Tuesday July 8, 2025 / June 25, 2025
5th Week after Pentecost. Tone three.
Apostles’ (Peter & Paul) Fast. Fish Allowed
Virgin-martyr Febronia of Nisibis (304).
Venerable Nikon the Confessor of Optina (1931).
New Hieromartyrs Nicholas and Basil priests (1918).
New Hieromartyr Basil priest (1940).
Prince Peter (1228) and Princess Febronia (tonsured David and Euphrosyne), wonderworkers of Murom.
Venerable Dalmatus, abbot and founder of the Dormition Monastery in Siberia (1697)..
Venerables Leonis, Libye, and Eutropia of Syria.
Venerable Symeon of Sinai (5th c.).
Venerables Dionysius and Dometius (1380) of the Monastery of the Forerunner (Dionysiou), Mt. Athos (Greek).
New Martyr Procopius of Varna and Mt. Athos, who suffered at Smyrna (1810) (Greek).
New Martyr George of Attalia (1823) (Greek).
Martyr Gallicianus the Patrician in Egypt (362).
St. Adelbert, archdeacon (740) (Neth.).
St. Theoleptus, metropolitan of Philadelphia (1322).
St. Moluac of Lismore (592) (Celtic & British).
The Scripture Readings
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For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
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But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you show contempt for your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
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For it is written: “As I live, says the LORD, Every knee shall bow to Me, And every tongue shall confess to God.”
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So then each of us shall give account of himself to God.
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Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather resolve this, not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brother’s way.
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I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
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Yet if your brother is grieved because of your food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died.
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Therefore do not let your good be spoken of as evil;
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for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
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For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.
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Then the Pharisees went out and plotted against Him, how they might destroy Him.
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But when Jesus knew it, He withdrew from there. And great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them all.
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Yet He warned them not to make Him known,
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Then one was brought to Him who was demon-possessed, blind and mute; and He healed him, so that the blind and mute man both spoke and saw.
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And all the multitudes were amazed and said, “Could this be the Son of David?”
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Now when the Pharisees heard it they said, “This fellow does not cast out demons except by Beelzebub, the ruler of the demons.”
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But Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.
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If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?
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And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges.
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But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you.
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Or how can one enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house.
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He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad.
Monday Reading
Romans 12:4-5, 15-21
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For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function,
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so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.
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Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.
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Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own opinion.
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Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men.
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If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men.
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Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.
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Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; If he is thirsty, give him a drink; For in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.”
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Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
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Now when He had departed from there, He went into their synagogue.
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And behold, there was a man who had a withered hand. And they asked Him, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”-that they might accuse Him.
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Then He said to them, “What man is there among you who has one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift it out?
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Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.
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Then He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and it was restored as whole as the other.