Saturday December 13, 2025 / November 30, 2025
27th Week after Pentecost. Tone one.
Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Fish
Holy and All-praised Apostle Andrew the First-called (62).
St. Elias, schemamonk of Valaam and Verkhoturye (1900).
New Hieromartyr John priest (1937).
St. Frumentius, archbishop of Abyssinia (380).
St. Tudwal, bishop in Wales and Brittany (6th c.) (Celtic & British ).
St. Alexander, bishop of Methymna on Lesbos (Greek).
Sts. Peter I (5th c.) and Samuel I (5-6th c.), Catholicoses of Georgia.
St. Vakhtang Gorgasali, King of Georgia (502).
The Scripture Readings
Matthew 4:18-23 Matins Gospel
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And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.
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Then He said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
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They immediately left their nets and followed Him.
21
Going on from there, He saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. He called them,
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and immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed Him.
23
And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.
22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
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gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
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And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
25
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
26
Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
1
Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted.
2
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
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Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
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Sell what you have and give alms; provide yourselves money bags which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches nor moth destroys.
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For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
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Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning;
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and you yourselves be like men who wait for their master, when he will return from the wedding, that when he comes and knocks they may open to him immediately.
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Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, will find watching. Assuredly, I say to you that he will gird himself and have them sit down to eat, and will come and serve them.
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And if he should come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
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But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.
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Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
1 Corinthians 4:9-16 Apostle
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For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.
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We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored!
11
To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless.
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And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;
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being defamed, we entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.
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I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you.
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For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
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Therefore I urge you, imitate me.
John 1:35-51 Apostle
35
Again, the next day, John stood with two of his disciples.
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And looking at Jesus as He walked, he said, “Behold the Lamb of God!”
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The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
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Then Jesus turned, and seeing them following, said to them, “What do you seek?” They said to Him, “Rabbi” (which is to say, when translated, Teacher), “where are You staying?”
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He said to them, “Come and see.” They came and saw where He was staying, and remained with Him that day (now it was about the tenth hour).
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One of the two who heard John speak, and followed Him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.
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He first found his own brother Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which is translated, the Christ).
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And he brought him to Jesus. Now when Jesus looked at him, He said, “You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas” (which is translated, A Stone).
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The following day Jesus wanted to go to Galilee, and He found Philip and said to him, “Follow Me.”
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Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.
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Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found Him of whom Moses in the law, and also the prophets, wrote-Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
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And Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
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Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him, and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”
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Nathanael said to Him, “How do You know me?” Jesus answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”
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Nathanael answered and said to Him, “Rabbi, You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!”
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Jesus answered and said to him, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”
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And He said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.”