Monday, November 17, 2064
St Gregory the Wonderworker; Ven. Nikon of Radonezh; Our Holy Father Longinus (4th or 5th c.)
Monday of the 9th week of Luke
Tone 7. Nativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowed. What this means
The Epistle for Gregory the Wonderworker
1 Corinthians 12:7–11
But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the profit of all. 8For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit, 9to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, 10and to another workings of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of languages, and to another the interpretation of languages. 11But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.
The Gospel
Luke 14:1, 12–15
When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.
12He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back. 13But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind; 14and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”
15When one of those who sat at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, “Blessed is he who will feast in God’s Kingdom!”
Commemorated today
- St Gregory the Wonderworker
- Ven. Nikon of Radonezh
- Gennadios I and Maximus, Patriarchs of Constantinople
- Our Holy Father Longinus (4th or 5th c.)
- Our Holy Mother Hilda, Abbess of Whitby (680)
Hymns and lives of the saints are on the Online Chapel of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese.