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On Monday | November 24 |
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The Readings from the Regular Cycle |
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The Epistle |
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Monday of the 25th Week |
The reading is from Paul’s Second Letter to the Thessalonians. |
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2 Th. 1:1 – 10 |
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as is fitting, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. Therefore we ourselves boast of you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you are enduring. This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be made worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering — since indeed God deems it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you, and to grant rest with us to you who are afflicted, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance upon those who do not know God and upon those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They shall suffer the punishment of eternal destruction and exclusion from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at in all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed. [RSV] |
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The Gospel |
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Monday of the 10th Week of Luke |
The reading is from the holy Gospel according to Luke. |
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Lk. 17:20 – 25 |
At that time, when Jesus was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming, he answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed; nor will they say, ‘Lo, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.” And he said to the disciples, “The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and you will not see it. And they will say to you, ‘Lo, there!’ or ‘Lo, here!’ Do not go, do not follow them. For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of man be in his day. But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.” [RSV] |
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The Readings for the Commemoration |
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The Epistle |
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For the Hierarchs. |
The reading is from Paul’s Letter to the Philippians. |
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Phil. 3:20 – 21; 4:1 – 3 |
Brethren, our commonwealth is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will change our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power which enables him even to subject all things to himself. Therefore, my brethren, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved. I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord. And I ask you also, loyal Syzygus, help these women, for they have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life. [RSV] |
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The Gospel |
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For the Hierarchs. |
The reading is from the holy Gospel according to John. |
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Jn. 15:17 – 16:2 |
The Lord said to his disciples, “This I command you, to love one another. If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also. But all this they will do to you on my account, because they do not know him who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates me hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. It is to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’ But when the Comforter comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness to me; and you also are witnesses, because you have been with me from the beginning. I have said all this to you to keep you from falling away. They will put you out of the synagogues; indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to 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 November 24, we commemorate our father among the saints Clement, Bishop of Rome. |
On this day we also commemorate the holy Hieromartyr Peter, Bishop of Alexandria. |
On this day Saint Malchus died in peace. |
On this day devout Saint Carion died in peace. |
On this day Saint Hermogenes, Bishop of Agrigentum, died in peace. |
On this day Saints Philumenos and Christopher died by the sword. |
On this day Saint Eugene died when he was put in a hole in the wall which was then sealed with plaster. |
On this day Saints Procopius and Christopher died by the sword. |
On this day we also commemorate the holy Martyr Alexander of Corinth; and also our devout father Gregory who lived as an ascetic in Golden Rock, who was originally from the East and then came and lived in Golden Rock. |
On this day we also commemorate the holy Martyr Theodore of Antioch. |
We also commemorate the holy Martyr Chrysogonos and devout Saint Mark of Triglia. |
By their holy intercessions, O God, have mercy on us. Amen. |
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Fasting Rule |
Fish: fish, oil and wine are allowed. Refrain from meat, dairy and eggs. |
It is the Christmas fast. |