Thursday October 24, 2024 / October 11, 2024
18th Week after Pentecost. Tone eight.
Holy Apostle Philip of the Seventy, one of the seven deacons (1st c.).
Venerable Theophanes the Confessor and Hymnographer, bishop of Nicaea (850).
Venerable Leonid of Optina (1841).
Synaxis of the Saints of Optina: St. Leonid (repose) (1841), St. Macarius (1860), St. Moses (1862), St. Anthony (1865), St. Hilarion (1873), St. Ambrose (1891), St. Anatole (the “Elder”) (1894), St. Isaac I (1894), St. Joseph (1911), St. Barsanuphius (1913), St. Anatole (the “Younger”) (1922), St. Nektary (1928), St. Nikon the Confessor (1931), New Hieromartyr Archimandrite Isaac II (1937).
New Hieromartyrs Philaret and Alexander priests (1918).
New Hieromartyr Juvenalius (Maslovsky) bishop of Riazan (1937).
Venerable Theophanes, faster of the Kiev Caves (12th c.).
Martyrs Zenaida (Zenais) and Philonilla of Tarsus in Cilicia (1st c.).
Sts. Nectarius (397), Arcadius (405), and Sinisius (427), patriarchs of Constantinople.
St. Gommar, patron of Lier (775) (Neth.).
Venerable Ethelburga, abbess of the monastery of Barking (England) (676) (Celtic & British.).
Venerable Cainnech (Kenneth), abbot of Aghaboe (Ireland) (600) (Celtic & British).
St. Philotheus (Kokkinos) of Mt. Athos, patriarch of Constantinople (1379).
Commemoration of the miracle from the Icon of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Beirut of Phonecia.
The Scripture Readings
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Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
1
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
2
Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise:
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that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.
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And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.
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Bondservants, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in sincerity of heart, as to Christ;
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not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,
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with goodwill doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men,
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knowing that whatever good anyone does, he will receive the same from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free.
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And you, masters, do the same things to them, giving up threatening, knowing that your own Master also is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him.
7
Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by Him; and he was perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead,
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and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen again.
9
Herod said, “John I have beheaded, but who is this of whom I hear such things?” So he sought to see Him.
10
And the apostles, when they had returned, told Him all that they had done. Then He took them and went aside privately into a deserted place belonging to the city called Bethsaida.
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But when the multitudes knew it, they followed Him; and He received them and spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and healed those who had need of healing.
Acts 8:26-39 Apostle
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Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise and go toward the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is desert.
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So he arose and went. And behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasury, and had come to Jerusalem to worship,
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was returning. And sitting in his chariot, he was reading Isaiah the prophet.
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Then the Spirit said to Philip, “Go near and overtake this chariot.”
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So Philip ran to him, and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”
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And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he asked Philip to come up and sit with him.
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The place in the Scripture which he read was this: He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; And as a lamb before its shearer is silent, So He opened not His mouth.
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In His humiliation His justice was taken away, And who will declare His generation? For His life is taken from the earth.”
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So the eunuch answered Philip and said, “I ask you, of whom does the prophet say this, of himself or of some other man?”
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Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning at this Scripture, preached Jesus to him.
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Now as they went down the road, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, “See, here is water. What hinders me from being baptized?”
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Then Philip said, “If you believe with all your heart, you may.” And he answered and said, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”
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So he commanded the chariot to stand still. And both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized him.
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Now when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, so that the eunuch saw him no more; and he went on his way rejoicing.
Luke 10:1-21 Apostle
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After these things the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them two by two before His face into every city and place where He Himself was about to go.
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Then He said to them, “The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.
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Go your way; behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.
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Carry neither money bag, knapsack, nor sandals; and greet no one along the road.
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But whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace to this house.’
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And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on it; if not, it will return to you.
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And remain in the same house, eating and drinking such things as they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Do not go from house to house.
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Whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you.
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And heal the sick there, and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’
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But whatever city you enter, and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say,
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‘The very dust of your city which clings to us we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of God has come near you.’
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But I say to you that it will be more tolerable in that Day for Sodom than for that city.
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Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
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But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you.
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And you, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades.
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He who hears you hears Me, he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me.
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Then the seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name.”
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And He said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
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Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
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Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.
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In that hour Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit and said, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to babes. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight.
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