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2025 |
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On Tuesday | August 19 |
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The Readings from the Regular Cycle |
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The Epistle |
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Tuesday of the 11th Week |
The reading is from Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians. |
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2 Cor. 2:14 – 17; 3:1 – 3 |
Brethren, thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumph, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things? For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God’s word; but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ. Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you? You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all men; and you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. [RSV] |
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The Gospel |
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Tuesday of the 11th Week of Matthew |
The reading is from the holy Gospel according to Matthew. |
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Mt. 23:23 – 28 |
The Lord said to the Jews who had come to him, “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faith; these you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel! Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you cleanse the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of extortion and rapacity. You blind Pharisee! first cleanse the inside of the cup and of the plate, that the outside also may be clean. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.” [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 August 19 we commemorate the holy Great-martyr Andrew the Commander and the 2,593 martyred with him. |
On this day we also commemorate the holy Martyrs Timothy, Agapios, and Thekla. |
On this day we also commemorate the holy Martyrs Eftichianos, the soldier, and Stragios, who died by fire. |
The memory of our devout father St. Theophanos the New, who on the mountain of Naoussa struggled in the ascetic life. |
By the intercessions of Your Saints, O God, have mercy and save us. Amen. |
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Fasting Rule |
Fast Free: All foods allowed. |