I am asking for your continued prayers on my behalf. The trauma of two spinal surgeries, and a stroke, followed by spending most of the summer in a hospital and a care center, has left me feeling rather debilitated. I’m exhausted most of the time, and sleeping a good part of each day. Please forgive me for not being on top of providing spiritual nurture and support to all of you. If it please God, and by your prayers, I will return to my old self.
With love in Christ,
Abbot Tryphon
Tuesday October 1, 2024 / September 18, 2024
15th Week after Pentecost. Tone five.
Venerable Eumenes, bishop of Gortyna (7th c.).
Glorification (1698) of Venerable Euphrosyne, nun, of Suzdal (1250).
Venerable Hilarion of Optina (1873).
New Hieromartyrs Alexis and Peter priests (1918).
New Hieromartyrs Amphilius bishop of Krasnoiarsk, John, Boris, Michael, Vladimir, Benjamin, Constantine priests and Martyr Sergius (1937).
Martyr Ariadne of Phrygia (2nd c.).
Martyrs Sophia and Irene of Egypt (3rd c.).
Martyr Castor of Alexandria.
Great-martyr Prince Bidzini and Martyrs Prince Elizbar and Prince Shalva of Ksani, Georgia (1661) (Georgia).
Synaxis of New Martyrs and Confessors of Vladimir region.
Molchensk (1405), named the “Healer” (18th C) and Starorussk (returned in 1888) Icons of the Mother of God.
St. Arcadius, bishop of Novgorod (1162).
The Scripture Readings
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21 |
I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain. |
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O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? |
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2 |
This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? |
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3 |
Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? |
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4 |
Have you suffered so many things in vain-if indeed it was in vain? |
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5 |
Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?- |
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6 |
just as Abraham “believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” |
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7 |
Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. |
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23 |
Now Jesus Himself began His ministry at about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, the son of Heli, |
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24 |
the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Janna, the son of Joseph, |
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25 |
the son of Mattathiah, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai, |
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26 |
the son of Maath, the son of Mattathiah, the son of Semei, the son of Joseph, the son of Judah, |
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27 |
the son of Joannas, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri, |
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28 |
the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmodam, the son of Er, |
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29 |
the son of Jose, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, |
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30 |
the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonan, the son of Eliakim, |
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31 |
the son of Melea, the son of Menan, the son of Mattathah, the son of Nathan, the son of David, |
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32 |
the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon, |
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33 |
the son of Amminadab, the son of Ram, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah, |
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34 |
the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor, |
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35 |
the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah, |
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36 |
the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, |
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37 |
the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel, the son of Cainan, |
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38 |
the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God. |
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Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, |