Sate Your Soul
“A satiated soul mocks honeycombs, but to a hungry soul, even bitter things appear sweet.”
Proverbs 27:7
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Monday June 9, 2025 / May 27, 2025
Day Of the Holy Spirit. Tone seven.
Fast-free Week. Fast-free
“Tupichevsk” and “Cyprus” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (movable holiday on the Day Of the Holy Spirit).
Hieromartyr Therapon, bishop of Sardis (259).
Translation of the relics (1667) of Venerable Nilus of Stolben Island (1554).
Venerable Therapontes, abbot of Byelozersk (White Lake) (1426).
Translation of the relics (1472) of Sts. Cyprian (1406), Photius (1431), and Jonah (1461), metropolitans of Kiev.
Venerable Therapontes, abbot of Monza (1597).
St. John the Russian, whose relics are on the island of Euboea (1730).
Virgin-martyr Theodora and Martyr Didymus the Soldier of Alexandria (304).
Martyr Julius the Veteran at Dorostolum, Moesia (302) (Romania).
Venerable Bede the Venerable (735) (Celtic & British).
Venerable Michael of Parekhi (8th-9th c.) (Georgia).
St. Basil of Khakhuli, son of King Bagrat III (11th c.) (Georgia).
Martyr Eusebiotus (Greek).
Martyr Alypius (Greek).
The Scripture Readings
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For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
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(for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth),
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finding out what is acceptable to the Lord.
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And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.
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For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.
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But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light.
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Therefore He says: “Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light.”
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See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise,
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redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
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Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
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And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit,
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speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,
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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.
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For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost.
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What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go to the mountains to seek the one that is straying?
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And if he should find it, assuredly, I say to you, he rejoices more over that sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.
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Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
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Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother.
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But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that ‘by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.’
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And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector.
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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.
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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.
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For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.