2025

On Sunday | August 17

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The Readings from the Regular Cycle

The Epistle

Tenth Sunday

The reading is from Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians.

1 Cor. 4:9 – 16

Brethren, God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men. We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill-clad and buffeted and homeless, and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become, and are now, as the refuse of the world, the off-scouring of all things. I do not write this to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. I urge you, then, be imitators of me. [RSV]

The Gospel

Tenth Sunday of Matthew

The reading is from the holy Gospel according to Matthew.

Mt. 17:14 – 23

At that time, a man came up to Jesus and kneeling before him said, “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and he suffers terribly; for often he falls into the fire, and often into the water. And I brought him to your disciples, and they could not heal him.” And Jesus answered, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me.” And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon came out of him, and the boy was cured instantly. Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?” He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move hence to yonder place,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you. But this kind never comes out except by prayer and fasting.” As they abode in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of man is to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him, and he will be raised on the third day.” [RSV]

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Stand for the reading of the Synaxarion.

Synaxarion

From the Menaion.

On August 17 we commemorate the holy Martyr Myron.

On this day we also commemorate the holy Martyrs Straton, Phillip, Eftychianos and Cyprian.

On this day we also commemorate the holy Martyrs Paul and his sister Juliana.

On this day we also commemorate the holy Martyrs Thyrsus, Leucius, Coronatus, and those with them; and the Synaxis in Armatios in honor of our most holy Lady Theotokos and ever-virgin Mary.

We also commemorate the holy, devout monastic Martyr Demetrios the New, from Samarina, Epiros, who contested in the year 1808.

By the intercessions of Your Saints, O God, have mercy on us. Amen.

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Fasting Rule

Fast Free: All foods allowed.