Saturday, August 7, 2027
Afterfeast of the Transfiguration
Saturday of the 7th week after Pentecost
Tone 5. Dormition Fast: wine and oil allowed. What this means
The Epistle
Romans 12:1–3
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
3For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
The Gospel for Afterfeast of Transfiguration
Mark 9:2–9
And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them. 3And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them. 4And there appeared unto them Elias with Moses: and they were talking with Jesus. 5And Peter answered and said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. 6For he wist not what to say; for they were sore afraid. 7And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him. 8And suddenly, when they had looked round about, they saw no man any more, save Jesus only with themselves. 9And as they came down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of man were risen from the dead.
Commemorated today
- Martyr Dometius of Persia
- Sixtus of Athens, Bishop of Rome
- Our Holy Father Nicanorus the Wonderworker
- Theodosius the New
- Joseph Gerontogiannis of Lithines Sitia
- Sozon of Nicomedea
- The Holy Ten Thousand Ascetics of Thebes
- Narcissus the Hieromartyr of Jerusalem
- Holy Martyrs Marinus the Soldier and Asterius the Senator (260)
- Our Holy Father Or (Horus) of the Thebaid (390)
- Our Holy Father Pimen the Much-Ailing (1110)
Hymns and lives of the saints are on the Online Chapel of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese.