Monday July 13, 2026 / June 30, 2026
7th Week after Pentecost. Tone five.
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
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I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people.
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Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.
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But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner-not even to eat with such a person.
12
For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside?
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But those who are outside God judges. Therefore “put away from yourselves the evil person.”
1
Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?
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Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
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Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?
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If then you have judgments concerning things pertaining to this life, do you appoint those who are least esteemed by the church to judge?
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I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you, not even one, who will be able to judge between his brethren?
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But brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers!
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Now therefore, it is already an utter failure for you that you go to law against one another. Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather let yourselves be cheated?
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No, you yourselves do wrong and cheat, and you do these things to your brethren!
9
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,
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nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.
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And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
Matthew 13:54-58
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When He had come to His own country, He taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, “Where did this Man get this wisdom and these mighty works?
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Is this not the carpenter’s son? Is not His mother called Mary? And His brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?
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And His sisters, are they not all with us? Where then did this Man get all these things?
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So they were offended at Him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house.”
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Now He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.
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.