Orthocalendar

Monday, September 4, 1972

Hieromartyr Babylas, Bishop of Antioch; Holy Prophet Moses, who beheld God.; St John Mavropos, Metropolitan of Euchaita (1100)

Monday of the 15th week after Pentecost

Tone 5. No fast. What this means

The Epistle

Galatians 2:11–16

But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned. 12For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision. 13And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy. 14But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

15“We, being Jews by nature and not Gentile sinners, 16yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

The Gospel

Mark 5:24–34

He went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and they pressed upon him on all sides. 25A certain woman who had a discharge of blood for twelve years, 26and had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse, 27having heard the things concerning Jesus, came up behind him in the crowd and touched his clothes. 28For she said, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be made well.” 29Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.

30Immediately Jesus, perceiving in himself that the power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?”

31His disciples said to him, “You see the multitude pressing against you, and you say, ‘Who touched me?’”

32He looked around to see her who had done this thing. 33But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had been done to her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.

34He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be cured of your disease.”

Commemorated today

  • Hieromartyr Babylas, Bishop of Antioch
  • Our Righteous Father Anthimus of Coroucle in Cephallenia
  • Holy Prophet Moses, who beheld God.
  • St John Mavropos, Metropolitan of Euchaita (1100)
  • St Hermione, daughter of Apostle Philip (1st c.)
  • Venerable Anthimos the Blind, New Ascetic (1782)
  • Holy New Martyr Gorazd, Bishop of Slovakia and the Czech Lands (1942) (August 22 OC)

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

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