Rivers of Living Water: On The Holy Elders of Kolitsou, Mount Athos by Hieromonk Nicodemus Jones. Soon to be released by https://stgeorgepress.com/ and featuring a focus on the newly glorified Venerable Dionysios of Kolitsou (Romanian: Dionisie Ignat of Colciu), who Father Nicodemus lived with and interviewed, along with other members of his brotherhood, during his visit to the St. George Kellion on Mount Athos in 1999.
Tuesday September 9, 2025 / August 27, 2025
14th Week after Pentecost. Tone four.
Venerable Poemen the Great (450).
New Hieromartyr Stephen Nemkov, and those with him, of Nizhni-Novgorod (1918).
New Hieromartyrs Paul, priest (1918).
New Hieromartyrs John, John priest and Hieromartyr Methodius (1937).
New Hieromartyr Aleksander, priest (1939).
New Hieromartyr Vladimir, priest (1940).
St. Demetrius confessor, priest (1952).
Venerables Pimen, Kuksha, and Nicon of the Kiev Caves (1114).
St. Hosius (Osia) the Confessor, bishop of Cordova (4th c.).
St. Liberius, pope of Rome (366).
Venerable Poemen of Palestine (605).
Martyr Anthusa.
Venerable Sabbas of Benephali.
Great-martyr Phanurius the Newly Appeared of Rhodes (Greek).
Translation of the relics of Sts. Theognostus, Cyprian, and Photius, metropolitans of Moscow (1479).
St. Caesarius, bishop of Aries (543) (Celtic & British).
Martyr-hermit Decuman of Watchet.
Martyr Djan Darada, the Ethiopian eunuch of Queen Candace.
The Scripture Readings
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For I fear lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you do not wish; lest there be contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, backbitings, whisperings, conceits, tumults;
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lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and I shall mourn for many who have sinned before and have not repented of the uncleanness, fornication, and lewdness which they have practiced.
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This will be the third time I am coming to you. “By the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established.”
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I have told you before, and foretell as if I were present the second time, and now being absent I write to those who have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare-
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Then He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With the same measure you use, it will be measured to you; and to you who hear, more will be given.
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For whoever has, to him more will be given; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
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And He said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground,
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and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how.
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For the earth yields crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, after that the full grain in the head.
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But when the grain ripens, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.
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Then He said, “To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what parable shall we picture it?
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It is like a mustard seed which, when it is sown on the ground, is smaller than all the seeds on earth;
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but when it is sown, it grows up and becomes greater than all herbs, and shoots out large branches, so that the birds of the air may nest under its shade.
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And with many such parables He spoke the word to them as they were able to hear it.
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But without a parable He did not speak to them. And when they were alone, He explained all things to His disciples.
Galatians 5:22-6:2 St. Poemen
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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.
Matthew 4:25-5:12 St. Poemen
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Great multitudes followed Him-from Galilee, and from Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan.
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And seeing the multitudes, He went up on a mountain, and when He was seated His disciples came to Him.
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Then He opened His mouth and taught them, saying:
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Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
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Blessed are those who mourn, For they shall be comforted.
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Blessed are the meek, For they shall inherit the earth.
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Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled.
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Blessed are the merciful, For they shall obtain mercy.
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Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God.
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Blessed are the peacemakers, For they shall be called sons of God.
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Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
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Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.
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Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.