Live in the Present
Wednesday December 11, 2024 / November 28, 2024
25th Week after Pentecost. Tone seven.
Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Fast.
Martyr Stephen the New of Mt. St. Auxentius (767).
Martyr Hirenarchus and Seven Women-martyrs at Sebaste (303).
New Hieromartyr Seraphim (Chichagov), metropolitan of St. Petersburg (1937).
New Hieromartyrs Alexis Veselovsky, Alexis Smirnov priests, Hieromartyrs Raphael Tiupin, Vincent Nikolsky , Basil Zavgorodny deacon and Virgin-martyr Anysia Maslanova (1937).
Virgin-Martyr Paraskeva (1938).
New Hieromartyr Nicholas priest (1941).
Uncovering of the relics of Venerable Sergius Srebriansky (2000).
Blessed Theodore, archbishop of Rostov (1394).
Martyrs Basil, Stephen, two Gregories, John (near Constantinople), Andrew, Peter, Anna, and many others (741-775).
Martyrs Timothy and Theodore, bishops; Peter, John, Sergius, Theodore, and Nicephorus, presbyters; Basil and Thomas, deacons; Hierotheus, Daniel, Chariton, Socrates, Comasius, and Eusebius, monks; and Etymasius at Tiberiopolis (361).
New Martyr Christos of Constantinople (1748) (Greek).
St. Theodore, bishop of Theodosiopolis in Armenia (end of 6th c.).
St. Oda, virgin of Brabant (726) (Neth.).
Virgin-Martyr Juthwara of Cornwall.
The Scripture Readings
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Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you,
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not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come.
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Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,
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who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
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Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?
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And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time.
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For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.
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And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.
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The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,
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and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
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And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,
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that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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Now it happened on one of those days, as He taught the people in the temple and preached the gospel, that the chief priests and the scribes, together with the elders, confronted Him
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and spoke to Him, saying, “Tell us, by what authority are You doing these things? Or who is he who gave You this authority?”
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But He answered and said to them, “I also will ask you one thing, and answer Me:
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The baptism of John-was it from heaven or from men?
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And they reasoned among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will say, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’
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But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.
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So they answered that they did not know where it was from.
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And Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”
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