Sunday September 6, 2026 / August 24, 2026
14th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone five.
Synaxis of all saints of Moscow (movable holiday on the Sunday before August 26th, Russian Orthodox Church – the Moscow Patriarchate).
Hieromartyr Eutychius (1st c.), disciple of St. John the Theologian.
Translation of the relics of St. Peter, metropolitan of Kiev (1479).
New Hieromartyr Maximus Sandovich priest (1914).
New Hieromartyr Priests Michael Voskresensky, and those with him, of Nizhni-Novgorod (1918).
Venerable Aristoclius elder of Moscow (1918).
New Hieromartyr Seraphim (1946).
Venerable Arsenius, abbot of Komel (Vologda) (1550).
Martyr Tation at Claudiopolis (305).
Virgin-martyr Cyra of Persia (558).
Venerable George Limniotes the Confessor of Mt. Olympus (716).
Equal-to-the-Apostles Cosmas of Aitolia (1779).
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Petrovskaya” (“of St. Peter of Moscow”) (1306).
St. Martyrius, ArchBishop of Novgorod (1199).
Commemorating the appearance of Our Most Holy Lady, the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary to Venerable Sergius, abbot, of Radonezh (1385).
St. Dionysius of Zakynthos, archbishop of Aegina (1622).
St. Serapion the Wonderworker, abbot of the Monastery of St. John the Baptist at Garesja, Georgia (1747) (Georgia).
The Scripture Readings
Mark 16:9-20 (3rd Matins Gospel)
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Now when He rose early on the first day of the week, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom He had cast seven demons.
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She went and told those who had been with Him, as they mourned and wept.
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And when they heard that He was alive and had been seen by her, they did not believe.
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After that, He appeared in another form to two of them as they walked and went into the country.
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And they went and told it to the rest, but they did not believe them either.
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Later He appeared to the eleven as they sat at the table; and He rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen.
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And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
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He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.
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And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues;
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they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.
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So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.
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And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen.
2 Corinthians 1:21-2:4
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Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God,
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who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.
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Moreover I call God as witness against my soul, that to spare you I came no more to Corinth.
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Not that we have dominion over your faith, but are fellow workers for your joy; for by faith you stand.
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But I determined this within myself, that I would not come again to you in sorrow.
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For if I make you sorrowful, then who is he who makes me glad but the one who is made sorrowful by me?
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And I wrote this very thing to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow over those from whom I ought to have joy, having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all.
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For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you, with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have so abundantly for you.
Matthew 22:1-14
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And Jesus answered and spoke to them again by parables and said:
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The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who arranged a marriage for his son,
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and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding; and they were not willing to come.
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Again, he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, See, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fatted cattle are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding.” ‘
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But they made light of it and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his business.
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And the rest seized his servants, treated them spitefully, and killed them.
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But when the king heard about it, he was furious. And he sent out his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
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Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.
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‘Therefore go into the highways, and as many as you find, invite to the wedding.’
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So those servants went out into the highways and gathered together all whom they found, both bad and good. And the wedding hall was filled with guests.
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But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man there who did not have on a wedding garment.
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So he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless.
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Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
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For many are called, but few are chosen.
Hebrews 7:26-8:2 St. Peter
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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. Peter
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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.
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And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.