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Tuesday, December 14, 2066

Martyrs Thyrsus, Leucis, Callinicus; Holy Martyrs Philemon, Apollonius, Arian and those with them (3rd c.)

Tuesday of the 13th week of Luke

Tone 2. Nativity Fast: strict. What this means

The Epistle

2 Timothy 3:16–4:4

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, 17that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

1I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom: 2preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching. 3For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts, 4and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.

The Gospel

Mark 8:22–26

He came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to him and begged him to touch him. 23He took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the village. When he had spat on his eyes, and laid his hands on him, he asked him if he saw anything.

24He looked up, and said, “I see men, but I see them like walking trees.”

25Then again he laid his hands on his eyes. He looked intently, and was restored, and saw everyone clearly. 26He sent him away to his house, saying, “Don’t enter into the village, nor tell anyone in the village.”

Commemorated today

  • Martyrs Thyrsus, Leucis, Callinicus
  • Holy Martyrs Philemon, Apollonius, Arian and those with them (3rd c.)

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

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