Saturday, August 21, 2038
Apostle Thaddeus of the Seventy; Avram, Archimandrite of Smolensk; Holy Martyrs Bassa and her sons Theognis, Agapios, and Pistis (4th c.)
Saturday of the 10th week after Pentecost
Tone 8. No fast. What this means
The Epistle
Romans 15:30–33
Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me; 31That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judaea; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints; 32That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed. 33Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
The Gospel for Thaddaeus
Mark 3:13–21
And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: and they came unto him. 14And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach, 15And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils: 16And Simon he surnamed Peter; 17And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder: 18And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite, 19And Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed him: and they went into an house. 20And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. 21And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.
Commemorated today
- Apostle Thaddeus of the Seventy
- Avram, Archimandrite of Smolensk
- Athanasios Patelaros, Patriarch of Constantinople
- Holy Martyrs Bassa and her sons Theognis, Agapios, and Pistis (4th c.)
- Holy Forefathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
Hymns and lives of the saints are on the Online Chapel of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese.