Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Ven. Parasceva of Serbia; Holy Martyrs Nazarius, Gervasius, Protasius, and Celsus of Milan (1st c.); Saint Cosmas the Hymnographer (8th c.)
Tuesday of the 19th week after Pentecost
Tone 1. No fast. What this means
The Epistle
Philippians 1:8–14
For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ. 9And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; 10That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; 11Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
12But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel; 13So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places; 14And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
The Gospel
Luke 8:1–3
And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with him, 2And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils, 3And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance.
Commemorated today
- Ven. Parasceva of Serbia
- Praised Ignatius, Archbishop of Methymna
- Holy Martyrs Nazarius, Gervasius, Protasius, and Celsus of Milan (1st c.)
- Saint Cosmas the Hymnographer (8th c.)
- Saint Nicholas the Pious (Sviatosha), Prince of Chernigov (1143)
Hymns and lives of the saints are on the Online Chapel of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese.