Tuesday July 22, 2025 / July 9, 2025
7th Week after Pentecost. Tone five.
Hieromartyr Pancratius, bishop of Taormina in Sicily (1st c.).
Venerable Gabriel, abbot of St. Elias Skete, Mt. Athos (1901).
New Hieromartyr Constantine priest (1918).
Hieromartyr Cyril, bishop of Gortyna in Crete (250-252).
Martyrs Patermuthius, Coprius, and Alexander the Soldier, in Egypt (361).
Sts. Patermuthius and Coprius, ascetics of Egypt (4th c.).
St. Theodore, bishop of Edessa (848).
“Cyprus” in the village of Stromyn (Moscow diocese) and “Koloch” (1413) Icons of the Mother of God.
Venerable Anthony Leokhnovsky (1611).
Venerable Euthymius of Karelia (1435).
Blessed Peter, hieromartyr of Cherevkov (Vologda) (16th-17th c.).
St. Everild, nun, of England (700) (Celtic & British).
Martyrs Andrew and Probus (Greek).
Venerables Dionysius the Rhetorician and Metrophanes of Mt. Athos (Greek).
Venerable Theodosius, stylite of Edessa (9th c.).
Venerable John of the Caves in Babylon.
Martyr Michael, disciple and the Kinsman of St. Theodore.
Martyr John (before holy baptism Moavy), king of Baghdad and with him the Three Holy Youths (9th c.).
New Hieromartyr Methodius of Amaria, Crete (1793).
Hieromartyr Killian, bishop in East Franconia and Thuringia, and his companions Hieromonk Colman and Hierodeacon Totman, at Wurzburg (689).
The Scripture Readings
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For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
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Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
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Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
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Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
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The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
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Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
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But I say this as a concession, not as a commandment.
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For I wish that all men were even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that.
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But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they remain even as I am;
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but if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
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Now to the married I command, yet not I but the Lord: A wife is not to depart from her husband.
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But even if she does depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to divorce his wife.
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But to the rest I, not the Lord, say: If any brother has a wife who does not believe, and she is willing to live with him, let him not divorce her.
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At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the report about Jesus
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and said to his servants, “This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him.”
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For Herod had laid hold of John and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife.
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Because John had said to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”
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And although he wanted to put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.
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But when Herod’s birthday was celebrated, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod.
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Therefore he promised with an oath to give her whatever she might ask.
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So she, having been prompted by her mother, said, “Give me John the Baptist’s head here on a platter.”
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And the king was sorry; nevertheless, because of the oaths and because of those who sat with him, he commanded it to be given to her.
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So he sent and had John beheaded in prison.
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And his head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother.
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Then his disciples came and took away the body and buried it, and went and told Jesus.
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When Jesus heard it, He departed from there by boat to a deserted place by Himself. But when the multitudes heard it, they followed Him on foot from the cities.
Monday Reading
1 Corinthians 5:9-6:11
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I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people.
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Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.
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But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner-not even to eat with such a person.
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For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside?
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But those who are outside God judges. Therefore “put away from yourselves the evil person.”
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Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?
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Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
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Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?
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If then you have judgments concerning things pertaining to this life, do you appoint those who are least esteemed by the church to judge?
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I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you, not even one, who will be able to judge between his brethren?
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But brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers!
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Now therefore, it is already an utter failure for you that you go to law against one another. Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather let yourselves be cheated?
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No, you yourselves do wrong and cheat, and you do these things to your brethren!
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Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,
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nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.
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And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
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When He had come to His own country, He taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, “Where did this Man get this wisdom and these mighty works?
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Is this not the carpenter’s son? Is not His mother called Mary? And His brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?
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And His sisters, are they not all with us? Where then did this Man get all these things?
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So they were offended at Him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house.”
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Now He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.