Saturday, September 10, 2061
Saturday before Elevation
Saturday of the 15th week after Pentecost
Tone 5. No fast. What this means
The Epistle for Saturday before Elevation
1 Corinthians 2:6–9
We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing. 7But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory, 8which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory. 9But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”
The Gospel for Menodora, Metrodora, Nymphodora
John 3:16–21
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 17For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him. 18He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only born Son of God. 19This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil. 20For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed. 21But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”
Commemorated today
- Martyrs Menodora, Metrodora, Nymphodora
- Poulcheria the Empress
Hymns and lives of the saints are on the Online Chapel of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese.