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2023 |
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On Monday | August 28 |
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The Readings from the Regular Cycle |
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The Epistle |
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Monday of the 13th Week |
The reading is from Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians. |
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2 Cor. 8:7-15 |
Brethren, as you excel in everything in faith, in utterance, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in your love for us see that you excel in this gracious work also. I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich. And in this matter I give my advice: it is best for you now to complete what a year ago you began not only to do but to desire, so that your readiness in desiring it may be matched by your completing it out of what you have. For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a man has, not according to what he has not. I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened, but that as a matter of equality your abundance at the present time should supply their want, so that their abundance may supply your want, that there may be equality. As it is written, "He who gathered much has nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack." [RSV] |
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The Gospel |
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Monday of the 13th Week of Matthew |
The reading is from the holy Gospel according to Mark. |
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Mk. 3:6-12 |
At that time, the Pharisees held counsel with the Herodians against Jesus, how to destroy him. Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed; also from Judea and Jerusalem and Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from about Tyre and Sidon a great multitude, hearing all that he did, came to him. And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they should crush him; for he had healed many, so that all who had diseases pressed upon him to touch him. And whenever the unclean spirits beheld him, they fell down before him and cried out, "You are the Son of God." And he strictly ordered them not to make him known. [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 August 28, we commemorate our devout father Moses the Ethiopian. |
Today, we also commemorate the holy Martyr Akakius the New. |
Today, we commemorate the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, and the holy Martyrs Diomides and Laurence, and the other Forty. The Synaxis in their honor took place in the new Palace. |
On this day, righteous Hezekiah the King died in peace. |
Today, we commemorate St. Anna, the daughter of Phanuel. |
The holy thirty-three Martyrs of Heracleia died by fire. |
By the intercessions of Your saints, O God, have mercy on us. Amen. |
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Fasting Rule |
Fast Free: All foods allowed. |