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Saints, Feasts, and Readings for 09/19/2023

Tuesday of the 1st Week

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Epistle Reading:

St. Paul's Letter to the Galatians 5:11-21

Gospel Reading:

Trophimus, Sabbatius, & Dorymedon the Martyrs; Plato the new Hieromartyr of Patmos; Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury; Afterfeast of the Holy Cross

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Spiritual Reading

Sunday After the Elevation of the Holy Cross

Monday, September 25, 2023

The Sermon of Sermons ... is the Sermon for the Cross, presented to us today by our Mother Church, on the Sunday after the elevation of the Honorable Cross. And we are all invited to offer to the Cross our hearts, instead of flowers and basils. The Church calls us to raise ourselves from the earth and our ordinary life, to gaze upon the brightness emanating from Christ and His Cross. The most central sign in the gospel is the sermon of the Cross of Christ: God on the Cross — incomprehensible and never understandable. Only men whose hearts pound with sincere feeling are capable of comprehending the meaning. Read more...

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"When you pray, try to let the prayer reach your heart; in other words, it is necessary that your heart should feel what you are talking about in your prayer, that it should wish for the blessing for which you are asking.... Observe, during prayer, whether your heart is in accord with that which you are saying." - St. John of Kronstadt

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Midnight Office/Nocturnes

Behold the Bridegroom comes in the middle of the night, and blessed is the servant whom He shall find watching and again unworthy is he whom He shall find heedless. Therefore, O my soul, beware, unless you be weighted down with sleep, unless you be given over to death and be shut out from the kingdom. Rouse yourself, and cry: Holy, Holy, Holy, are You, O God: through the Birthgiver of God have mercy on us.

Meditating on that terrible day, watch, O my soul keeping your lamp lit and filled with oil; for you do not know when the voice will come saying to you: "Behold the Bridegroom!" Therefore, my soul, beware, unless you fall in slumber and be left outside, knocking as the five virgins; but wakefully watch that you may dome to meet Christ with good oil, and He shall bestow on you the divine chamber of His glory.

Sayings From The Church Fathers

By His own example, the Lord showed us how great a weapon fasting is. With this weapon, He vanquished Satan in the wilderness, and with it was victorious over the three chief satanic passions with which Satan tempted Him: love of ease love of praise and love of money. These are three destructive greeds, the three greatest traps into which the evil enemy of the human race lures Christ's soldiers.

- St. Nicholas Velimirovic

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Occupy yourself with reading with a calm spirit, so that your mind may be constantly raised up to contemplation of the wondrous acts of God, lifted, as it were, by some hand outstretched to it. " Abba Evagrius

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