Christians Love Everyone
“A Christian must not be a fanatic but have love for everyone. Whoever hurls indiscreet words, even when he may be in the right, does harm.”
-Saint Paisios The Athonite
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Saturday December 28, 2024 / December 15, 2024
27th Week after Pentecost. Tone one.
Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Fish Allowed
Hieromartyr Eleutherius, bishop of Illyria, and his mother, Martyr Anthia and Martyr Corivus the Eparch (126).
Venerable Paul of Mt. Latros (956).
St. Stephen the Confessor, archbishop of Surozh in the Crimea (790).
Synaxis of All Saints of Crimea.
New Hieromartyr Hilarion (Troitsky), bishop of Verey (1929).
New Hieromartyrs Alexander, Basil, Victorinus priests (1937).
New Hieromartyrs Joseph, metropolitan of Petrograd (1938).
Venerable Tryphon, of Pechenga or Kola (1583), and his martyred disciple Venerable Jonah.
Martyr Eleutherius at Constantinople (4th c.).
Venerable Pardus, hermit of Palestine (6th c.).
Monk-martyr Bacchus of Mar Saba (8th c.).
Martyr Susanna the Deaconess of Palestine (4th c.).
Venerable Nektarius of Bitel’sk (1500).
St. Aubertus, bishop (668) (Neth.).
The Scripture Readings
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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
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gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
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And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
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If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
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Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
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Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted.
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Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
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Now it happened, as He went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees to eat bread on the Sabbath, that they watched Him closely.
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And behold, there was a certain man before Him who had dropsy.
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And Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”
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But they kept silent. And He took him and healed him, and let him go.
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Then He answered them, saying, “Which of you, having a donkey or an ox that has fallen into a pit, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?”
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And they could not answer Him regarding these things.
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So He told a parable to those who were invited, when He noted how they chose the best places, saying to them:
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When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in the best place, lest one more honorable than you be invited by him;
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and he who invited you and him come and say to you, ‘Give place to this man,’ and then you begin with shame to take the lowest place.
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But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, go up higher.’ Then you will have glory in the presence of those who sit at the table with you.
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For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.