Friday August 8, 2025 / July 26, 2025
9th Week after Pentecost. Tone seven.
Fast. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits)
Hieromartyrs Hermolaus (305), Hermippus, and Hermocrates at Nicomedia.
New Hieromartyr Sergius priest (1937).
Venerable Moses the Hungarian, of the Kiev Caves (1043).
Martyr Parasceve of Rome (138).
St. Jacob (Netsvetov) of Atka-Island and Ikogmute, mission priest to the Yup’ik on the Yukon River (1867).
Martyr Oriozela of Reuma in Byzantium (ca. 250) (Greek).
Venerable Ignatius, monk, of Mt. Stirion (Greek).
Virgin-martyr Jerusalem of Byzantium (Greek).
Venerable Gerontius, founder of the Skete of St. Anne, Mt. Athos (13th c.) (Greek).
St. Sava III, archbishop of Serbia (1316) (Greek).
The Scripture Readings
26
How is it then, brethren? Whenever you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.
27
If anyone speaks in a tongue, let there be two or at the most three, each in turn, and let one interpret.
28
But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in church, and let him speak to himself and to God.
29
Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge.
30
But if anything is revealed to another who sits by, let the first keep silent.
31
For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be encouraged.
32
And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
33
For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.
34
Let your women keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak; but they are to be submissive, as the law also says.
35
And if they want to learn something, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is shameful for women to speak in church.
36
Or did the word of God come originally from you? Or was it you only that it reached?
37
If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things which I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.
38
But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant.
39
Therefore, brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak with tongues.
40
Let all things be done decently and in order.
12
Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.
13
And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ”
14
Then the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them.
17
Then He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, and He lodged there.
18
Now in the morning, as He returned to the city, He was hungry.
19
And seeing a fig tree by the road, He came to it and found nothing on it but leaves, and said to it, “Let no fruit grow on you ever again.” Immediately the fig tree withered away.
20
And when the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree wither away so soon?”
Saturday Reading
Romans 14:6-9
6
He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.
7
For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.
8
For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.
9
For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
32
Now Jesus called His disciples to Himself and said, “I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now continued with Me three days and have nothing to eat. And I do not want to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way.”
33
Then His disciples said to Him, “Where could we get enough bread in the wilderness to fill such a great multitude?”
34
Jesus said to them, “How many loaves do you have?” And they said, “Seven, and a few little fish.”
35
So He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.
36
And He took the seven loaves and the fish and gave thanks, broke them and gave them to His disciples; and the disciples gave to the multitude.
37
So they all ate and were filled, and they took up seven large baskets full of the fragments that were left.
38
Now those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.
39
And He sent away the multitude, got into the boat, and came to the region of Magdala.