Saturday November 8, 2025 / October 26, 2025
22nd Week after Pentecost. Tone four.
Holy and Glorious Great-martyr Demetrius the Myrrh-gusher of Thessalonica (306).
Commemoration of the Great Earthquake at Constantinople in 740 A.D.
Venerable Theophilus of the Kiev Caves, bishop of Novgorod (1482).
Martyr Luppos (306).
Venerable Athanasius of Medikion Monastery (814).
Venerable Demetrius of Basarbov in Bulgaria (1685).
Venerable Demetrius (14th c.).
St. Anthony, bishop of Vologda (1588).
St. Cedd, bishop of Lastingham (664) (Celtic & British).
St. Eata, bishop of Hexham and abbot of Lindisfarne (686) (Celtic & British).
Martyr Ioasaph, monk of Mt. Athos, disciple of St. Niphon of Constantinople (1536) (Greek).
St. Alexander Okropiridze, bishop of Guria and Mingrelia, Georgia (1907) (Georgia).
Martyrs Artemidorus and Basil (Greek).
Martyr Leptina (Greek).
Martyr Glycon (Greek).
The Scripture Readings
Matthew 10:16-22 Matins Gospel
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Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
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But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils and scourge you in their synagogues.
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You will be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.
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But when they deliver you up, do not worry about how or what you should speak. For it will be given to you in that hour what you should speak;
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for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
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Now brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.
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And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.
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For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
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For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,
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if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked.
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For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life.
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Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
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So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord.
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For we walk by faith, not by sight.
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We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
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Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him.
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For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
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No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a vessel or puts it under a bed, but sets it on a lampstand, that those who enter may see the light.
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For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light.
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Therefore take heed how you hear. For whoever has, to him more will be given; and whoever does not have, even what he seems to have will be taken from him.
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Then His mother and brothers came to Him, and could not approach Him because of the crowd.
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And it was told Him by some, who said, “Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, desiring to see You.”
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But He answered and said to them, “My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it.”
2 Timothy 2:1-10 Epistle, St. Demetrius
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You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
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And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.
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You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
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No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.
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And also if anyone competes in athletics, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.
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The hardworking farmer must be first to partake of the crops.
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Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.
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Remember that Jesus Christ, of the seed of David, was raised from the dead according to my gospel,
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for which I suffer trouble as an evildoer, even to the point of chains; but the word of God is not chained.
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Therefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
John 15:17-16:2 Gospel, St. Demetrius
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These things I command you, that you love one another.
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If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.
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If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
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Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.
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But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me.
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If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
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He who hates Me hates My Father also.
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If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have seen and also hated both Me and My Father.
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But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’
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But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me.
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And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning.
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These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble.
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They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service.
Hebrews 12:6-13; 25-27 Epistle, Earthquake
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For whom the LORD loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives.”
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If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?
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But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.
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Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?
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For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness.
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Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
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Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees,
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and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
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See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven,
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whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.”
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Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Matthew 8:23-27 Gospel, Earthquake
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Now when He got into a boat, His disciples followed Him.
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And suddenly a great tempest arose on the sea, so that the boat was covered with the waves. But He was asleep.
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Then His disciples came to Him and awoke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!”
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But He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.
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So the men marveled, saying, “Who can this be, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?”