Friday, September 29, 2028
Ven. Cyriacos, Hermit of Palestine; St Mary of Palestine (6th c.); Holy Martyrs Dada and those with them (4th c.)
Friday of the 17th week after Pentecost
Tone 7. Fast day: strict. What this means
The Epistle for Cyriacos
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
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
- Ven. Cyriacos, Hermit of Palestine
- Martyr Petronius
- Malachi the New Righteous Martyr of Lindos
- Theophanes the Merciful of Gaza
- Dionysios I, Patriarch of Constantinople
- St Mary of Palestine (6th c.)
- Holy Martyrs Dada and those with them (4th c.)
- Venerable Cyprian of Ustiug (1276)
Hymns and lives of the saints are on the Online Chapel of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese.