Sunday November 30, 2025 / November 17, 2025
25th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone eight.
Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Fish Allowed
St. Gregory the Wonderworker of Neo-Caesarea (266).
Venerable Nikon, abbot of Radonezh, disciple of St. Sergius (1426).
Sts. Acisclus and Victoria of Cordoba (4th c.).
Venerable Lazarus the iconographer of Constantinople (857).
Martyr Gobron (Michael) and 133 soldiers of Georgia (914) (Georgia).
St. Sebastian (Dabovich) of Jackson (1940) (Serbia).
Venerable Longinus of Egypt (4th c.).
St. Maximus (Maximian), patriarch of Constantinople (434).
Venerable Gennadius, abbot of Vatopedi, Mt. Athos (14th c.).
St. Gregory, bishop of Tours, and with him Venerable Aredius, abbot of Limoges and Venerable Vulfolaic, stylite of Trier (Gaul).
Venerable Hilda, abbess of Whitby (680) (British).
Martyrs Zachariah the Cobbler and his wife, Mary (3rd c.) (Greek).
Hieromartyr Basil, bishop of Hamah (282).
Martyrs Gregory, Victor, and Geminus of Heracleon in Thrace (304).
150 philosophers converted by St. Catherine, and who suffered in Alexandria (305).
St. John the Cobbler of Olumba, Cairo, and Sinai (7th c.).
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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I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called,
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with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love,
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endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
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There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling;
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one Lord, one faith, one baptism;
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one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
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Then He spoke a parable to them, saying: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully.
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And he thought within himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, since I have no room to store my crops?’
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So he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build greater, and there I will store all my crops and my goods.
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‘And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry.” ‘
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But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?’
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So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.