Epistle Reading: Ephesians 4:17-25
This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you
should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of
their mind,
having their understanding darkened, being alienated from
the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the
hardening of their heart;
who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to
licentiousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
But you have not so learned Christ,
if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him,
as the truth is in Jesus:
that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old
man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,
and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
and that you put on the new man which was created
according to God, in righteousness and true holiness.
Therefore, putting away lying, each one speak truth with
his neighbor, for we are members of one another.
Gospel Reading: Luke 4:22-30
So all bore witness to Him, and marveled at the gracious words
which proceeded out of His mouth. And they said, "Is this not Joseph's son?"
And He said to them, "You will surely say this proverb to Me, '
Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also
here in Your country.' "
Then He said, "Assuredly, I say to you, no prophet is accepted
in his own country.
"But I tell you truly, many widows were in Israel in the days
of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and
there was a great famine throughout all the land;
"but to none of them was Elijah sent except to Zarephath, in
the region of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
"And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Elisha the
prophet, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian."
Then all those in the synagogue, when they heard these things,
were filled with wrath,
and rose up and thrust Him out of the city; and they led Him to
the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw
Him down over the cliff.
Then passing through the midst of them, He went His way.
Saints and Feasts
The Commemoration of the Miracle of the Theotokos Myrtidiotissis in Kythyra; Thecla the Protomartyr & Equal to the Apostles; Silouan of Athos; Stephen the Martyr; The Most Holy Theotokos of Palianis; Coprios the Righteous; Juvenaly & Peter the Aleut, New Martyrs of Alaska
