Wednesday November 19, 2025 / November 6, 2025
24th Week after Pentecost. Tone six.
Fast. Food with Oil
St. Paul the Confessor, archbishop of Constantinople (350).
Venerable Barlaam, abbot of Khoutyn (Novgorod) (1192).
New Hieromartyrs Nicitas bishop of Orekhovo-Zuev, Anatoly, Arsenius, Nicholas, Nicholas, Constantine priests, Hieromartyrs Barlaam, Gabriel, Gabriel, Woman Hieromartyrs Nina and Seraphima (1937).
New Hieromartyr Basil priest (1938).
New Martyr Gregory the Cross-bearer (1936).
St. Elias Fondaminskii of Paris (1942).
Synaxis of the New Martyrs of Sarov: Anatole, Basil, Hierotheus, Isaac, and Rufinus.
Repose of St. Herman, archbishop of Kazan (1567).
Venerable Luke, steward of the Kiev Caves (13th c.).
Venerable Barlaam of Keret Lake (16th c.).
Virgin-martyrs Tecusa, Alexandra, Claudia, Matrona, Polactia, Euphrosyne, and Athanasia of Ancyra (303).
Venerable Luke, monk, of Sicily (820).
Venerable Winnocus, abbot (716) (Neth.).
St. Leonard of Noblac (559) (Gaul).
Venerable Illtyd, abbot of Llanilltyd Fawr, disciple of St. Germanus of Auxerre (England) (6th c.) (Celtic & British).
St. Cowey of Portaferry, abbot of Moville (8th c.) (Celtic & British).
St. Demetrianus, bishop of Cytheria in Cyprus (915).
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;
2
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;
4
that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
5
not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God;
6
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.
7
For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness.
8
Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit.
9
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;
10
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;
11
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,
12
that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing.
48
But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.
49
I came to send fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!
50
But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am till it is accomplished!
51
Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all, but rather division.
52
For from now on five in one house will be divided: three against two, and two against three.
53
Father will be divided against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
54
Then He also said to the multitudes, “Whenever you see a cloud rising out of the west, immediately you say, ‘A shower is coming’; and so it is.
55
And when you see the south wind blow, you say, ‘There will be hot weather’; and there is.
56
Hypocrites! You can discern the face of the sky and of the earth, but how is it you do not discern this time?
57
Yes, and why, even of yourselves, do you not judge what is right?
58
When you go with your adversary to the magistrate, make every effort along the way to settle with him, lest he drag you to the judge, the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.
59
I tell you, you shall not depart from there till you have paid the very last mite.