Rouse Yourselves!
“Rouse yourselves! The world which you worship only flatters you. The heaviness of your flesh should not keep you back from our Saviour—the God of spirits and of all flesh. If you continue to drowse, you will imperceptibly fall under the influence of the evil spirits, who are anxious for the company even of swine. Be careful that you become not possessed by a devil.”
St Sebastian Dabović
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Saturday January 25, 2025 / January 12, 2025
31st Week after Pentecost. Tone five.
Saturday after the Baptism of Our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ
Venerable Pachomius of Kensk (16th c.) (movable holiday on the Saturday after the Baptism of Our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ).
Martyr Tatiana of Rome (226-235).
St. Sava I, first archbishop of Serbia (1235).
Venerable Martinian of White Lake, abbot (1483), and Galacteon, his disciple (1506).
Martyr Mertius of Mauretania (284-305).
Martyr Peter Apselamus of Eleutheropolis in Palestine (309).
Venerable Eupraxia of Tabenna in Egypt (393).
Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos “Akathist” and “The Milk-giver”.
Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos “Popskaya”.
Virgin Martyr Euthasia.
Venerable Benedict Bishop, abbot of Wearmouth (689-690) (Celtic & British).
Eight Martyrs of Nicaea (Greek).
St. Elias the Wonderworker, of the Paradise (Greek).
St. Theodora of Alexandria, instructress of nuns (5th c.).
Martyr Philotheus of Antioch (ca. 305).
The Scripture Readings
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We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
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since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of your love for all the saints;
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because of the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,
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which has come to you, as it has also in all the world, and is bringing forth fruit, as it is also among you since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;
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He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much.
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Therefore if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
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And if you have not been faithful in what is another man’s, who will give you what is your own?
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No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
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Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they derided Him.
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And He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
Hebrews 7:26-8:2 St. Sava
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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.
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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.
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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,
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a Minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man.
John 10:9-16 St. Sava
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I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
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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.
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I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.
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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.
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The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep.
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I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own.
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As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.
Ephesians 6:10-17 Saturday After
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Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.
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Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
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For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
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Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
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Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
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and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
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above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.
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And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;
Matthew 4:1-11 Saturday After
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Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
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And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry.
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Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”
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But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ”
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Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple,
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and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written: ‘He shall give His angels charge over you,’ and, ‘In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone.’ ”
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Jesus said to him, “It is written again, ‘You shall not tempt the LORD your God.’ ”
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Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
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And he said to Him, “All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me.”
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Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the LORD your God, and Him only you shall serve.’ ”
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Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and ministered to Him.
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