Orthodox Readings

Thursday, September 29, 2022

Ven. Cyriacos, Hermit of Palestine; St Mary of Palestine (6th c.); Holy Martyrs Dada and those with them (4th c.)

Thursday of the 16th week after Pentecost

Tone 6. No fast. What this means

The Epistle for Cyriacos

Galatians 5:22–6:2

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 24And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 25If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

1Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. 2Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

The Gospel

Luke 6:12–19

And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.

13And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles; 14Simon, (whom he also named Peter,) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, 15Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphæus, and Simon called Zelotes, 16And Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, which also was the traitor.

17And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judæa and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases; 18And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed. 19And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.

Commemorated today

  • Ven. Cyriacos, Hermit of Palestine
  • Martyr Petronius
  • Malachi the New Righteous Martyr of Lindos
  • Theophanes the Merciful of Gaza
  • Dionysios I, Patriarch of Constantinople
  • St Mary of Palestine (6th c.)
  • Holy Martyrs Dada and those with them (4th c.)
  • Venerable Cyprian of Ustiug (1276)

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

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