2023

On Friday | August 11

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The Readings from the Regular Cycle

The Epistle

Friday of the 10th Week

The reading is from Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians.

2 Cor. 1:12-20

Brethren, our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience that we have behaved in the world, and still more toward you, with holiness and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God. For we write you nothing but what you can read and understand; I hope you will understand fully, as you have understood in part, that you can be proud of us as we can be of you, on the day of the Lord Jesus. Because I was sure of this, I wanted to come to you first, so that you might have a double favor; I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and to come back to you from Macedonia and have you send me on my way to Judea. Was I vacillating when I wanted to do this? Do I make my plans like a worldly man, ready to say Yes and No. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we preached among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No; but in him it is always Yes. For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why we utter the Amen through him, to the glory of God. [RSV]

The Gospel

Friday of the 10th Week of Matthew

The reading is from the holy Gospel according to Matthew.

Mt. 22:23-33

At that time, Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, came to Jesus; and they asked him a question, saying, "Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies, having no children, his brother must marry the widow, and raise up children for his brother.' Now there were seven brothers among us; the first married, and died, and having no children left his wife to his brother. So too the second and third, down to the seventh. After them all, the woman died. In the resurrection, therefore, to which of the seven will she be wife? For they all had her." But Jesus answered them, "You are wrong, because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven. And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God, 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?' He is not God of the dead, but of the living." And when the crowd heard it, they were astonished at his teaching. [RSV]

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The Readings for the Commemoration

The Epistle

For the Martyr.

The reading is from Paul's Letter to the Romans.

Rom. 8:28-39

Brethren, we know that in everything God works for good with those who love him, who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the first-born among many brethren. And those whom he predestined he also called; and those whom he called he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified. What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, will he not also give us all things with him? Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies; who is to condemn? Is it Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us? Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, "For thy sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered." No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. [RSV]

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Stand for the reading of the Synaxarion.

Synaxarion

From the Menaion.

On August 11, we commemorate the holy Great Martyr Euplus the Deacon.

On this day we commemorate the consecration of the venerable and beautiful house and church of our most holy Lady Theotokos the Merciful.

On this day we relate the story about the Icon of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, which was not made by human hands.

On this day we commemorate the contest of the holy Martyrs Neophytos, Gaius, Gaianus, Zeno, Mark, and Macarios. Services in their honor were held in the chapel of the holy glorious and wonderworking Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian, in the Quarter of Darius.

Devout St. Passarion died in peace.

Devout St. Niphon, who lived in asceticism in the cenobitic Monastery of St. Dionysius on Mt. Athos, and who became Patriarch of Constantinople, died in peace.

On this day is the commemoration of the supernatural miracle that our father among the saints Spyridon did against the Hagarenes on the Island of Corfu.

By the intercessions of Your Saints, 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 Dormition fast.