Orthodox Readings

Monday, February 1, 2027

Martyr Tryphon; Holy Martyrs Perpetua and Felicity, and those with them at Carthage (203); Our Holy Mother Brigid of Kildare (524)

Monday of the 36th week after Pentecost

Tone 2. No fast. What this means

The Epistle for St. Trypho

Romans 8:28–39

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 29For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. 31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 32He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? 33Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. 34Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The Gospel for St. Trypho

Luke 10:19–21

Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 20Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.

21In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.

Commemorated today

  • Martyr Tryphon
  • Our Holy Father Basil, Archbishop of Thessalonica
  • Anastasios the New Martyr of Navplion
  • The Four Martyrs Andrianus, Polyeuktos, Plato and George who contested in Megara
  • Timothy the Confessor
  • Holy Martyrs Perpetua and Felicity, and those with them at Carthage (203)
  • Our Holy Mother Brigid of Kildare (524)

Hymns and lives of the saints are on the Online Chapel of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese.

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