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Saturday, August 7, 1915

Afterfeast of the Transfiguration

Saturday of the 11th week after Pentecost

Tone 1. Dormition Fast: wine and oil allowed. What this means

The Epistle

1 Corinthians 1:3–9

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

4I always thank my God concerning you for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus, 5that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge— 6even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you— 7so that you come behind in no gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, 8who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

The Gospel for Afterfeast of Transfiguration

Mark 9:2–9

After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he was changed into another form in front of them. 3His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them. 4Elijah and Moses appeared to them, and they were talking with Jesus.

5Peter answered Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let’s make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” 6For he didn’t know what to say, for they were very afraid.

7A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.”

8Suddenly looking around, they saw no one with them any more, except Jesus only.

9As they were coming down from the mountain, he commanded them that they should tell no one what things they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

Commemorated today

  • Martyr Dometius of Persia
  • Sixtus of Athens, Bishop of Rome
  • Our Holy Father Nicanorus the Wonderworker
  • Theodosius the New
  • Joseph Gerontogiannis of Lithines Sitia
  • Sozon of Nicomedea
  • The Holy Ten Thousand Ascetics of Thebes
  • Narcissus the Hieromartyr of Jerusalem
  • Holy Martyrs Marinus the Soldier and Asterius the Senator (260)
  • Our Holy Father Or (Horus) of the Thebaid (390)
  • Our Holy Father Pimen the Much-Ailing (1110)

Hymns and lives of the saints are on the Online Chapel of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese.

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