Love Christ
“It is easy to become good, if only you come to love Christ. To want to be pleasing to Him is enough. Christ will help you to live in His Grace.”
St. Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia
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Friday December 6, 2024 / November 23, 2024
24th Week after Pentecost. Tone six.
Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Food with Oil
St. Amphilochius, bishop of Iconium (394).
St. Gregory, bishop of Agrigentum (680).
St. Alexander Nevsky (in schema Alexis), grand prince of Novgorod (1263).
St. Metrophanes (in schema Macarius), bishop of Voronezh (1703).
New Hieromartyr Seraphim (1931).
St. John confessor (1932).
New Hieromartyr Boris bishop of Ivanonsk, Eleazar Spyridonov of Eupatoria priest, Crimea and Martyr Alexander (1937).
New Martyr Archimandrite Gregory (Peradze) of Georgia, who suffered in Auschwitz, Poland (1942).
St. Sisinius the confessor, bishop of Cyzicus (ca. 325).
Martyr Theodore of Antioch (4th c.).
Venerable Ischyrion, bishop in Egypt and hermit of Scete.
St. Amphilochius of the Kiev Caves, bishop of Volhynia (1122).
St. Anthony of lezeru-Vilcea (1714) (Romania).
Venerable Trudo, abbot (693) (Neth.).
St. Helenus of Tarsus, bishop (Greek).
St. Dionysius I, patriarch of Constantinople (15th c.).
The Scripture Readings
Matthew 11:27-30 Matins Gospel
27
All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.
28
Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29
Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
30
For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.
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For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
10
who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.
11
Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.
12
And we urge you, brethren, to recognize those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord and admonish you,
13
and to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.
24
He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.
25
Brethren, pray for us.
26
Greet all the brethren with a holy kiss.
27
I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read to all the holy brethren.
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The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
12
Therefore He said: “A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.
13
So he called ten of his servants, delivered to them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Do business till I come.’
14
But his citizens hated him, and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We will not have this man to reign over us.’
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And so it was that when he returned, having received the kingdom, he then commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading.
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Then came the first, saying, ‘Master, your mina has earned ten minas.’
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And he said to him, ‘Well done, good servant; because you were faithful in a very little, have authority over ten cities.’
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And the second came, saying, ‘Master, your mina has earned five minas.’
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Likewise he said to him, ‘You also be over five cities.’
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Then another came, saying, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I have kept put away in a handkerchief.
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‘For I feared you, because you are an austere man. You collect what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.’
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And he said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I was an austere man, collecting what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow.
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‘Why then did you not put my money in the bank, that at my coming I might have collected it with interest?’
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And he said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina from him, and give it to him who has ten minas.’
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(“But they said to him, ‘Master, he has ten minas.’)
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‘For I say to you, that to everyone who has will be given; and from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
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‘But bring here those enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, and slay them before me.’ ”
28
When He had said this, He went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.
Galatians 5:22-6:2 St. Alexander
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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
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gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
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And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
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If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
26
Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
1
Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted.
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Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Matthew 11:27-30 St. Alexander
27
All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.
28
Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29
Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
30
For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.
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