Monday November 17, 2025 / November 4, 2025
24th Week after Pentecost. Tone six.
Venerable Ioannicius the Great of Bithynia (846).
Hieromartyrs Nicander, bishop of Myra, and Hermas, presbyter (1st c.).
Martyr Nicholas confessor and priest (1931).
Virgin-martyr Eugene (1935).
New Hieromartyr Alexander priest (1937).
New Hieromartyr Ismail priest (1941).
Venerable Mercurius, faster of the Kiev Caves (14th c.).
Venerable Nicander, abbot of Gorodensk (Novgorod) (1607).
Blessed Simon of Yurievets (1584).
St. Paul, metropolitan of Tobolsk (1770).
St. Sylvia, mother of St. Gregory the Dialogist (6th c.).
Martyr Porphyrius the Mime of Caesarea (361) (Greek).
St. John III Doukas Vataxis the Merciful, emperor of Nicaea (1254) (Greek).
Holy and Righteous Ioane, Stepane, and Isaiah the Georgians (Georgia).
St. Clether, hermit of Cornwall..
St. Birnstan, bishop of Winchester.
The Scripture Readings
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For you are our glory and joy.
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Therefore, when we could no longer endure it, we thought it good to be left in Athens alone,
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and sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God, and our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and encourage you concerning your faith,
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that no one should be shaken by these afflictions; for you yourselves know that we are appointed to this.
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For, in fact, we told you before when we were with you that we would suffer tribulation, just as it happened, and you know.
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For this reason, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor might be in vain.
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But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you always have good remembrance of us, greatly desiring to see us, as we also to see you-
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therefore, brethren, in all our affliction and distress we were comforted concerning you by your faith.
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For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
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Then one from the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
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But He said to him, “Man, who made Me a judge or an arbitrator over you?”
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And He said to them, “Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses.”
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Then He said to His disciples, “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; nor about the body, what you will put on.
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Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
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Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which have neither storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds?
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And which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
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If you then are not able to do the least, why are you anxious for the rest?
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Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
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If then God so clothes the grass, which today is in the field and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith?
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And do not seek what you should eat or what you should drink, nor have an anxious mind.
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For all these things the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knows that you need these things.
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But seek the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added to you.