Sunday March 2, 2025 / February 17, 2025
The Sunday of Forgiveness. Tone three.
Cheesefare Sunday. Meat is excluded
Great-martyr Theodore the Tyro (306).
St. Hermogenes, patriarch of Moscow and all Russia (1612).
St. Nicholas (Planas), priest in Athens (1932).
New Hieromartyrs Michael, Paul priests (1938).
Virgin-martyr Anna (1940).
Venerable Theodore the Silent of the Kiev Caves (13th c.).
St. Mariamne, sister of Apostle Philip (1st c.).
Uncovering of the relics (867-869) of Martyr Menas the Melodius of Alexandria (ca. 313).
St. Finan, bishop of Lindisfarne (661) (Celtic & British).
St. Auxibius, bishop of Soli in Cyprus (102) (Greek).
New Martyr Theodore of Byzantium, at Mitylene (1795) (Greek).
Emperor Marcian (457) and Pulcheria, his wife (453), and the commemoration of the dedication of the Great Church in Constantinople (Greek).
Venerable Theodosius the Bulgarian and his disciple Venerable Romanus, monks, of Turnovo (1362) (Bulgaria).
New Martyr Michael Mavroeidis of Adrianople (1490).
Holy Hieromartyr Theodore of Adjara, who suffered under the Turks on Mt. Athos (19th c.) (Georgia).
St. Barnabas, elder of the Gethsemane Skete of St. Sergius Lavra (1906).
The Scripture Readings
Mark 16:9-20 (3rd Matins Gospel)
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Now when He rose early on the first day of the week, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom He had cast seven demons.
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She went and told those who had been with Him, as they mourned and wept.
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And when they heard that He was alive and had been seen by her, they did not believe.
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After that, He appeared in another form to two of them as they walked and went into the country.
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And they went and told it to the rest, but they did not believe them either.
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Later He appeared to the eleven as they sat at the table; and He rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen.
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And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
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He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.
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And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues;
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they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.
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So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.
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And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen.
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And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.
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The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
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Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy.
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But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.
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Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not to disputes over doubtful things.
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For one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.
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Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God has received him.
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Who are you to judge another’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.
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For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
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But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
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Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward.
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But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,
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so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
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Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal;
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but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.
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For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.