Teacher Experience
“As it is impossible to verbally describe the sweetness of honey to one who has never tasted honey, so the goodness of God cannot be clearly communicated by way of teaching if we ourselves are not able to penetrate into the goodness of the Lord by our own experience.”
Saint Basil the Great
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Friday June 27, 2025 / June 14, 2025
3rd Week after Pentecost. Tone one.
Apostles’ (Peter & Paul) Fast. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits)
Prophet Elisha (10th c. B.C.).
St. Methodius, patriarch of Constantinople (847).
Finding of the relics (1992) of New Hieromartyr Vladimir, Metropolitan of Kiev.
New Hieromartyr Joseph priest (1918).
New Hieromartyrs Nicholas, Alexander, Paul priests and Nicholas deacon (1938).
St. Mstislav-George, prince of Novgorod (1180).
Venerable Methodius, abbot of Peshnosha (1392).
Venerable Elisha, monk, of Suma (Solovki) (15th- 16th c.).
Synaxis of All Saints of Diveyevo.
Venerable Niphon, monk of Kapsokalyvia, Mt. Athos (1330).
Venerable Julitta (Julia) of Tabenna in Egypt.
St. John (Mavropos), metropolitan of Euchaita (1100).
St. Joseph, bishop of Thessalonica, brother of St. Theodore of the Studion (830).
St. Sabbas the Fool-for-Christ of Vatopedi, Mt. Athos (1349).
St. Dogmael, monk of Pembrokeshire..
St. Cyril of Gortyne.
The Scripture Readings
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But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For they are not all Israel who are of Israel,
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nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, “In Isaac your seed shall be called.”
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That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as the seed.
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For this is the word of promise: “At this time I will come and Sarah shall have a son.”
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And not only this, but when Rebecca also had conceived by one man, even by our father Isaac
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(for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who calls),
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it was said to her, “The older shall serve the younger.”
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As it is written, “Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.”
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What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not!
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For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.”
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So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.
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For the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.”
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Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens.
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You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?”
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Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.
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But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.
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Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword.
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For I have come to ‘set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’;
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and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.’
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Now it came to pass, when Jesus finished commanding His twelve disciples, that He departed from there to teach and to preach in their cities.