Thursday, September 25, 2025
Our Holy Father Sergius of Radonezh (1392); Our Righteous Mother Euphrosyne (ca. 445); Commemoration of the Great Earthquake at Constantinople (447) and the Miracle of the Trisagion
Thursday of the 16th week after Pentecost
Tone 6. No fast. What this means
The Epistle for St Sergius
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 for St Sergius
Luke 6:17–23
And 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.
20And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God. 21Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh. 22Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake. 23Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.
Commemorated today
- Paphnoutios the Martyr & his 546 Companions in Egypt
- Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos of Evangelistria
- Finbar the Confessor, First Bishop of Cork
- Our Holy Father Sergius of Radonezh (1392)
- Our Righteous Mother Euphrosyne (ca. 445)
- Commemoration of the Great Earthquake at Constantinople (447) and the Miracle of the Trisagion
- Venerable Dosithea, recluse of the Kiev Caves (1776)
Hymns and lives of the saints are on the Online Chapel of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese.