Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Martyrs Menas, Hermogenes, Eugraphus; Thomas the Righteous of Bithynia
Tuesday of the 25th week after Pentecost
Tone 7. Nativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowed. What this means
The Epistle
2 Thessalonians 1:10–2:2
When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day. 11Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power: 12That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
The Gospel
Mark 8:22–26
And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him. 23And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought. 24And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking. 25After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly. 26And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any in the town.
Commemorated today
- Martyrs Menas, Hermogenes, Eugraphus
- Thomas the Righteous of Bithynia
Hymns and lives of the saints are on the Online Chapel of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese.