Monday September 22, 2025 / September 9, 2025
16th Week after Pentecost. Tone six.
Holy and Righteous Ancestors of God Joachim and Anna.
Martyr Severian of Sebaste (320).
Venerable Joseph, abbot of Volokolamsk (or Volotsk) (1515).
Uncovering of the relics (1896) of St. Theodosius, archbishop of Chernigov (1696).
Elders of the Glinsk Hermitage: Venerables Basil Kishkin (1831); Philaret Danilevsky (1841); Theodotus Levchenko (1859); Macarius Sharov (1864); Martyrius Kirichenko (1865); Euthymius Liubimchenko (1866); Dositheus Kolchenkov (1874); Heliodorus Golovanitsky (1879); Innocent Stepanov (1888); Luke Shvets (1894); Archippus Shestakov (1896); Ioannicius Gromolko (1912); Seraphim Amelin (1958); Andronicus Lukash (1974); Seraphim Romantsov (1976); Zenobius Mazhuga (Seraphim) (1985).
New Hieromartyrs Gregory priest and Aleksander deacon (1918).
New Hieromartyrs Zaharias archbishop of Voronezh, Sergius, Joseph, Alexis, Demetrius priests and Martyr Basil (1937).
New Hieromartyr Andronicus (1938).
New Hieromartyr Alexander, priest (1942).
Venerable Theophanes the Confessor and Faster of Mt. Diabenos (299).
Martyrs Chariton and Straton.
Blessed Nicetas the Hidden of Constantinople (12th c.).
Commemoration of the Third Ecumenical Council (431).
Venerable Onuphrius of Voronsk (1789) (Romania).
Venerable Joachim, abbot of Opochka Monastery (Pskov) (1550).
St. Kieran (Ciaran) of Clonmacnois (Ireland) (ca. 545) (Celtic & British).
St. Omer, bishop of Therouanne (670).
St. Wulfhilda, abbess of Barking.
St. Bettelin, Hermit of Crowland.
The Scripture Readings
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Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.
29
But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now.
30
Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.”
31
So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.
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Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
2
Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.
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And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole law.
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You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.
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For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
6
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.
7
You ran well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?
8
This persuasion does not come from Him who calls you.
9
A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
10
I have confidence in you, in the Lord, that you will have no other mind; but he who troubles you shall bear his judgment, whoever he is.
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ran through that whole surrounding region, and began to carry about on beds those who were sick to wherever they heard He was.
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Wherever He entered, into villages, cities, or the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged Him that they might just touch the hem of His garment. And as many as touched Him were made well.
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Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes came together to Him, having come from Jerusalem.
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Now when they saw some of His disciples eat bread with defiled, that is, with unwashed hands, they found fault.
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For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands in a special way, holding the tradition of the elders.
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When they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other things which they have received and hold, like the washing of cups, pitchers, copper vessels, and couches.
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Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?”
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He answered and said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written:’This people honors Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me.
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And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’
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For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men -the washing of pitchers and cups, and many other such things you do.
Galatians 4:22-31 Ancestors
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For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman.
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But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and he of the freewoman through promise,
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which things are symbolic. For these are the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar-
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or this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children-
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but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all.
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For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren, You who do not bear! Break forth and shout, You who are not in labor! For the desolate has many more children Than she who has a husband.”
28
Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.
29
But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now.
30
Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.”
31
So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.
Luke 8:16-21 Ancestors
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No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a vessel or puts it under a bed, but sets it on a lampstand, that those who enter may see the light.
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For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light.
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Therefore take heed how you hear. For whoever has, to him more will be given; and whoever does not have, even what he seems to have will be taken from him.
19
Then His mother and brothers came to Him, and could not approach Him because of the crowd.
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And it was told Him by some, who said, “Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, desiring to see You.”
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But He answered and said to them, “My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it.”