Today's Scripture Readings
Saints, Feasts, and Readings for 12/08/2025
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Prayer Before Reading Holy Scripture
O Master Who loves mankind, illuminate our hearts with the pure light of Your divine knowledge and open the eyes of our mind to understand the teachings of Your Gospel. Instill in us also the fear of Your blessed commandments, that we may overcome all carnal desires, entering upon a spiritual life and understanding and acting in all things according to Your holy will. For You are the enlightenment of our souls and bodies, O Christ God, and to You we give glory together with Your eternal Father and Your all-holy, gracious and life-giving Spirit, now and ever and forever. Amen.
Epistle Reading: 1 Timothy 5:1-10
Do not rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father, the
younger men as brothers,
the older women as mothers, the younger as sisters, with all purity.
Honor widows who are really widows.
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety at home and to repay their parents; for this is good and acceptable before God.
Now she who is really a widow, and left alone, trusts in God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.
But she who lives in pleasure is dead while she lives.
And these things command, that they may be blameless.
But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Do not let a widow under sixty years old be taken into the number, and not unless she has been the wife of one man,
well reported for good works: if she has brought up children, if she has lodged strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.
the older women as mothers, the younger as sisters, with all purity.
Honor widows who are really widows.
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety at home and to repay their parents; for this is good and acceptable before God.
Now she who is really a widow, and left alone, trusts in God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.
But she who lives in pleasure is dead while she lives.
And these things command, that they may be blameless.
But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Do not let a widow under sixty years old be taken into the number, and not unless she has been the wife of one man,
well reported for good works: if she has brought up children, if she has lodged strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.
Gospel Reading: Luke 19:37-44
Then, as He was now drawing near the descent of the Mount of
Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise
God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen,
saying: " 'Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the LORD!' Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!"
And some of the Pharisees called to Him from the crowd, " Teacher, rebuke Your disciples."
But He answered and said to them, "I tell you that if these should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out."
Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it,
saying, "If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
"For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side,
"and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation."
saying: " 'Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the LORD!' Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!"
And some of the Pharisees called to Him from the crowd, " Teacher, rebuke Your disciples."
But He answered and said to them, "I tell you that if these should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out."
Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it,
saying, "If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
"For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side,
"and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation."
The Old Calendar readings are from the New King James Version of the Bible.
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