Orthocalendar

Wednesday, January 24, 1973

Ven. Xenia of Rome; Bl. Xenia of St Petersburg; Our Holy Father Macedonian (ca. 430)

Wednesday of the 35th week after Pentecost

Tone 1. Fast day: strict. What this means

The Epistle for Xenia of Rome

Galatians 5:22–6:2

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, 23gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

25If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit. 26Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

1Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted. 2Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

The Gospel

Mark 8:30–34

He commanded them that they should tell no one about him. 31He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. 32He spoke to them openly. Peter took him and began to rebuke him. 33But he, turning around and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men.”

34He called the multitude to himself with his disciples and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Commemorated today

  • Ven. Xenia of Rome
  • Bl. Xenia of St Petersburg
  • Vavylas the Holy Martyr
  • Philo the Wonderworker, Bishop of Karpasia in Cyprus
  • Our Holy Father Macedonian (ca. 430)

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

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