Monday July 27, 2026 / July 14, 2026
9th Week after Pentecost. Tone seven.
Apostle Aquila of the Seventy, and St. Priscilla (1st c.).
New Hieromartyr Constantine priest (1918).
New Hieromartyr Nicholas priest (1933).
Venerable Stephen, abbot of Makhrishche (Vologda) (1406).
Martyr Justus at Rome (1st c.).
Venerable Ellius (Hellius) of Egypt (4th c.).
Venerable Onesimus, of Magnesia (4th c.).
Martyr John of Merv (Turkmenistan).
Venerable Nicodemus of Mt. Athos, spiritual writer (1809).
Sts. Vladimir and Agrippina wonderworkers of Rzhev
St. Marcellinus of Utrecht, priest (8th c.) (Neth.).
St. Joseph the Confessor, archbishop of Thessalonica (Greek).
St. Heraclius, patriarch of Alexandria (246).
The Scripture Readings
31
For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged.
32
But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
33
Therefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.
34
But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest you come together for judgment. And the rest I will set in order when I come.
1
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant:
2
You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to these dumb idols, however you were led.
3
Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.
4
There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5
There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord.
6
And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all.
Matthew 18:1-11
1
At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”
2
Then Jesus called a little child to Him, set him in the midst of them,
3
and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.
4
Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
5
Whoever receives one little child like this in My name receives Me.
6
But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
7
Woe to the world because of offenses! For offenses must come, but woe to that man by whom the offense comes!
8
If your hand or foot causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life lame or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into the everlasting fire.
9
And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire.
10
Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that in heaven their angels always see the face of My Father who is in heaven.
11
For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost.
Tuesday Reading
1 Corinthians 12:12-26
12
For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.
13
For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body-whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free-and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.
14
For in fact the body is not one member but many.
15
If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body?
16
And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body?
17
If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?
18
But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased.
19
And if they were all one member, where would the body be?
20
But now indeed there are many members, yet one body.
21
And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”
22
No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.
23
And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty,
24
but our presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacks it,
25
that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.
26
And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
Matthew 18:18-22; 19:1-2; 13-15
18
Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
19
Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven.
20
For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.
21
Then Peter came to Him and said, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?”
22
Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.
1
Now it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these sayings, that He departed from Galilee and came to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.
2
And great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them there.
13
Then little children were brought to Him that He might put His hands on them and pray, but the disciples rebuked them.
14
But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”
15
And He laid His hands on them and departed from there.