Thursday October 1, 2026 / September 18, 2026
18th Week after Pentecost. Tone eight.
Venerable Eumenes, bishop of Gortyna (7th c.).
Glorification (1698) of Venerable Euphrosyne, nun, of Suzdal (1250).
Venerable Hilarion of Optina (1873).
New Hieromartyrs Alexis and Peter priests (1918).
New Hieromartyrs Amphilius bishop of Krasnoiarsk, John, Boris, Michael, Vladimir, Benjamin, Constantine priests and Martyr Sergius (1937).
Martyr Ariadne of Phrygia (2nd c.).
Martyrs Sophia and Irene of Egypt (3rd c.).
Martyr Castor of Alexandria.
Great-martyr Prince Bidzini and Martyrs Prince Elizbar and Prince Shalva of Ksani, Georgia (1661) (Georgia).
Synaxis of New Martyrs and Confessors of Vladimir region.
Molchensk (1405), named the “Healer” (18th C) and Starorussk (returned in 1888) Icons of the Mother of God.
St. Arcadius, bishop of Novgorod (1162).
The Scripture Readings
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Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
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Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
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Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise:
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that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.
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And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.
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Bondservants, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in sincerity of heart, as to Christ;
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not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,
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with goodwill doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men,
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knowing that whatever good anyone does, he will receive the same from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free.
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And you, masters, do the same things to them, giving up threatening, knowing that your own Master also is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him.
Matthew 24:13-28
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But he who endures to the end shall be saved.
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And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
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Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (whoever reads, let him understand),
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then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
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Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house.
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And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes.
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But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!
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And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath.
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For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.
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And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened.
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Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There!’ do not believe it.
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For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
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See, I have told you beforehand.
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Therefore if they say to you, ‘Look, He is in the desert!’ do not go out; or ‘Look, He is in the inner rooms!’ do not believe it.
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For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
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For wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered together.