Tuesday October 7, 2025 / September 24, 2025
18th Week after Pentecost. Tone eight.
Holy Protomartyr and Equal-to-the-Apostles Thecla of Iconium (1st c.).
St. Gabriel, of Pskov-Eleazar Monastery and Kazan (1915).
New Hieromartyr Basil deacon (1918).
New Hieromartyrs Andrew and Paul priests, Hieromartyr Vitaly and Martyrs Basil, Sergius and Spiridon (1937).
New Hieromartyr Nicander priest (1939).
Venerable Nicander, hermit of Pskov (1581).
Martyrdom of St. Galacteon, monk of Vologda (1612).
Venerable Coprius of Palestine (530).
Saint Vladislav of Serbia (1239).
Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos of “Mirozh” and “Of the Myrtle Tree” (1198).
Venerable Abramius, abbot of Mirozh (Pskov) (1158).
Venerables Stephen the First-Crowned (in monasticism Simon) (1224), David, and Vladislav (1239), of Serbia.
Righteous Euphrosyne, daughter of St. Paphnutius of Egypt.
Venerable Dorothea of Kashin (1629).
Arrival in America of the first Orthodox Mission: Sts. Herman, Juvenaly, and others (1794).
St. Isarnus of Marseilles (1043).
The Scripture Readings
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giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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submitting to one another in the fear of God.
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Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
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For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.
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Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,
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that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word,
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And it happened when He was in a certain city, that behold, a man who was full of leprosy saw Jesus; and he fell on his face and implored Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”
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Then He put out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” Immediately the leprosy left him.
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And He charged him to tell no one, “But go and show yourself to the priest, and make an offering for your cleansing, as a testimony to them, just as Moses commanded.”
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However, the report went around concerning Him all the more; and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by Him of their infirmities.
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So He Himself often withdrew into the wilderness and prayed.
Wednesday Reading
Ephesians 5:25-33
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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,
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that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word,
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that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.
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So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.
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For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church.
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For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.
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For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.
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This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
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Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
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Then they said to Him, “Why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and likewise those of the Pharisees, but Yours eat and drink?”
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And He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?
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But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; then they will fast in those days.
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Then He spoke a parable to them: “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old.
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And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined.
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But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved.
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And no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new; for he says, ‘The old is better.’