Orthocalendar

Wednesday, January 24, 2035

Ven. Xenia of Rome; Bl. Xenia of St Petersburg; Our Holy Father Macedonian (ca. 430)

Wednesday of the 35th week after Pentecost

Tone 1. Fast day: strict. What this means

The Epistle for Xenia of Rome

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

Mark 8:30–34

And he charged them that they should tell no man of him. 31And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. 32And he spake that saying openly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him. 33But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.

34And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Commemorated today

  • Ven. Xenia of Rome
  • Bl. Xenia of St Petersburg
  • Vavylas the Holy Martyr
  • Philo the Wonderworker, Bishop of Karpasia in Cyprus
  • Our Holy Father Macedonian (ca. 430)

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

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