Tuesday July 29, 2025 / July 16, 2025
8th Week after Pentecost. Tone six.
Hieromartyr Athenogenes, bishop of Heracleopolis, and his ten disciples (311).
New Hieromartyrs Seraphim, Theognostus, and others of Alma-Ata (1921).
St. Magdalena, schema-abbess of New Tikhvin Convent in Siberia (1934).
New Confessor Matrona Belyakova, fool-for-Christ of Anemnyasevo (1936).
New Hieromartyr James archbishop of Barnaul and with him Hieromartyrs Peter and John priests, Hieromartyr Theodore and Martyr John (1937).
Hieromartyr Ardalion (1938).
Martyrs Paul and two sisters, Chionia (Thea) and Alevtina (Valentina), at Caesarea in Palestine (308).
Martyr Antiochus, physician of Sebaste (4th c.).
Virgin-martyr Julia of Carthage (440).
Commemoration of the Fourth Ecumenical Council (451).
“Chirsk” (1420) (“Pskovsky”) Icon of the Mother of God.
Synaxis of Russian Saints glorified on Moscow Councils in 1547 and 1549.
Martyr Helier of Jersey (6th c.) (Celtic & British).
1,015 Martyrs of Pisidia (Greek).
Martyr Athenogenes (Greek).
New Martyr John of Turnovo (1822).
St. Plechelm, bishop of Odilienberg.
St. Tenenan, bishop of Leon.
Martyr-hermit Hilier of Jersey.
The Scripture Readings
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But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
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Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted.
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And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”
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Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell;
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nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents;
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nor complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer.
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Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.
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Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.
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Then Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.”
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And they reasoned among themselves, saying, “It is because we have taken no bread.”
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But Jesus, being aware of it, said to them, “O you of little faith, why do you reason among yourselves because you have brought no bread?
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Do you not yet understand, or remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took up?
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Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many large baskets you took up?
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How is it you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread?-but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
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Then they understood that He did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Monday Reading
1 Corinthians 9:13-18
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Do you not know that those who minister the holy things eat of the things of the temple, and those who serve at the altar partake of the offerings of the altar?
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Even so the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel.
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But I have used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should be done so to me; for it would be better for me to die than that anyone should make my boasting void.
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For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for necessity is laid upon me; yes, woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!
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For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.
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What is my reward then? That when I preach the gospel, I may present the gospel of Christ without charge, that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel.
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Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing Him asked that He would show them a sign from heaven.
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He answered and said to them, “When it is evening you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red’;
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and in the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! You know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times.
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A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. And He left them and departed.
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Now when His disciples had come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread.
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Then Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.”