Wednesday September 2, 2026 / August 20, 2026
14th Week after Pentecost. Tone four.
Fast. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits)1Prophet 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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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.
Mark 4:35-41
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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!”