Tuesday September 22, 2026 / September 9, 2026
17th Week after Pentecost. Tone seven.
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, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
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having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone,
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in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,
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in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
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For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles-
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if indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given to me for you,
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how that by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I have briefly written already,
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by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ),
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which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets:
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that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel,
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of which I became a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of His power.
Mark 11:11-23
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And Jesus went into Jerusalem and into the temple. So when He had looked around at all things, as the hour was already late, He went out to Bethany with the twelve.
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Now the next day, when they had come out from Bethany, He was hungry.
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And seeing from afar a fig tree having leaves, He went to see if perhaps He would find something on it. When He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
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In response Jesus said to it, “Let no one eat fruit from you ever again.” And His disciples heard it.
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So they came to Jerusalem. Then Jesus went into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.
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And He would not allow anyone to carry wares through the temple.
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Then He taught, saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ “
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And the scribes and chief priests heard it and sought how they might destroy Him; for they feared Him, because all the people were astonished at His teaching.
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When evening had come, He went out of the city.
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Now in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
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And Peter, remembering, said to Him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree which You cursed has withered away.”
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So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God.
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For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.
Monday Reading
Ephesians 1:22-2:3
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And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church,
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which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
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And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,
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in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,
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among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
Mark 10:46-52
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Now they came to Jericho. As He went out of Jericho with His disciples and a great multitude, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the road begging.
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And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”
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Then many warned him to be quiet; but he cried out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”
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So Jesus stood still and commanded him to be called. Then they called the blind man, saying to him, “Be of good cheer. Rise, He is calling you.”
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And throwing aside his garment, he rose and came to Jesus.
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So Jesus answered and said to him, “What do you want Me to do for you?” The blind man said to Him, “Rabboni, that I may receive my sight.”
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Then Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your faith has made you well.” And immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus on the road.
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.”
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Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.”