Friday September 19, 2025 / September 6, 2025
15th Week after Pentecost. Tone five.
Fast.
Commemoration of the Miracle of the Archangel Michael at Colossae (Chonae) (4th c.).
Martyr Eudoxius, and with him Martyrs Zeno, Macarius, and 1,104 soldiers in Melitene (311).
New Hieromartyr Demetrius priest (1918).
New Hieromartyrs Constantine, John and Vsevolod priests (1937).
Venerable Archippus of Hierapolis (4th c.).
Martyrs Romulus and 11,000 others in Armenia (2nd c.).
Hieromartyr Cyril, bishop of Gortyna (3rd-4th c.).
Martyrs Cyriacus, Faustus, Abibus, and 11 others at Alexandria (250).
Venerable David of Hermopolis in Egypt (6th c.).
Kiev-Bratsk (1654) and Arabia Icons of the Mother of God.
Martyrs Calodote, Macarius, Andrew, Cyriacus, Dionysius, Andrew the Soldier, Andropelagia, Thecla, Theoctistus, and Sarapabon the Senator, in Egypt (256).
St. Beya, virgin, first abbess of Copeland in Cumbria (7th c.) (Celtic & British).
St. Magnus of Fussen, enlightener of the Allgau region of Germany (750-772).
The Scripture Readings
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But then, indeed, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods.
9
But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage?
10
You observe days and months and seasons and years.
11
I am afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain.
12
Brethren, I urge you to become like me, for I became like you. You have not injured me at all.
13
You know that because of physical infirmity I preached the gospel to you at the first.
14
And my trial which was in my flesh you did not despise or reject, but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
15
What then was the blessing you enjoyed? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me.
16
Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?
17
They zealously court you, but for no good; yes, they want to exclude you, that you may be zealous for them.
18
But it is good to be zealous in a good thing always, and not only when I am present with you.
19
My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you,
20
I would like to be present with you now and to change my tone; for I have doubts about you.
21
Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?
45
Immediately He made His disciples get into the boat and go before Him to the other side, to Bethsaida, while He sent the multitude away.
46
And when He had sent them away, He departed to the mountain to pray.
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Now when evening came, the boat was in the middle of the sea; and He was alone on the land.
48
Then He saw them straining at rowing, for the wind was against them. Now about the fourth watch of the night He came to them, walking on the sea, and would have passed them by.
49
And when they saw Him walking on the sea, they supposed it was a ghost, and cried out;
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for they all saw Him and were troubled. But immediately He talked with them and said to them, “Be of good cheer! It is I; do not be afraid.”
51
Then He went up into the boat to them, and the wind ceased. And they were greatly amazed in themselves beyond measure, and marveled.
52
For they had not understood about the loaves, because their heart was hardened.
53
When they had crossed over, they came to the land of Gennesaret and anchored there.
Hebrews 2:2-10 Epistle, Angels
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For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward,
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how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him,
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God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will?
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For He has not put the world to come, of which we speak, in subjection to angels.
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But one testified in a certain place, saying:”What is man that You are mindful of him, Or the son of man that You take care of him?
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You have made him a little lower than the angels; You have crowned him with glory and honor, And set him over the works of Your hands.
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You have put all things in subjection under his feet.” For in that He put all in subjection under him, He left nothing that is not put under him. But now we do not yet see all things put under him.
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But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone.
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For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
Luke 10:16-21 Gospel, Angels
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He who hears you hears Me, he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me.
17
Then the seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name.”
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And He said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
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Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
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Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.
21
In that hour Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit and said, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to babes. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight.