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2025 |
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On Wednesday | November 19 |
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The Readings from the Regular Cycle |
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The Epistle |
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Wednesday of the 24th Week |
The reading is from Paul’s First Letter to the Thessalonians. |
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1 Th. 4:1 – 12 |
Brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God, just as you are doing, you do so more and more. For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from unchastity; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the heathen who do not know God; that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in any matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we solemnly forewarned you. For God has not called us for uncleanness, but in holiness. Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you. But concerning the love of the brethren you have no need to have any one write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another; and indeed you do love all the brethren throughout Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, to do so more and more, to aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we charged you; so that you may command the respect of outsiders, and be dependent on nobody. [RSV] |
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The Gospel |
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Wednesday of the 9th Week of Luke |
The reading is from the holy Gospel according to Luke. |
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Lk. 15:1 – 10 |
At that time, the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear Jesus. And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.” So he told them this parable: “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.’ Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance. Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it? And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I had lost.’ Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.” [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 November 19, we commemorate the holy Prophet Obadiah. |
On this day we also commemorate the holy Martyr Barlaam. |
On this day we also commemorate the holy Martyr Azes the wonder-worker. |
The holy women, the wife and daughter of a governor, died by the sword. |
On this day the holy 150 soldiers died by the sword. |
On this day the holy 12 soldiers died by the sword. |
On this day we commemorate the holy Martyr Agapios. |
On this day we commemorate the holy Martyr Heliodoros of Magido, Pamphylia. |
On this day we commemorate the holy Martyrs Anthimos, Thalleleos, Christopher, Euphemia, and their children; and St. Pancharios. |
On this day we commemorate our devout father Simon the Wonder-worker of Calabria. |
By their holy intercessions, O God, have mercy on us. Amen. |
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Fasting Rule |
Strict: Refrain from meat, fish, oil, dairy, and eggs. |
It is the Christmas fast. |