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2026 |
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On Friday | June 12 |
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2026 |
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June 12 |
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Memory of our Devout Father Onoufrios |
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The Readings from Vespers the Previous Evening |
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The Readings from the Regular Cycle |
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The Epistle |
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Friday of the 2nd Week |
The reading is from Paul’s Letter to the Romans. |
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Rom. 5:17 – 21; 6:1 – 2 |
Brethren, if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ. Then as one man’s trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one man’s act of righteousness leads to acquittal and life for all men. For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by one man’s obedience many will be made righteous. Law came in, to increase the trespass; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? [RSV] |
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The Gospel |
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Friday of the 2nd Week of Matthew |
The reading is from the holy Gospel according to Matthew. |
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Mt. 9:14 – 17 |
At that time, the disciples of John came to Jesus, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?” And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come, when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. And no one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is made. Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; if it is, the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are destroyed; but new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.” [RSV] |
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The Readings for the Commemoration |
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Memory of our Devout Father Onoufrios |
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The Epistle |
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For the Devout Saints. |
The reading is from Paul’s Letter to the Romans. |
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Rom. 8:14 – 21 |
Brethren, all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the spirit of sonship. When we cry, “Abba! Father!” it is the Spirit himself bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him. I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God; for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of 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 June 12 we commemorate our devout Father Onouphrios of Egypt. |
On this day we also commemorate our righteous Father Peter of Athos. |
On this day we also commemorate the Holy Martyr Antonina. |
On this day we commemorate Holy John the soldier; and our devout Fathers Zeno and Triphyllios the Bishop; and our devout Father Julian in Dagatos (or Dagazos). |
By their holy intercessions, Christ God, have mercy on us. Amen. |
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Fasting Rule |
Strict: Refrain from meat, fish, oil, dairy, and eggs. |
It is a Wednesday or Friday. |