Orthocalendar

Friday, August 7, 2037

Afterfeast of the Transfiguration

Friday of the 11th week after Pentecost

Tone 1. Dormition Fast: strict. What this means

The Epistle

2 Corinthians 4:13–18

We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak; 14Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you. 15For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. 16For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 17For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 18While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

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.

One email a day with the Epistle, the Gospel, the saints and the fast. Unsubscribe any time.