Friday November 8, 2024 / October 26, 2024
20th Week after Pentecost. Tone two.
Fast. Food with Oil
Holy and Glorious Great-martyr Demetrius the Myrrh-gusher of Thessalonica (306).
Commemoration of the Great Earthquake at Constantinople in 740 A.D.
Venerable Theophilus of the Kiev Caves, bishop of Novgorod (1482).
Martyr Luppos (306).
Venerable Athanasius of Medikion Monastery (814).
Venerable Demetrius of Basarbov in Bulgaria (1685).
Venerable Demetrius (14th c.).
St. Anthony, bishop of Vologda (1588).
St. Cedd, bishop of Lastingham (664) (Celtic & British).
St. Eata, bishop of Hexham and abbot of Lindisfarne (686) (Celtic & British).
Martyr Ioasaph, monk of Mt. Athos, disciple of St. Niphon of Constantinople (1536) (Greek).
St. Alexander Okropiridze, bishop of Guria and Mingrelia, Georgia (1907) (Georgia).
Martyrs Artemidorus and Basil (Greek).
Martyr Leptina (Greek).
Martyr Glycon (Greek).
The Scripture Readings
Matthew 10:16-22 Matins Gospel
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Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
17
But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils and scourge you in their synagogues.
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You will be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.
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But when they deliver you up, do not worry about how or what you should speak. For it will be given to you in that hour what you should speak;
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for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
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Now brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.
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And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.
8
Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ
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and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
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that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,
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if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
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Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.
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Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,
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I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
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Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you.
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Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind.
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Brethren, join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern.
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For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
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whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame-who set their mind on earthly things.
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He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters.
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When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’
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And when he comes, he finds it swept and put in order.
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Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
2 Timothy 2:1-10 Epistle, St. Demetrius
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You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
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And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.
3
You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
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No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.
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And also if anyone competes in athletics, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.
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The hardworking farmer must be first to partake of the crops.
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Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.
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Remember that Jesus Christ, of the seed of David, was raised from the dead according to my gospel,
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for which I suffer trouble as an evildoer, even to the point of chains; but the word of God is not chained.
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Therefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
John 15:17-16:2 Gospel, St. Demetrius
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These things I command you, that you love one another.
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If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.
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If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
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Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.
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But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me.
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If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
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He who hates Me hates My Father also.
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If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have seen and also hated both Me and My Father.
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But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’
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But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me.
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And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning.
1
These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble.
2
They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service.
Hebrews 12:6-13; 25-27 Epistle, Earthquake
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For whom the LORD loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives.”
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If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?
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But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.
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Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?
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For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness.
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Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
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Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees,
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and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
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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,
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whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.”
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Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Matthew 8:23-27 Gospel, Earthquake
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Now when He got into a boat, His disciples followed Him.
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And suddenly a great tempest arose on the sea, so that the boat was covered with the waves. But He was asleep.
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Then His disciples came to Him and awoke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!”
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But He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.
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So the men marveled, saying, “Who can this be, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?”
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