“Compel yourselves; say the prayer; stop idle talk; close your mouths to criticism; place doors and locks against unnecessary words. Time passes and does not come back, and woe to us if time goes by without spiritual profit.”
Geronda Ephraim of Arizona & Philotheou
Saturday November 9, 2024 / October 27, 2024
20th Week after Pentecost. Tone two.
Martyr Nestor of Thessalonica (306).
New Hieromartyr Sergius (1942).
Venerable Nestor the Chronicler of the Kiev Caves (1114).
Venerable Nestor (not the Chronicler) of the Kiev Caves (14th c.).
Uncovering of the relics (1539) of St. Andrew, prince of Smolensk (1390).
Martyrs Capitolina and Eroteis of Cappadocia (304).
Martyr Mark of the isle of Thasos (304).
St. Cyriacus, patriarch of Constantinople (1390).
St. Procla, wife of Pontius Pilate (1st c.).
New Hieromartyr Seraphim (Samojlovich) bishop of Uglich.
St. Demetrius of Basarbov in Bulgaria (12th-13th c.).
St. Odran, monk of Iona.
St. Ia, virgin of Cornwall.
Hierarch Alexander, Bishop of Guria and Samegrelo (1907) (Georgia)
The Scripture Readings
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For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of our trouble which came to us in Asia: that we were burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life.
9
Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead,
10
who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver us; in whom we trust that He will still deliver us,
11
you also helping together in prayer for us, that thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf for the gift granted to us through many.
16
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.
17
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.
19
Then His mother and brothers came to Him, and could not approach Him because of the crowd.
20
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.”
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