings
9
For what thanks can we render to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sake before our God,
10
night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face and perfect what is lacking in your faith?
11
Now may our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.
12
And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all, just as we do to you,
13
so that He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.
26
And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:
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They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
28
Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;
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but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.
30
Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
31
In that day, he who is on the housetop, and his goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back.
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Remember Lot’s wife.
33
Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.
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I tell you, in that night there will be two men in one bed: the one will be taken and the other will be left.
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Two women will be grinding together: the one will be taken and the other left.
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Two men will be in the field: the one will be taken and the other left.
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And they answered and said to Him, “Where, Lord?” So He said to them, “Wherever the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together.”
Wednesday Reading
1 Thessalonians 4:1-12
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Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God;
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for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
3
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality;
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that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
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not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God;
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that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified.
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For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness.
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Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit.
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But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another;
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and indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, that you increase more and more;
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that you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,
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that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing.
15
Then they also brought infants to Him that He might touch them; but when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
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But Jesus called them to Him and said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of God.
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Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it.
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And those who heard it said, “Who then can be saved?”
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But He said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.”
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Then Peter said, “See, we have left all and followed You.”
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So He said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or parents or brothers or wife or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,
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who shall not receive many times more in this present time, and in the age to come eternal life.
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