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2025 |
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On Friday | January 24 |
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The Readings for the Commemoration |
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The Epistle |
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For the Devout Woman. |
The reading is from Paul’s Letter to the Galatians. |
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Gal. 5:22 – 26; 6:1 – 2 |
Brethren, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. Let us have no self-conceit, no provoking of one another, no envy of one another. Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Look to yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. [RSV] |
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The Gospel |
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(Previously skipped.) |
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Third Sunday of Matthew |
The reading is from the holy Gospel according to Matthew. |
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Mt. 6:22 – 33 |
The Lord said, “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light; but if your eye is not sound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add one hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O men of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear? For the Gentiles seek all these things; and your heavenly Father knows you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well.” [RSV] |
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Stand for the reading of the Synaxarion. |
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Synaxarion |
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From the Menaion. |
On January 24 we commemorate our holy mother Xenia and her two maid servants. |
On this day we also commemorate the holy martyrs Paul, Pafsirion, and Theodotion who were siblings. |
On this day we also commemorate the holy hieromartyr Babylas of Sicily, and Timothy and Agapios his disciples. |
On this day we also commemorate our devout father Macedonius. |
On this day was the translation of the relics of the devout martyr Anastasios of Persia. |
On this day we also commemorate the holy martyrs Hermogenes and Menas; our devout father Filo, bishop of Carpasia; and our devout father Philip the priest; also the holy martyr Barsimus and his two brothers. |
On this day St. Helladios the public clerk died the sword. |
On this day the devout St. Zosimas reposed in peace. |
On this day we also commemorate the holy Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John, near the Taurus. |
We also commemorate our devout father Dionysius of Olympus. |
We also commemorate our devout father Neophytos the Recluse who lived as an ascetic on Cyprus. |
By the intercessions of Your Saints, O God, have mercy on us. Amen. |
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Fasting Rule |
Strict: Refrain from meat, fish, oil, dairy, and eggs. |
It is a Wednesday or Friday. |