Tuesday November 25, 2025 / November 12, 2025
25th Week after Pentecost. Tone seven.
St. John the Merciful, patriarch of Alexandria (620).
Venerable Nilus the Faster of Sinai (451).
New Hieromartyr Alexander priest (1918).
New Hieromartyrs Constantine Uspensky, Vladimir Krasnovsky, Alexander Arkhangelsky, Matthew Aloin, Demetrius Rozanov, Peter Kosminkov priests and Symeon Krechkov deacon (1937).
New Hieromartyr Boris (1942).
Blessed John “the Hairy,” fool-for-Christ at Rostov (1580).
Prophet Ahijah (Achias) (960 B.C.).
St. Nilus the Myrrh-gusher of Mt. Athos (1651).
“The Merciful” Icon of the Mother of God.
New Martyr Sabbas Nigdelinus of Constantinople (1726) (Greek).
New Martyr Nicholas of Constantinople (1726).
St. Leontius, patriarch of Constantinople (1143).
Venerable Emilian of Vergegio in Iberia.
Venerable Lebuinus, missionary monk of the Netherlands (Netherlands).
St. Machar, bishop of Aberdeen (Scotland) (6th c.) (Celtic & British).
St. Sinell of Cleenish (6th c.) (Celtic & British).
St. Cadwaladr, king of the Welsh (664) (Celtic & British).
Synaxis of the Russian New Martyrs of Optina: Anatolius, Barnabas, Dositheus, Nectarius, Panteleimon and Vincent.
The Scripture Readings
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when He comes, in that Day, to be glorified in His saints and to be admired among all those who believe, because our testimony among you was believed.
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Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power,
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that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you,
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not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come.
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Now great multitudes went with Him. And He turned and said to them,
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If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.
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And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.
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For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it-
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lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,
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saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’
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Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
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Or else, while the other is still a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks conditions of peace.
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So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple.
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Salt is good; but if the salt has lost its flavor, how shall it be seasoned?
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It is neither fit for the land nor for the dunghill, but men throw it out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!
Wednesday Reading
2 Thessalonians 2:1-12
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Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you,
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not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come.
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Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,
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who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
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Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?
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And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time.
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For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.
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And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.
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The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,
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and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
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And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,
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that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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Then all the tax collectors and the sinners drew near to Him to hear Him.
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And the Pharisees and scribes complained, saying, “This Man receives sinners and eats with them.”
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So He spoke this parable to them, saying:
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What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it?
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And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
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And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’
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I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.
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Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it?
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And when she has found it, she calls her friends and neighbors together, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the piece which I lost!’
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Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.