Sunday, November 17, 2024
9th Sunday of Luke
Tone 4. Nativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowed. What this means
The Epistle for Gregory the Wonderworker
1 Corinthians 12:7–11
But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. 8For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; 9To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; 10To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: 11But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
The Gospel
Luke 12:16–21
And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: 17And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? 18And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. 19And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. 20But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? 21So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
Commemorated today
- St Gregory the Wonderworker
- Ven. Nikon of Radonezh
- Gennadios I and Maximus, Patriarchs of Constantinople
- Our Holy Father Longinus (4th or 5th c.)
- Our Holy Mother Hilda, Abbess of Whitby (680)
Hymns and lives of the saints are on the Online Chapel of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese.