Nothing Comes Without Effort
“Nothing comes without effort. The help of God us always ready and always near, but is given only to those seekers who, after putting all their powers to the test, cry out with their whole heart: ‘Lord help us!'”
St Theophan the Recluse
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Friday January 24, 2025 / January 11, 2025
31st Week after Pentecost. Tone five.
Fast. Wine and Oil Allowed
Venerable Theodosius the Great, the Cenobiarch (529).
Venerable Michael of Klops Monastery, fool-for-Christ (Novgorod) (1452).
New Hieromartyrs Nicholas, Theodore and Vladimir priests (1919).
oSt. Vladimir confessor, priest (1932).
Venerable Theodosius of Antioch (412).
“Chernigov-Eletskaya” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1060).
Sts. Theodore and Agapius of Apamea in Syria.
Martyr Mairus.
St. Stephen of Placidian near Constantinople (Greek).
St. Theodosius of Mt. Athos, metropolitan of Trebizond (14th c.) (Greek).
St. Agapius of Apamea in Syria.
Hieromartyr Hyginus, pope of Rome (142) (Celtic & British).
Venerable Romilos the Hermit of Veddin (1375) (Greek).
Venerable Vitalis of the monastery of Abba Serid (Seridos) at Gaza (609-620) (Greek).
St. Joseph of Cappadocia (Greek).
The Scripture Readings
Luke 6:17-23 Matins Gospel
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And He came down with them and stood on a level place with a crowd of His disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear Him and be healed of their diseases,
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as well as those who were tormented with unclean spirits. And they were healed.
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And the whole multitude sought to touch Him, for power went out from Him and healed them all.
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Then He lifted up His eyes toward His disciples, and said: Blessed are you poor, For yours is the kingdom of God.
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Blessed are you who hunger now, For you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, For you shall laugh.
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Blessed are you when men hate you, And when they exclude you, And revile you, and cast out your name as evil, For the Son of Man’s sake.
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Rejoice in that day and leap for joy! For indeed your reward is great in heaven, For in like manner their fathers did to the prophets.
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My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with partiality.
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For if there should come into your assembly a man with gold rings, in fine apparel, and there should also come in a poor man in filthy clothes,
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and you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say to him, “You sit here in a good place,” and say to the poor man, “You stand there,” or, “Sit here at my footstool,”
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have you not shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?
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Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?
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But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts?
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Do they not blaspheme that noble name by which you are called?
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If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well;
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but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
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For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all.
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For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
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So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty.
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For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
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Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!”
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And the disciples were astonished at His words. But Jesus answered again and said to them, “Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter the kingdom of God!
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It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
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And they were greatly astonished, saying among themselves, “Who then can be saved?”
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But Jesus looked at them and said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible.”
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Then Peter began to say to Him, “See, we have left all and followed You.”
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So Jesus answered and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My sake and the gospel’s,
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who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time-houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions-and in the age to come, eternal life.
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But many who are first will be last, and the last first.
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Now they were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was going before them; and they were amazed. And as they followed they were afraid. Then He took the twelve aside again and began to tell them the things that would happen to Him:
2 Corinthians 4:6-15 Venerable
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For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
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But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.
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We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
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persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed-
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always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.
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For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
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So then death is working in us, but life in you.
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And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak,
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knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus, and will present us with you.
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For all things are for your sakes, that grace, having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.
Matthew 11:27-30 Venerable
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All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.
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Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
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Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
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For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.
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