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Friday, August 13, 2060

Leavetaking of Transfiguration

Friday of the 9th week after Pentecost

Tone 7. Dormition Fast: strict. What this means

The Epistle for St Tikhon

Hebrews 7:26–8:2

For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; 27who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself. 28For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints a Son forever who has been perfected.

1Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this: we have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, 2a servant of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched, not man.

The Gospel for St Tikhon

Matthew 5:14–19

“You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden. 15Neither do you light a lamp and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house. 16Even so, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

17“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill. 18For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished. 19Therefore, whoever shall break one of these least commandments and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Commemorated today

  • St Tikhon of Zadonsk (1783)
  • Our Righteous Fathers Sergius, Stephanus, Castor and Palamonus
  • Dorotheus, Abba of Gaza
  • St Maximos the Confessor (662)
  • Holy Martyr Hippolytus of Rome and 18 Martyrs with him (258)
  • Our Holy Mother the Empress Irene (Xenia in Monasticism) (12th c.)

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

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