“Christ wants you never, in any way, for any reason, to cultivate a spirit of hatred, bitterness, anger or ill-feeling. The four gospels proclaim that on every page.”
St. Maximus the Confessor
Thursday November 14, 2024 / November 1, 2024
21st Week after Pentecost. Tone three.
Holy Wonderworkers and Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian of Mesopotamia, and their mother St. Theodota (3rd c.).
New Hieromartyrs Alexander and Theodore priests (1918).
New Hieromartyrs Sergius archbishop of Eletsk, Alexander and Demetrius priests, Virgin-martyr Elizabeth (1937).
Martyr Peter (1941).
Hieromartyrs John the Bishop and James the Presbyter, of Persia (345).
Martyrs Cyrenia and Juliana in Cilicia (305).
Martyr Hermeningilda the Goth of Spain (586).
Martyrs Caesarius, Dacius, Sabbas, Sabinian, Agrippa, Adrian, and Thomas at Damascus (7th c.).
St. Cosmas of Verkhoturye (1704).
Martyrs James of Mt. Athos and his two disciples James and Dionysius (1520) (Greek).
Venerable David of Euboea (1589) (Greek).
Martyrs Cyprian and Juliana (Greek).
St. Cadfan, abbot of Bardsey Island.
New Virgin-martyr Helen of Sinope (18th c.).
The Scripture Readings
24
I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the church,
25
of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God which was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God,
26
the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints.
27
To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
28
Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.
29
To this end I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me mightily.
47
Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
48
In fact, you bear witness that you approve the deeds of your fathers; for they indeed killed them, and you build their tombs.
49
Therefore the wisdom of God also said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,’
50
that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,
51
from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah who perished between the altar and the temple. Yes, I say to you, it shall be required of this generation.
52
Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in you hindered.
53
And as He said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to assail Him vehemently, and to cross-examine Him about many things,
54
lying in wait for Him, and seeking to catch Him in something He might say, that they might accuse Him.
1
In the meantime, when an innumerable multitude of people had gathered together, so that they trampled one another, He began to say to His disciples first of all, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
1 Corinthians 12:27-13:8 Unmercenaries
27
Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.
28
And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues.
29
Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles?
30
Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?
31
But earnestly desire the best gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent way.
1
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
2
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
4
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;
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does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;
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does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
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bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8
Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.
Matthew 10:1,5-8 Unmercenaries
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And when He had called His twelve disciples to Him, He gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease.
5
These twelve Jesus sent out and commanded them, saying: “Do not go into the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter a city of the Samaritans.
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But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
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And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’
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Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.
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