Thursday, September 29, 2061
Ven. Cyriacos, Hermit of Palestine; St Mary of Palestine (6th c.); Holy Martyrs Dada and those with them (4th c.)
Thursday of the 2nd week of Luke
Tone 8. No fast. What this means
The Epistle for Cyriacos
Galatians 5:22–6:2
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, 23gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
25If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit. 26Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.
1Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted. 2Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
The Gospel
Luke 6:12–19
In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God. 13When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles: 14Simon, whom he also named Peter; Andrew, his brother; James; John; Philip; Bartholomew; 15Matthew; Thomas; James the son of Alphaeus; Simon who was called the Zealot; 16Judas the son of James; and Judas Iscariot, who also became a traitor.
17He came down with them and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases, 18as well as those who were troubled by unclean spirits; and they were being healed. 19All the multitude sought to touch him, for power came out of him and healed them all.
Commemorated today
- Ven. Cyriacos, Hermit of Palestine
- Martyr Petronius
- Malachi the New Righteous Martyr of Lindos
- Theophanes the Merciful of Gaza
- Dionysios I, Patriarch of Constantinople
- St Mary of Palestine (6th c.)
- Holy Martyrs Dada and those with them (4th c.)
- Venerable Cyprian of Ustiug (1276)
Hymns and lives of the saints are on the Online Chapel of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese.