Wednesday November 11, 2026 / October 29, 2026
24th Week after Pentecost. Tone six.
Fast. Food with Oil1Virgin-martyr Anastasia the Roman (256).
Venerable Abramius the Recluse (360) and his niece St. Mary, of Mesopotamia (397).
Venerable Abramius, archimandrite of Rostov (Valaam) (1073).
New Hieromartyrs Nicholas priest and with him Cosma, Victor, Naum, Philip, John, Paul, Andrew, Paul, Basil, Alexis, John and Virgin-martyr Agaphia (1918).
New Hieromartyr John priest (1930).
New Hieromartyr Eugene priest (1937).
Virgin-martyr Anastasia (after 1937).
New Hieromartyr Leonid priest (1941).
Martyrs Claudius, Asterius, Neon, and Theonilla, of Aegae in Cilicia (285).
Venerable Anna (known as Euphemianus) of Constantinople (826).
Venerable Abramius, recluse of the Kiev Caves (12th-13th c.).
Venerablemartyr Anastasius.
Venerable Ermelindis, hermitess (6th c.) (Neth.).
New Martyr Athanasius of Sparta, at Muatanach (1653) (Greek).
Martyr Timothy of Esphigmenou Monastery, Mt. Athos (1820) (Greek).
Martyr Melitene of Marcionopolis (Greek).
Martyrs Cyril, Menas, and Menaeus (Greek).
St. Rostislav, prince of Moravia, Czechoslovakia (870).
St. Serapion of Zarzma, Georgia (900) (Georgia).
The Scripture Readings
1
Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God;
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for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
3
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality;
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that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
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not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God;
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that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified.
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For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness.
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Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit.
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But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another;
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and indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, that you increase more and more;
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that you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,
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that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing.
Luke 11:9-13
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So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
10
For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
11
If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish?
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Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
13
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!
Galatians 5:22-6:2 St. Abramius
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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
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gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
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And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
25
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
26
Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
1
Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted.
2
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Matthew 11:27-30 St. Abramius
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All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.
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Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
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Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
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For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.