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On Sunday | September 21 |
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The Epistle |
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Sunday After the Elevation of the Cross |
The reading is from Paul’s Letter to the Galatians. |
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Gal. 2:16 – 20 |
Brethren, you know that a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the law, because by works of the law shall no one be justified. But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we ourselves were found to be sinners, is Christ then an agent of sin? Certainly not! But if I build up again those things which I tore down, then I prove myself a transgressor. For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. [RSV] |
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The Gospel |
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Sunday After the Elevation of the Cross |
The reading is from the holy Gospel according to Mark. |
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Mk. 8:34 – 38; 9:1 |
The Lord said: “If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it. For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? For what can a man give in return for his life? For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of man also be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.” And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God come with power.” [RSV] |
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The Readings from the Regular Cycle |
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The Epistle |
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Fifteenth Sunday |
The reading is from Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians. |
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2 Cor. 4:6 – 15 |
Brethren, it is the God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the transcendent power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For while we live we are always being given up to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So death is at work in us, but life in you. Since we have the same spirit of faith as he had who wrote, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we too believed, and so we speak, knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence. For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God. [RSV] |
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The Gospel |
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Fifteenth Sunday of Matthew |
The reading is from the holy Gospel according to Matthew. |
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Mt. 22:35 – 46 |
At that time, a lawyer came to Jesus and asked him a question, to test him. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets.” Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, saying, “What do you think of Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “The son of David.” He said to them, “How is it then that David in the Spirit calls him Lord, saying, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, till I put your enemies under your feet’? If David thus calls him Lord, how is he his son?” And no one was able to answer him a word, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions. [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 September 21 we commemorate the holy Apostle Quadratus. |
On this day we also commemorate the holy Prophet Jonah. |
On this day we also commemorate our devout father St. Jonah of St. Savvas Monastery. |
On this day we also commemorate the holy Martyr Efsevios. |
On this day we also commemorate the holy Martyrs and siblings Efsevios, Nestabus, and Zeno. |
On this day we also commemorate our holy fathers Meltios and Isakios, Bishops of Cyprus. |
On this day we also commemorate the holy Martyr Priskos. |
On this day we also commemorate the holy six Martyrs, lieutenants of Maximian. |
By the intercessions of Your Saints, O God, have mercy on us. Amen. |
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Fasting Rule |
Fast Free: All foods allowed. |