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2024 |
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On Monday | January 22 |
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The Readings for the Commemoration |
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The Epistle |
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For the Apostle. |
The reading is from Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy. |
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2 Tim. 1:3-8 |
Timothy, my son, I thank God whom I serve with a clear conscience, as did my fathers, when I remember you constantly in my prayers. As I remember your tears, I long night and day to see you, that I may be filled with joy. I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you. Hence I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands; for God did not give us a spirit of timidity but a spirit of power and love and self-control. Do not be ashamed then of testifying to our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel in the power of God. [RSV] |
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The Gospel |
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For the Apostle. |
The reading is from the holy Gospel according to Matthew. |
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Mt. 10:32-33; 37-38; 19:27-30 |
The Lord said to his disciples, “Every one who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven; but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny him before my Father who is in heaven. He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and he who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.” Then Peter said in reply, “Lo, we have left everything and followed you. What then shall we have?” Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, in the new world, when the Son of man shall sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And every one who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life. But many that are first will be last, and the last first.” [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 January 22 we commemorate the holy Apostle Timothy, disciple of the holy Apostle Paul. |
On this day we also commemorate the holy devout martyr Anastasios of Persia. |
On this day we also commemorate the holy martyrs Manual, George, Peter, Leo, Sionios, Gabriel, John, Leo, Parodos, and the other three hundred seventy-seven. |
By the intercessions of Your Saints, O God, have mercy on us. Amen. |
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Fasting Rule |
Fast Free: All foods allowed. |