Thursday, June 9, 2061
St Cyril of Alexandria; Ven. Kirill of Belozersk; St Columba of Iona (597)
Thursday of the 2nd week after Pentecost
Tone 8. Apostles Fast: fish, wine and oil allowed. What this means
The Epistle
Romans 5:10–16
For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
11Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation. 12Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin, so death passed to all men because all sinned. 13For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law. 14Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.
15But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many. 16The gift is not as through one who sinned; for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift followed many trespasses to justification.
The Gospel
Matthew 8:23–27
When he got into a boat, his disciples followed him. 24Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves; but he was asleep. 25The disciples came to him and woke him up, saying, “Save us, Lord! We are dying!”
26He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.
27The men marveled, saying, “What kind of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”
Commemorated today
- St Cyril of Alexandria
- Ven. Kirill of Belozersk
- 3 Virgin-martyrs of Chios
- 5 Nuns beheaded in Persia: Thecla, Mariamne, Martha, Mary, & Enmatha
- St Columba of Iona (597)
Hymns and lives of the saints are on the Online Chapel of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese.