Friday August 7, 2026 / July 25, 2026
10th Week after Pentecost. Tone eight.
Fast. Food with Oil
The Dormition of the Righteous Anna, mother of the Most Holy Theotokos.
Holy Women Olympias (Olympiada) the Deaconess of Constantinople (409), and the Virgin Eupraxia of Tabenna (413).
Venerable Macarius, abbot of Zheltovod and Unzha (1444).
New Hieromartyr Nicholas priest (1918).
New Hieromartyr Alexander priest (1927).
St. Gregory (Kallidis), metropolitan of Thessalonica and Heraclea (1925).
New Hieromartyrs Vukosav Milanovic and Rodoljub Samardzic of Kulen Bakufa, Serbia (1941-1945).
New Hieromartyr Theodore Tonkovid, priest of Lovets (Pskov) (1942).
St. Iraida confessor (1967).
Commemoration of the Holy 165 Fathers of the Fifth Ecumenical Council (553).
Martyrs Sanctus, Maturus, Attalus, Blandina, Vivlia, Vetius, Epagathus, Ponticus, Alexander and others at Lyons (177) (Gaul).
Venerable Christopher, abbot of Solvychegodsk (Vologda) (1572).
New Hieromartyrs Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich, Nicholas (Johnson) and Peter (Remes).
The Scripture Readings
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For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.
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For we are not writing any other things to you than what you read or understand. Now I trust you will understand, even to the end
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(as also you have understood us in part), that we are your boast as you also are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.
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And in this confidence I intended to come to you before, that you might have a second benefit-
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to pass by way of you to Macedonia, to come again from Macedonia to you, and be helped by you on my way to Judea.
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Therefore, when I was planning this, did I do it lightly? Or the things I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, that with me there should be Yes, Yes, and No, No?
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But as God is faithful, our word to you was not Yes and No.
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For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us-by me, Silvanus, and Timothy-was not Yes and No, but in Him was Yes.
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For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.
Matthew 22:23-33
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The same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him and asked Him,
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saying: “Teacher, Moses said that if a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.
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Now there were with us seven brothers. The first died after he had married, and having no offspring, left his wife to his brother.
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Likewise the second also, and the third, even to the seventh.
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Last of all the woman died also.
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Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had her.
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Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.
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For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven.
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But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying,
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‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”
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And when the multitudes heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.
Galatians 4:22-31 Righteous Anna
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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 Righteous Anna
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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.”