Kinder
“Be kinder than necessary because everyone is fighting their war or battle and suffering losses. Live simply, love generously, care deeply for the needs of your neighbor, speak softly… And leave the rest to the Lord. It is not faith, nor dogmatics, nor mysticism, nor asceticism, nor fasting, nor long prayers, but love that makes one a true Christian. Everything becomes pointless without this fundamental thing – love for our neighbor.”
Saint Luke, Archbishop of Crimea
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Tuesday December 31, 2024 / December 18, 2024
28th Week after Pentecost. Tone two.
Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Food with Oil
Martyr Sebastian at Rome and his companions: Martyrs Nicostratus, Zoe, Castorius, Tranquillinus, Marcellinus, Mark, Claudius, Symphorian, Victorinus, Tiburtius, and Castulus (287).
Martyr Victor (1937).
New Hieromartyr Thaddeus (Uspensky), archbishop of Tver (1937).
New Hieromartyrs Nicholas archbishop of Velikoustiuzh, James, John, Vladimir, and Nicholas priests (1937).
New Hieromartyr Sergius deacon and Virgin-martyr Vera (1942).
Venerable Sebastian, abbot of Poshekhonye Monastery (Vologda) (1500).
Glorification (1694) of Righteous Simeon, wonderworker of Verkhoturye (1642).
St. Modestus I, archbishop of Jerusalem (4th c.).
Venerable Florus, bishop of Amisus (7th c.).
Venerable Michael the Confessor at Constantinople (845).
Venerable Daniel the Hermit (Romania).
Martyr Eubotius at Cyzicus (318).
Venerable Winnibald, abbot and missionary of England and Heidenheim (Germany) (761) (Celtic & British).
Hieromartyr Zaccheus the Deacon and St. Alpheus the Reader of Caesarea (Greek).
St. Gatianus, first bishop of Tours (3rd c.).
St. Sophia the Wonderworker (Greek).
The Scripture Readings
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All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,
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that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
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I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom:
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Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.
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For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers;
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and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.
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The Pharisees came and asked Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” testing Him.
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And He answered and said to them, “What did Moses command you?”
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They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to dismiss her.”
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And Jesus answered and said to them, “Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
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But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.’
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‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
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‘and the two shall become one flesh’; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.
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Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.
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In the house His disciples also asked Him again about the same matter.
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So He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.
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And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.
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