Monday August 24, 2026 / August 11, 2026
13th Week after Pentecost. Tone three.
Dormition (Theotokos) Fast. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits)
Holy Martyr and Archdeacon Euplus of Catania (304).
Martyrs Basil and Theodore of the Kiev Caves (1098).
Venerable Theodore (in monasticism Theodosius) of the Kiev Caves, prince of Ostrog (1483).
St. John, recluse of Svyatogorsk Monastery (1867).
Virgin-martyr Susanna and those with her: Martyrs Gaius, pope of Rome; presbyter Gabinus, his brother and father of Susanna; Maximus, Claudius and his wife, Praepedigna, and their sons Alexander and Cutias (295).
St. Niphon, patriarch of Constantinople (Mt. Athos) (1515).
Venerable Passarion of Palestine.
St. Blaan, bishop of Bute (Dunblane), Scotland (590) (Celtic & British).
Commemoration of the Miracle (1816) of St. Spyridon (348) on Kerkyra (Corfu) with the Hagarenes (Greek).
New Martyrs Anastasius of Asomaton in Asia Minor and Demetrius of Lesbos (1816) (Greek).
St. Taurinus, first bishop of Evreux, Gaul (2nd c.).
Martyrs Neophytus, Zeno, Gaius, Mark, Macarius, and Gaianus (Greek).
The Scripture Readings
7
But as you abound in everything-in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all diligence, and in your love for us-see that you abound in this grace also.
8
I speak not by commandment, but I am testing the sincerity of your love by the diligence of others.
9
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.
10
And in this I give advice: It is to your advantage not only to be doing what you began and were desiring to do a year ago;
11
but now you also must complete the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to desire it, so there also may be a completion out of what you have.
12
For if there is first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what one has, and not according to what he does not have.
13
For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened;
14
but by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may supply their lack, that their abundance also may supply your lack-that there may be equality.
15
As it is written, “He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack.”
Mark 3:6-12
6
Then the Pharisees went out and immediately plotted with the Herodians against Him, how they might destroy Him.
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But Jesus withdrew with His disciples to the sea. And a great multitude from Galilee followed Him, and from Judea
8
and Jerusalem and Idumea and beyond the Jordan; and those from Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they heard how many things He was doing, came to Him.
9
So He told His disciples that a small boat should be kept ready for Him because of the multitude, lest they should crush Him.
10
For He healed many, so that as many as had afflictions pressed about Him to touch Him.
11
And the unclean spirits, whenever they saw Him, fell down before Him and cried out, saying, “You are the Son of God.”
12
But He sternly warned them that they should not make Him known.