Orthodoxy is Our Life
When we Orthodox Christians greet each other at the Divine Liturgy, and the other services of the Church, it is critical that we remember that we are family. We must lift each other up in prayer. We must love one another. We must give thanks that we are part of the Body of Christ. To do anything else is to betray our faith. Orthodoxy is not just simply a club we belong to; Orthodoxy is our life, and if we don’t treat it as such, we are failing in our faith, and we are failing our brothers and sisters.
With Love in Christ,
Abbot Tryphon
Monday, September 03, 2024 (7533) / Monday, September 16, 2024
Monday of the 13th week after Pentecost; Tone III
No fast
✺ Hieromartyr Anthimus, Bishop of Nicomedia, and those with him: Theophilus the Deacon, Dorotheus, Mardonius, Migdonius, Peter, Indis, Gorgonius, Xeno, Domna the Virgin and Euthimius († 302)
✺ Venerable Theoctistus († 467)
Hieromartyr Aristonus, Bishop of Alexandria
Martyr Basilissa of Nicomedia († 309)
St. Phœbe the Deaconess at Cenchreæ (1st C)
St Anastasius I, Patriarch of Jerusalem
Blessed John “the Hairy” and Fool-For-Christ at Rostov († 1580)
Saint Joannicius, Archbishop of Serbia († 1349)
New Hieromartyr Pimen, bishop of Vernyi († 1918)
Daily Scripture Readings
Litrugy: (Monday of the 13th week after Pentecost);
8 I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
10 And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.
11 Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.
12 For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
13 For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:
14 But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:
15 As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack.
(Monday of the 13th week after Pentecost);
7 But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea,
8 And from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came unto him.
9 And he spake to his disciples, that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.
10 For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues.
11 And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.
12 And he straitly charged them that they should not make him known.
(Hieromartyr Anthimus);
8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. (End Palm Sunday)
9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. (End for Councils)
**(334) July 16: Commemoration of the Councils: “Brethren, remember…”
10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
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