Monday February 9, 2026 / January 27, 2026
Meatfare week. Tone two.
Translation of the relics (437) of St. John Chrysostom, archbishop of Constantinople.
Venerable Peter of Egypt (5th c.).
New Martyr Demetrius at Constantinople (1784) (Greek).
Venerable Titus the Soldier, monk of the Kiev Caves.
New Hieromartyr Peter (Zverev) of Voronezh (1929).
St. Demetrius Klepinine, priest of Paris (1944).
Venerable Leonty (Stasevich) of Ivanovo (1972).
The Scripture Readings
18
Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour.
19
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.
20
But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.
21
I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
22
Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.
23
Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
24
Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.
25
And this is the promise that He has promised us-eternal life.
26
These things I have written to you concerning those who try to deceive you.
27
But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.
28
And now, little children, abide in Him, that when He appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.
29
If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him.
1
Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
2
Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
3
And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
4
Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.
5
And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin.
6
Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.
7
Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.
8
He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.
9
Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.
10
In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.
1
Now when they drew near Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, He sent two of His disciples;
2
and He said to them, “Go into the village opposite you; and as soon as you have entered it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has sat. Loose it and bring it.
3
And if anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord has need of it,’ and immediately he will send it here.
4
So they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door outside on the street, and they loosed it.
5
But some of those who stood there said to them, “What are you doing, loosing the colt?”
6
And they spoke to them just as Jesus had commanded. So they let them go.
7
Then they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their clothes on it, and He sat on it.
8
And many spread their clothes on the road, and others cut down leafy branches from the trees and spread them on the road.
9
Then those who went before and those who followed cried out, saying:”Hosanna! ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!’
10
Blessed is the kingdom of our father David That comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”
11
And Jesus went into Jerusalem and into the temple. So when He had looked around at all things, as the hour was already late, He went out to Bethany with the twelve.
John 10:1-9 Matins Gospel
1
Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
2
But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
3
To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
4
And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
5
Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.
6
Jesus used this illustration, but they did not understand the things which He spoke to them.
7
Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
8
All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.
9
I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
Hebrews 7:26-8:2 St. John
26
For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens;
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who does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people’s, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.
28
For the law appoints as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son who has been perfected forever.
1
Now this is the main point of the things we are saying: We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,
2
a Minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man.
John 10:9-16 St. John
9
I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
10
The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
11
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.
12
But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them.
13
The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep.
14
I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own.
15
As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.