Do Diligence
“It will seem to you that there are many things to do, and you will fret and be ready to give up. But you do not think about this multitude of works, but take up the first one before you and do it with all diligence, as if there were no others at all, and you will do it calmly; then in the same way do the other works and you will do them all calmly, without confusion and trouble.”
Saint Nicodemus the Hagiorite
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Monday January 13, 2025 / December 31, 2024
30th Week after Pentecost. Tone four.
Sviatki. Fast-free
Apodosis of the Nativity of Christ.
Venerable Melania the Younger, nun, of Rome (439).
Venerable Paisius of Mount Athos (Glorification 2015).
New Hieromartyr Michael priest (1937).
Martyr Peter (1938).
Holy Confessor Dositheus, metropolitan of Zagreb (1945).
St. Peter Mogila, metropolitan of Kiev (1646).
Venerable Gelasius, monk, of Palestine.
Venerable Gaius, monk.
Venerable Theophylactus of Ochrid (1126).
Ten Virgin-martyrs of Nicomedia (Greek).
Venerable Zoticus of Constantinople, feeder of orphans (4th c.) (Greek).
St. Anysius, bishop of Thessalonica (406).
Venerable Sabiana, Abbess of the Samtskhe Monastery (11th c.).
Martyrs Busiris, Gaudentius and Nemo (Greek).
The Scripture Readings
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For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.
8
Because finding fault with them, He says: “Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah-
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not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the LORD.
10
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
11
None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.
12
For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.
13
In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
13
Then they sent to Him some of the Pharisees and the Herodians, to catch Him in His words.
14
When they had come, they said to Him, “Teacher, we know that You are true, and care about no one; for You do not regard the person of men, but teach the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?
15
Shall we pay, or shall we not pay? But He, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, “Why do you test Me? Bring Me a denarius that I may see it.”
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So they brought it. And He said to them, “Whose image and inscription is this?” They said to Him, “Caesar’s.”
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And Jesus answered and said to them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they marveled at Him.
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