Saturday November 14, 2026 / November 1, 2026
24th Week after Pentecost. Tone six.
Holy Wonderworkers and Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian of Mesopotamia, and their mother St. Theodota (3rd c.).
New Hieromartyrs Alexander and Theodore priests (1918).
New Hieromartyrs Sergius archbishop of Eletsk, Alexander and Demetrius priests, Virgin-martyr Elizabeth (1937).
Martyr Peter (1941).
Hieromartyrs John the Bishop and James the Presbyter, of Persia (345).
Martyrs Cyrenia and Juliana in Cilicia (305).
Martyr Hermeningilda the Goth of Spain (586).
Martyrs Caesarius, Dacius, Sabbas, Sabinian, Agrippa, Adrian, and Thomas at Damascus (7th c.).
St. Cosmas of Verkhoturye (1704).
Martyrs James of Mt. Athos and his two disciples James and Dionysius (1520) (Greek).
Venerable David of Euboea (1589) (Greek).
Martyrs Cyprian and Juliana (Greek).
St. Cadfan, abbot of Bardsey Island.
New Virgin-martyr Helen of Sinope (18th c.).
The Scripture Readings
1
Oh, that you would bear with me in a little folly-and indeed you do bear with me.
2
For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
3
But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
4
For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted-you may well put up with it!
5
For I consider that I am not at all inferior to the most eminent apostles.
6
Even though I am untrained in speech, yet I am not in knowledge. But we have been thoroughly manifested among you in all things.
Luke 8:16-21
16
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.
17
For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light.
18
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.
20
And it was told Him by some, who said, “Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, desiring to see You.”
21
But He answered and said to them, “My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it.”
1 Corinthians 12:27-13:8 Unmercenaries
27
Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.
28
And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues.
29
Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles?
30
Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?
31
But earnestly desire the best gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent way.
1
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
2
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
4
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;
5
does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;
6
does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
7
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8
Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.
Matthew 10:1,5-8 Unmercenaries
1
And when He had called His twelve disciples to Him, He gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease.
5
These twelve Jesus sent out and commanded them, saying: “Do not go into the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter a city of the Samaritans.
6
But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
7
And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’
8
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.