Wisdom Made
“When thou lookest up to heaven and gazest at the beauty of the stars, pray to the Lord of the visible world; pray to God the Arch-artificer of the universe, Who in wisdom hath made them all.”
St. Basil the Great
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Tuesday January 21, 2025 / January 8, 2025
31st Week after Pentecost. Tone five.
St. George the Chozebite, abbot (7th c.) and St. Emilian Bishop of Cyzicus (9th c.).
Venerable Domnica of Constantinople (395).
Venerable Gregory, wonderworker of the Kiev Caves (1093).
Venerable Gregory, hermit of the Kiev Caves (14th c.).
Hieromartyr Isidore and 72 companions at Yuriev (Dorpats) in Estonia, slain by the Latins in 1472.
New Hieromartyr Victor priest (1937).
New Hieromartyrs Demetrius, Vladimir priests, Paphnutius, Martyr Michael (1938).
New Hieromartyr Basil priest (1939).
Martyr John (1940).
St. Michael confessor, priest (1941).
Venerable Paisius of Uglich (1504).
Hieromartyr Carterius of Caesarea in Cappadocia (304).
Martyrs Theophilus the Deacon and Helladius in Libya (4th c.).
Martyrs Julian and his wife Basilissa, and with them Marcionilla and her son Celsus, Anthony, Anastasius, seven children, and twenty soldiers, at Antinoe in Egypt (313).
Venerable Elias the Hermit of Egypt (4th c.).
Martyr Abo the Perfumer of Baghdad, who suffered at Tbilisi, Georgia (786) (Georgia).
Sts. Atticus (425) and Cyrus (714), patriarchs of Constantinople.
Venerable Agatho of Egypt, monk (4th c.)
Holy Virgin Gudula of Brussels (659) (Celtic & British).
St. Gregory of Ochrid, bishop of Moesia (1012) (Bulgaria).
St. Severinus, apostle of Noricum, Austria (482).
St. Theodore of Constantinople (595).
St. Erhard, bishop of Regensburg (Bavaria) (700).
St. Emilian the Confessor, bishop of Cyzicus (9th c.).
St. Macarius (Macres) of Vatopedi, Mt. Athos (1431).
St. Severin, bishop of Cologne (397).
St. Nathalan of Aberdeenshire.
St. Pega, hermitess, of Peakirk.
St. Wulsin, bishop of Sherborne.
The Scripture Readings
25
See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven,
26
whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.”
22
And I appeal to you, brethren, bear with the word of exhortation, for I have written to you in few words.
23
Know that our brother Timothy has been set free, with whom I shall see you if he comes shortly.
24
Greet all those who rule over you, and all the saints. Those from Italy greet you.
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Grace be with you all. Amen.
2
The Pharisees came and asked Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” testing Him.
3
And He answered and said to them, “What did Moses command you?”
4
They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to dismiss her.”
5
And Jesus answered and said to them, “Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
6
But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.’
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‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
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‘and the two shall become one flesh’; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.
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Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.
10
In the house His disciples also asked Him again about the same matter.
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So He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.
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And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.