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2024 |
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On Wednesday | January 31 |
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The Readings for the Commemoration |
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The Epistle |
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For the Saints. |
The reading is from Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians. |
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1 Cor. 12:27-31; 13:1-8 |
Brethren, you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, then healers, helpers, administrators, speakers in various kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. [RSV] |
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The Gospel |
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For the Saints. |
The reading is from the holy Gospel according to Matthew. |
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Mt. 10:1, 5-8 |
At that time, Jesus called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every infirmity. These twelve Jesus sent out, charging them, “Go nowhere among the Gentiles, and enter no town of the Samaritans, but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And preach as you go, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying, give without pay.” [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 31 we commemorate the holy Wonder-workers and Unmercenaries Cyrus and John. We also commemorate the holy martyr Athanasia and her three daughters and virgins Theodota, Theoktisti, and Evdoxia. |
On this day we also commemorate the holy martyrs of Corinth: Victorine, Victor, Nikiphoros, Cladius, Diodoros, Sarapinus, and Papias. |
On this day we also commemorate the holy martyr Triphaina. |
The holy new devout martyr Elias Ardounis, who witnessed in Kalamata, Peloponnisos in the year 1686, died by fire. |
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 a Wednesday or Friday. |