Get Over Yourself
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Saturday January 11, 2025 / December 29, 2024
29th Week after Pentecost. Tone three.
Sviatki. Fast-free
Saturday after the Nativity of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ
The 14,000 Infants (Holy Innocents) slain by Herod at Bethlehem (1st c.).
Venerable Marcellus, abbot of the monastery of the Unsleeping Ones (485).
St.Basiliscus the Hesychast of Siberia (1824).
New Hieromartyr Theodosius priests (1938).
Virgin-martyrs Natalia, Natalia, Eudokia, Anna, Matrona, Barbara, Anna, Eudokia, Ephrosia, Agrippina and Natalia (1942).
Venerable Mark the Grave-digger of the Kiev Caves (11th c.).
Sts. Theophilus and John of the Kiev Caves (11th-12th c.).
Venerable Theophilus of Luga and Omutch (1412).
Venerable Laurence of Chernigov (1950).
Venerable Thaddeus, confessor, of the Studion (818).
Venerable Benjamin, monk, of Nitria in Egypt (392).
Venerable Athenodorus, disciple of St. Pachomius the Great (4th c.).
St. George, bishop of Nicomedia (9th c.).
St. Trophimus, first bishop of Aries (3rd c.).
Commemoration of all Orthodox Christians who died from hunger, thirst, the sword, and freezing.
The Scripture Readings
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Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh-who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands-
12
that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
13
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:15-21 Martyrs
3
Take heed to yourselves. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.
4
And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day returns to you, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.
5
And the apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”
6
So the Lord said, “If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.
7
And which of you, having a servant plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’?
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But will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare something for my supper, and gird yourself and serve me till I have eaten and drunk, and afterward you will eat and drink’?
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Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I think not.
10
So likewise you, when you have done all those things which you are commanded, say, ‘We are unprofitable servants. We have done what was our duty to do.’
Matthew 2:13-23 Martyrs
15
and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.
16
Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer.
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Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
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Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,
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that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
20
Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God.
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For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
1 Timothy 6:11-16 Saturday After the Nativity
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But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness.
12
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
13
I urge you in the sight of God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus who witnessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate,
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that you keep this commandment without spot, blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ’s appearing,
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which He will manifest in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords,
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who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.
Matthew 12:15-21 Saturday After the Nativity
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But when Jesus knew it, He withdrew from there. And great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them all.
16
Yet He warned them not to make Him known,
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that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying:
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Behold! My Servant whom I have chosen, My Beloved in whom My soul is well pleased! I will put My Spirit upon Him, And He will declare justice to the Gentiles.
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He will not quarrel nor cry out, Nor will anyone hear His voice in the streets.
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A bruised reed He will not break, And smoking flax He will not quench, Till He sends forth justice to victory;
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And in His name Gentiles will trust.”
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