Tuesday September 2, 2025 / August 20, 2025
13th Week after Pentecost. Tone three.
Prophet Samuel (6th c. B.C.).
New Hieromartyrs Joseph Baranov, Alexander Malinivsky, Leo Ershov, and Vladimir Chetverin priests (1918).
New Hieromartyr Nicholas Beriukov priest (1919).
Uncovering of the relics of Hieromartyr Hermogenes (Germogen), bishop of Tobolsk (2005).
Hieromartyr Philip, bishop of Heraclea, and with him Martyrs Severus, Memnon, and 37 soldiers at Plovdiv in Thrace (304).
Martyr Lucius the Senator of Cyprus (ca. 310).
Martyrs Heliodorus and Dosa (Dausa) in Persia (380).
Putting in again the relics of St. John, bishop of Suzdal and St. Theodore, bishop of Rostov and Suzdal (1879).
Martyr Photina, at the Church of Blachernae (Greek).
St. Philibert of Jumieges (685) (Gaul).
St. Oswin, king and martyr of Northumbria (651) (Celtic & British).
The Scripture Readings
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But thanks be to God who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.
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For he not only accepted the exhortation, but being more diligent, he went to you of his own accord.
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And we have sent with him the brother whose praise is in the gospel throughout all the churches,
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and not only that, but who was also chosen by the churches to travel with us with this gift, which is administered by us to the glory of the Lord Himself and to show your ready mind,
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avoiding this: that anyone should blame us in this lavish gift which is administered by us-
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providing honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
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And we have sent with them our brother whom we have often proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, because of the great confidence which we have in you.
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If anyone inquires about Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker concerning you. Or if our brethren are inquired about, they are messengers of the churches, the glory of Christ.
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Therefore show to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love and of our boasting on your behalf.
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Now concerning the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you;
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for I know your willingness, about which I boast of you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal has stirred up the majority.
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Yet I have sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this respect, that, as I said, you may be ready;
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lest if some Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we (not to mention you!) should be ashamed of this confident boasting.
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Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren to go to you ahead of time, and prepare your generous gift beforehand, which you had previously promised, that it may be ready as a matter of generosity and not as a grudging obligation.
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And He went up on the mountain and called to Him those He Himself wanted. And they came to Him.
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Then He appointed twelve, that they might be with Him and that He might send them out to preach,
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and to have power to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons:
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Simon, to whom He gave the name Peter;
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James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James, to whom He gave the name Boanerges, that is, “Sons of Thunder”;
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Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Cananite;
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and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed Him. And they went into a house.