Wednesday September 10, 2025 / August 28, 2025
14th Week after Pentecost. Tone four.
Fast. Food with Oil
Venerable Moses the Black of Scete (400).
Uncovering of the relics of Venerable Job of Pochaev (1651).
New Hieromartyr Alexis (1918).
New Martyrs Archimandrite Sergius (Zaytsev) and monks of Zilantov Monastery of Kazan (1918) hieromonks Laurecnce (Nikitin), Seraphim (Kuz’min), hierodeacon Theodosius (Alexandrov), monks Leontius (Kariagin), Stephen, brothers Gregory (Timofeev), Hylarion (Pravdin), John (Sretensky), Sergius (Galin) (1918).
New Hieromartyr Alexander, deacon (1918).
New Hieromartyr Nicholas priest (1931).
New Hieromartyr Basil priest (1937).
Synaxis of the Saints of the Kiev Caves whose relics repose in the Far Cave of Venerable Theodosius.
Venerable Sabbas, abbot of Krypetsk (1495).
Righteous Anna the Prophetess and Daughter of Phanuel, who met the Lord at the Temple in Jerusalem (1st c.).
Martyr Queen Shushaniki (Susanna) of Georgia (475) (Georgia).
St. Amphilochius, bishop of Vladimir, Volhynia (1122).
Righteous Hezekiah, king of Judah (691 B.C.).
Venerable Theodore (Monk Theodosius of the Kiev Caves), prince of Ostrog (1483).
New Hieromartyr Chrysostom, metropolitan of Smyrna (1922) (Greek).
33 Martyrs of Nicomedia (Greek).
Martyrs Diomedes and Laurence (Greek).
The Scripture Readings
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since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but mighty in you.
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For though He was crucified in weakness, yet He lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of God toward you.
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Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?-unless indeed you are disqualified.
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But I trust that you will know that we are not disqualified.
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Now I pray to God that you do no evil, not that we should appear approved, but that you should do what is honorable, though we may seem disqualified.
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For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
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For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. And this also we pray, that you may be made complete.
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Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the authority which the Lord has given me for edification and not for destruction.
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Finally, brethren, farewell. Become complete. Be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
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Greet one another with a holy kiss.
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All the saints greet you.
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On the same day, when evening had come, He said to them, “Let us cross over to the other side.”
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Now when they had left the multitude, they took Him along in the boat as He was. And other little boats were also with Him.
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And a great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that it was already filling.
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But He was in the stern, asleep on a pillow. And they awoke Him and said to Him, “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?”
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Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace, be still!” And the wind ceased and there was a great calm.
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But He said to them, “Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith?”
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And they feared exceedingly, and said to one another, “Who can this be, that even the wind and the sea obey Him!”
Thursday Reading
Galatians 1:1-10, 20-2:5
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Paul, an apostle (not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Him from the dead),
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and all the brethren who are with me, To the churches of Galatia:
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Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,
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who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
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to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
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I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel,
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which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ.
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But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.
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As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.
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For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.
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(Now concerning the things which I write to you, indeed, before God, I do not lie.)
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Afterward I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
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And I was unknown by face to the churches of Judea which were in Christ.
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But they were hearing only, “He who formerly persecuted us now preaches the faith which he once tried to destroy.”
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And they glorified God in me.
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Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and also took Titus with me.
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And I went up by revelation, and communicated to them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those who were of reputation, lest by any means I might run, or had run, in vain.
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Yet not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.
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And this occurred because of false brethren secretly brought in (who came in by stealth to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage),
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to whom we did not yield submission even for an hour, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
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Then they came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gadarenes.
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And when He had come out of the boat, immediately there met Him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
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who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no one could bind him, not even with chains,
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because he had often been bound with shackles and chains. And the chains had been pulled apart by him, and the shackles broken in pieces; neither could anyone tame him.
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And always, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying out and cutting himself with stones.
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When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and worshiped Him.
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And he cried out with a loud voice and said, “What have I to do with You, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I implore You by God that You do not torment me.”
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For He said to him, “Come out of the man, unclean spirit!”
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Then He asked him, “What is your name?” And he answered, saying, “My name is Legion; for we are many.”
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Also he begged Him earnestly that He would not send them out of the country.
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Now a large herd of swine was feeding there near the mountains.
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So all the demons begged Him, saying, “Send us to the swine, that we may enter them.”
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And at once Jesus gave them permission. Then the unclean spirits went out and entered the swine (there were about two thousand); and the herd ran violently down the steep place into the sea, and drowned in the sea.
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So those who fed the swine fled, and they told it in the city and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that had happened.
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Then they came to Jesus, and saw the one who had been demon-possessed and had the legion, sitting and clothed and in his right mind. And they were afraid.
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And those who saw it told them how it happened to him who had been demon-possessed, and about the swine.
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Then they began to plead with Him to depart from their region.
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And when He got into the boat, he who had been demon-possessed begged Him that he might be with Him.
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However, Jesus did not permit him, but said to him, “Go home to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how He has had compassion on you.”
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And he departed and began to proclaim in Decapolis all that Jesus had done for him; and all marveled.