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On Thursday | June 12 |
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2025 |
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June 12 |
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Memory of our Devout Father Onoufrios |
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The Readings from Vespers the Previous Evening |
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The Readings from the Regular Cycle |
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The Epistle |
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Thursday of the 1st Week |
The reading is from Paul’s Letter to the Romans. |
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Rom. 1:28 – 32; 2:1 – 9 |
Brethren, since the ungodly did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct. They were filled with all manner of wickedness, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity, they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God’s decree that those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do them but approve those who practice them. Therefore you have no excuse, O man, whoever you are, when you judge another; for in passing judgment upon him you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, are doing the very same things. We know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon those who do such things. Do you suppose, O man, that when you judge those who do such things and yet do them yourself, you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you presume upon the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience? Do you not know that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? But by your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. For he will render to every man according to his works; to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are factious and do not obey the truth, but obey wickedness, there will be wrath and fury. There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek. [RSV] |
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The Gospel |
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Thursday of the 1st Week of Matthew |
The reading is from the holy Gospel according to Matthew. |
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Mt. 5:27 – 32 |
The Lord said, “You have heard that it was said to the men of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into Gehenna. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into Gehenna. It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ But I say to you that every one who divorces his wife, except on the ground of unchastity, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.” [RSV] |
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The Readings for the Commemoration |
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Memory of our Devout Father Onoufrios |
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The Epistle |
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For the Devout Saints. |
The reading is from Paul’s Letter to the Romans. |
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Rom. 8:14 – 21 |
Brethren, all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the spirit of sonship. When we cry, “Abba! Father!” it is the Spirit himself bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him. I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God; for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God. [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 June 12 we commemorate our devout Father Onouphrios of Egypt. |
On this day we also commemorate our righteous Father Peter of Athos. |
On this day we also commemorate the Holy Martyr Antonina. |
On this day we commemorate Holy John the soldier; and our devout Fathers Zeno and Triphyllios the Bishop; and our devout Father Julian in Dagatos (or Dagazos). |
By their holy intercessions, Christ God, have mercy on us. Amen. |
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Fasting Rule |
Fast Free: All foods allowed. |
It is Pentecost week. |