Sunday July 13, 2025 / June 30, 2025
5th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone four.
Venerables Tikhon, Basil and Nikon Sokolovsky (16th c.) (movable holiday on the 1st Sunday after June 29th).
St. Arsenius, bishop of Tver (movable holiday on the 1st Sunday after June 29th).
Synaxis of saints of Tver (movable holiday on the 1st Sunday after June 29th).
Hieromartirs Neophytus, Jonah, Neophytus, Jonah, and Parthenius of Lampsacus (movable holiday on the 1st Sunday after June 27th).
Synaxis of the Holy, Glorious and All-praised Twelve Apostles: Peter, Andrew, James and John the sons of Zebedee, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Jude the brother of James, Simon the Zealot, Matthias.
Synaxis of All Saints of Birobidzhan Diocese.
New Hieromartyrs Alexis Vedensky, Timothy Petropavlovsky priests and Martyr Nicander Prusak (1918).
New Hieromartyr Theogenes (1939).
New Hieromartyr Milan Popovic of Rmanj, Serbia (1940s).
New Martyr Alexander Schmorell, Germany (1943).
Martyr John (1944).
Venerable Peter the Prince of Ordinsk, Rostov (1290).
Glorification (1918) of St. Sophronius, bishop of Irkutsk (1771).
“Balikin” (1711) and “Gorbanevsk” (1786) Icons of the Mother of God.
St. Andrew, prince of Bogoliubsk (1174).
New Martyr Michael (Paknanas) the Gardener, of Athens (1770) (Greek).
Translation of the relics of the Great-martyr Stephen-Urosh III of Dechani, Serbia (1338).
St. Gelasius of Rimef (Transylvania) (14th c.).
Martyr Peter of Synope (Greek).
Martyr Meleton (Greek).
Martyr Basilides the Soldier at Alexandria (202).
Holy Queen Dinar (10th c.) (Georgia).
St. Stephen of Omsk (1876).
St. Martial, bishop of Lomoges (3rd c.).
The Scripture Readings
Luke 24:12-35 (5th Matins Gospel)
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But Peter arose and ran to the tomb; and stooping down, he saw the linen cloths lying by themselves; and he departed, marveling to himself at what had happened.
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Now behold, two of them were traveling that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was seven miles from Jerusalem.
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And they talked together of all these things which had happened.
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So it was, while they conversed and reasoned, that Jesus Himself drew near and went with them.
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But their eyes were restrained, so that they did not know Him.
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And He said to them, “What kind of conversation is this that you have with one another as you walk and are sad?”
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Then the one whose name was Cleopas answered and said to Him, “Are You the only stranger in Jerusalem, and have You not known the things which happened there in these days?”
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And He said to them, “What things?” So they said to Him, “The things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a Prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people,
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and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to be condemned to death, and crucified Him.
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But we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, today is the third day since these things happened.
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Yes, and certain women of our company, who arrived at the tomb early, astonished us.
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When they did not find His body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who said He was alive.
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And certain of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said; but Him they did not see.
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Then He said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
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Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?
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And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.
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Then they drew near to the village where they were going, and He indicated that He would have gone farther.
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But they constrained Him, saying, “Abide with us, for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent.” And He went in to stay with them.
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Now it came to pass, as He sat at the table with them, that He took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.
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Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him; and He vanished from their sight.
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And they said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?”
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So they rose up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven and those who were with them gathered together,
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saying, “The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!”
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And they told about the things that had happened on the road, and how He was known to them in the breaking of bread.
Romans 10:1-10 (Epistle)
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Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved.
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For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
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For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.
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For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
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For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, “The man who does those things shall live by them.”
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But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ down from above)
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or, ” ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).
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But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach):
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that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
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For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Matthew 8:28-9:1 (Gospel)
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When He had come to the other side, to the country of the Gergesenes, there met Him two demon-possessed men, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that no one could pass that way.
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And suddenly they cried out, saying, “What have we to do with You, Jesus, You Son of God? Have You come here to torment us before the time?”
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Now a good way off from them there was a herd of many swine feeding.
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So the demons begged Him, saying, “If You cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of swine.”
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And He said to them, “Go.” So when they had come out, they went into the herd of swine. And suddenly the whole herd of swine ran violently down the steep place into the sea, and perished in the water.
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Then those who kept them fled; and they went away into the city and told everything, including what had happened to the demon-possessed men.
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And behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus. And when they saw Him, they begged Him to depart from their region.
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So He got into a boat, crossed over, and came to His own city.
1 Corinthians 4:9-16 Apostles
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For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.
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We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored!
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To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless.
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And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;
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being defamed, we entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.
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I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you.
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For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
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Therefore I urge you, imitate me.
Mark 3:13-19 Apostles
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And He went up on the mountain and called to Him those He Himself wanted. And they came to Him.
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Then He appointed twelve, that they might be with Him and that He might send them out to preach,
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and to have power to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons:
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Simon, to whom He gave the name Peter;
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James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James, to whom He gave the name Boanerges, that is, “Sons of Thunder”;
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Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Cananite;
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and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed Him. And they went into a house.