Monday, August 11, 2025
Afterfeast of the Transfiguration
Monday of the 10th week after Pentecost
Tone 8. Dormition Fast: strict. What this means
The Epistle
1 Corinthians 15:12–19
Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: 14And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. 15Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. 16For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: 17And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. 18Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. 19If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
The Gospel
Matthew 21:18–22
Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered. 19And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away. 20And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away! 21Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done. 22And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Commemorated today
- Holy Martyr and Archdeacon Euplus of Catania
- Commemoration of St. Spyridon's Miracle in Corfu against the Turkish invasion of 1716
- Blane, Bishop of Bute
- The Holy Martyr Susanna the Virgin, and those with her (295-296)
- Saint Niphon, Patriarch of Constantinople (1508)
- Repose of Fr Georges Florovsky (1979) (July 29 OC)
Hymns and lives of the saints are on the Online Chapel of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese.