BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Teamup Solutions AG//Teamup Calendar//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH DESCRIPTION:Website Calendar-0 X-WR-CALDESC:Website Calendar-0 X-WR-CALNAME:Saint George Cathedral X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M SUMMARY:Saint George Cathedral BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York LAST-MODIFIED:20251211T094730Z TZURL:https://www.tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132874 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 Leavetaking of the Theophany of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Chr ist DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 01/14/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Leavetaking of the Theophany of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ\; T he Holy Fathers slain at Sinai and Raitho\; Plato the Hieromartyr\, Bishop of Tallini and all Estonia\, and the Priest Martyrs Michael and Nicholas\ ; Agnes the Virgin-martyr\; Sabbas (Sava)\, Archbishop of Serbia\; Nina of Georgia\n\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of th e Apostles 2:38-43 \nIn those days\, Peter said to the people\, "Repent a nd be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiv eness of your sins\; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Fo r the promise is to you and to your children and to all that are far off\, every one whom the Lord our God calls to him." And he testified with many other words and exhorted them\, saying\, "Save yourselves from this crook ed generation." So those who received his word were baptized\, and there w ere added that day about three thousand souls. And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship\, to the breaking of bread and t he prayers. And fear came upon every soul\; and many wonders and signs wer e done through the apostles.\n\nGospel Reading: Luke 4:1-15 \nAt that tim e Jesus returned from the Jordan\, and was led by the Spirit for forty day s in the wilderness\, tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing in those da ys\; and when they were ended\, he was hungry. The devil said to him\, "If you are the Son of God\, command this stone to become bread." And Jesus a nswered him\, "It is written\, 'Man shall not live by bread alone.'" And t he devil took him up\, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a m oment of time\, and said to him\, "To you I will give all this authority a nd their glory\; for it has been delivered to me\, and I will give it to w hom I will. If you\, then\, will worship me\, it shall all be yours." And Jesus answered him\, "It is written\, 'You shall worship the Lord your God \, and him only shall you serve.'"\n\nAnd he took him to Jerusalem\, and s et him on the pinnacle of the temple\, and said to him\, "If you are the S on of God\, throw yourself down from here\; for it is written\, 'He will g ive his angels charge of you\, to guard you\,' and 'On their hands they wi ll bear you up\, lest you strike your foot against a stone.'" And Jesus an swered him\, "It is said\, 'You shall not tempt the Lord your God.'" And w hen the devil had ended every temptation\, he departed from him until an o pportune time. And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee\ , and a report concerning him went out through all the surrounding country . And he taught in their synagogues\, being glorified by all.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260114 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260115 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132874 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132875 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Paul of Thebes DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 01/15/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Paul of Thebes\; John the Hut-Dweller\; Pansophios the Martyr of Alex andria\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Galatians 5:22-26\; 6: 1-2 \nBrethren\, the fruit of the Spirit is love\, joy\, peace\, patience \, kindness\, goodness\, faithfulness\, gentleness\, self-control\; agains t such there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucifie d the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit\, let us also walk by the Spirit. Let us have no self-conceit\, no provoking of one another\, no envy of one another. Brethren\, if a man is overtaken in any trespass\, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gen tleness. Look to yourself\, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another's bu rdens\, and so fulfill the law of Christ.\n\nGospel Reading: Luke 12:32-40 \nThe Lord said\, "Fear not\, little flock\, for it is your Father's goo d pleasure to give you the Kingdom. Sell your possessions\, and give alms\ ; provide yourselves with purses that do not grow old\, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail\, where no thief approaches and no moth de stroys. For where your treasure is\, there will your heart be also. Let yo ur loins be girded and your lamps burning\, and be like men who are waitin g for their master to come home from the marriage feast\, so that they may open to him at once when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes\; truly\, I say to you\, he will gird himself and have them sit at table\, and he will come and serve them . If he comes in the second watch\, or in the third\, and finds them so\, blessed are those servants! But know this\, that if the householder had kn own at what hour the thief was coming\, he would not have left his house t o be broken into. You also must be ready\; for the Son of man is coming at an unexpected hour."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260115 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260116 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132875 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132876 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 Veneration of Apostle Peter's Precious Chains DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 01/16/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Veneration of Apostle Peter's Precious Chains\; Righteous Hierodeacon Makarios of Kalogeras\; Romilo the Monk of Mount Athos\; Nicholas the New -Martyr of Mytilene\; Peusippos\, Elasippos\, and Mesippos the siblings\, and their grandmother Neonilla\n\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\n\nEpist le Reading: Acts of the Apostles 12:1-11 \nAbout that time\, Herod the ki ng laid violent hands upon some who belonged to the church. He killed Jame s the brother of John with the sword\; and when he saw that it pleased the Jews\, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. This was during the days of Unl eavened Bread. And when he had seized him\, he put him in prison\, and del ivered him to four squads of soldiers to guard him\, intending after the P assover to bring him out to the people. So Peter was kept in prison\; but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the Church.\n\nThe very night wh en Herod was about to bring him out\, Peter was sleeping between two soldi ers\, bound with two chains\, and sentries before the door were guarding t he prison\; and behold\, an angel of the Lord appeared\, and a light shone in the cell\; and he struck Peter on the side and woke him\, saying\, "Ge t up quickly." And the chains fell off his hands. And the angel said to hi m\, "Wrap your mantle around you and follow me." And he went out and follo wed him\; he did not know that what was done by the angel was real\, but t hought he was seeing a vision. When they had passed the first and the seco nd guard\, they came to the iron gate leading into the city. It opened to them of its own accord\, and they went out and passed on through one stree t\; and immediately the angel left him. And Peter came to himself\, and sa id\, "Now I am sure that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from t he hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting."\n\nG ospel Reading: John 21:14-25 \nAt that time\, Jesus revealed himself to t he disciples after he was raised from the dead. And he said to Simon Peter \, "Simon\, son of John\, do you love me more than these?" He said to him\ , "Yes\, Lord\; you know that I love you." He said to him\, "Feed my lambs ." A second time he said to him\, "Simon\, son of John\, do you love me?" He said to him\, "Yes\, Lord\; you know that I love you." He said to him\, "Tend my sheep." He said to him the third time\, "Simon\, son of John\, d o you love me?" Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time\, "Do you love me?" And he said to him\, "Lord\, you know everything\; you k now that I love you." Jesus said to him\, "Feed my sheep. Truly\, truly\, I say to you\, when you were young\, you girded yourself and walked where you would\; but when you are old\, you will stretch out your hands\, and a nother will gird you and carry you where you do not wish to go." (This he said to show by what death he was to glorify God.) And after this he said to him\, "Follow me." Peter turned and saw following them the disciple who m Jesus loved\, who had lain close to his breast at the supper and had sai d\, "Lord\, who is it that is going to betray you?" When Peter saw him\, h e said to Jesus\, "Lord\, what about this man?" Jesus said to him\, "If it is my will that he remain until I come\, what is that to you? Follow me!" The saying spread abroad among the brethren that this disciple was not to die\; yet Jesus did not say to him that he was not to die\, but\, "If it is my will that he remain until I come\, what is that to you?" This is the disciple who is bearing witness to these things\, and who has written the se things\; and we know that his testimony is true. But there are also man y other things which Jesus did\; were every one of them to be written\, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be wr itten. Amen.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260116 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260117 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132876 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132877 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Anthony the Great DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 01/17/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Anthony the Great\; Anthony the New of Veria\; George the New Martyr of Ioannina\; Theodosius the Emperor\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: Matthew 11: 27-30 \nThe Lord said to his disciples\, "All things have been delivered to me by my Father\; and no one knows the Son except the Father\, and no o ne knows the Father except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. Come to me\, all who labor and are heavy laden\, and I will gi ve you rest. Take my yoke upon you\, and learn from me\; for I am gentle a nd lowly in heart\, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy\, and my burden is light."\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to t he Hebrews 13:17-21 \nBrethren\, obey your leaders and submit to them\; f or they are keeping watch over your souls\, as men who will have to give a ccount. Let them do this joyfully\, and not sadly\, for that would be of n o advantage to you. Pray for us\, for we are sure that we have a clear con science\, desiring to act honorably in all things. I urge you the more ear nestly to do this in order that I may be restored to you the sooner. Now m ay the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus\, the g reat Shepherd of the sheep\, by the blood of the eternal covenant\, equip you with everything good that you may do His will\, working in you that wh ich is pleasing in His sight\, through Jesus Christ\; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.\n\nGospel Reading: Luke 6:17-23 \nAt that time\, Je sus stood on a level place\, with a great crowd of his disciples and a gre at multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Ty re and Sidon\, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases\; a nd those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. And all the cr owd sought to touch him\, for power came forth from him and healed them al l. And he lifted up his eyes on His disciples\, and said: "Blessed are you poor\, for yours is the Kingdom of God. Blessed are you that hunger now\, for you shall be satisfied. Blessed are you that weep now\, for you shall laugh. Blessed are you when men hate you\, and when they exclude you and revile you\, and cast out your name as evil\, on account of the Son of man ! Rejoice in that day\, and leap for joy\, for behold\, your reward is gre at in heaven."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260117 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260118 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132877 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132879 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: 12th Sunday of Luke DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 01/18/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 12th Sunday of Luke\; Athanasios and Cyril\, Patriarchs of Alexandria \; Zenia the Martyr\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: John 21:1-14 \nAt that time \, Jesus revealed Himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias\; and He revealed Himself in this way. Simon Peter\, Thomas\, called the Twi n\, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee\, the sons of Zebedee\, and two others of His disciples were together. Simon Peter said to them\, "I am going fishi ng." They said to him\, "We will go with you." They went out and got into the boat\, but that night they caught nothing. Just as day was breaking\, Jesus stood on the beach\, yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesu s. Jesus said to them\, "Children\, have you any fish?" They answered him\ , "No." He said to them\, "Cast the net on the right side of the boat\, an d you will find some." So they cast it\, and now they were not able to hau l it in\, for the quantity of fish. That disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter\, "It is the Lord!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord\, h e put on his clothes\, for he was stripped for work\, and sprang into the sea. But the other disciples came in the boat\, dragging the net full of f ish\, for they were not far from the land\, but about a hundred yards off. When they got out on land\, they saw a charcoal fire there with fish lyin g on it\, and bread. Jesus said to them\, "Bring some of the fish that you have just caught." So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore\, full of large fish\, a hundred and fifty-three of them\; and although the re were so many\, the net was not torn. Jesus said to them\, "Come and hav e breakfast." Now none of the disciples dared ask Him\, "Who are you?" The y knew it was the Lord. Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them\ , and so with the fish. This was now the third time that Jesus was reveale d to the disciples after He was raised from the dead..\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 13:7-16 \nBrethren\, remember your lead ers\, those who spoke to you the word of God\; consider the outcome of the ir lives\, and imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever. Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings\; for it is well that the heart be strengthened by grace\, not by foods\, w hich have not benefited their adherents. We have an altar from which those who serve the tent have no right to eat. For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest as a sacrific e for sin are burned outside the camp. So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood. Therefore let us go forth to him outside the camp and bear the abuse he endured. For her e we have no lasting city\, but we seek the city which is to come. Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God\, that is\, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name. Do not neglect to do goo d and to share what you have\, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.\n\ nGospel Reading: Luke 17:12-19 \nAt that time\, as Jesus entered a villag e\, he was met by ten lepers\, who stood at a distance and lifted up their voices and said: "Jesus\, Master\, have mercy on us." When he saw them he said to them\, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And as they went they were cleansed. Then one of them\, when he saw that he was healed\, tu rned back\, praising God with a loud voice\; and he fell on his face at Je sus's feet\, giving him thanks. Now he was a Samaritan. Then said Jesus: " Were not ten cleansed? Where are the nine? Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?" And he said to him: "Rise and g o your way\; your faith has made you well."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260118 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260119 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132879 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132880 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Macarius the Great of Egypt DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 01/19/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Macarius the Great of Egypt\; Makarios of Alexandria\; Mark\, Bishop of Ephesus\; Makarios\, Hierodeacon of Kalogera\, Patmos\; Arsenius of Cor fu\; Removal of the Honorable Relics of Saint Gregory the Theologian\; Bra nwallader\, Bishop of Jersey\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Galatians 5:22-26\; 6:1-2 \nBrethren\, the fruit of the Spirit is love\, joy\, peace\, patience\, kindness\, goodness\, faithfulness\, gentleness\, self-control\; against such there is no law. And those who belong to Chri st Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we liv e by the Spirit\, let us also walk by the Spirit. Let us have no self-conc eit\, no provoking of one another\, no envy of one another. Brethren\, if a man is overtaken in any trespass\, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Look to yourself\, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another's burdens\, and so fulfill the law of Christ.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 22:35-46 \nAt that time\, a lawyer came up to Jesus and asked him a question\, to test him. "Teacher\, which is the great commandm ent in the law?" And he said to him\, "You shall love the Lord your God wi th all your heart\, and with all your soul\, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it\, You shall lo ve your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets."\n\nNow while the Pharisees were gathered together\, Je sus asked them a question\, saying\, "What do you think of the Christ? Who se son is he?" They said to him\, "The son of David." He said to them\, "H ow is it then that David\, inspired by the Spirit\, calls him Lord\, sayin g\, 'The Lord said to my Lord\, Sit at my right hand\, till I put your ene mies under your feet'? If David thus calls him Lord\, how is he his son?" And no one was able to answer him a word\, nor from that day did anyone da re to ask him any more questions.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260119 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260120 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132880 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132881 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Righteous Euthymius the Great DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 01/20/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Righteous Euthymius the Great\; John the Hieromartyr\; Zacharias the New Martyr of Patra\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Second Letter to the Co rinthians 4:6-15 \nBrethren\, it is the God who said\, "Let light shine o ut of darkness\," who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the kno wledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.\n\nBut we have this trea sure in earthen vessels\, to show that the transcendent power belongs to G od and not to us. We are afflicted in every way\, but not crushed\; perple xed\, but not driven to despair\; persecuted\, but not forsaken\; struck d own\, but not destroyed\; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus\, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For while we live we are always being given up to death for Jesus' sake\, so that t he life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So death is at wor k in us\, but life in you.\n\nSince we have the same spirit of faith as he had who wrote\, "I believed\, and so I spoke\," we too believe\, and so w e speak\, knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also wit h Jesus and bring us with you into his presence. For it is all for your sa ke\, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase than ksgiving\, to the glory of God.\n\nGospel Reading: Luke 6:17-23 \nAt that time\, Jesus stood on a level place\, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seac oast of Tyre and Sidon\, who came to hear him and to be healed of their di seases\; and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. And all the crowd sought to touch him\, for power came forth from him and heal ed them all. And he lifted up his eyes on His disciples\, and said: "Bless ed are you poor\, for yours is the Kingdom of God. Blessed are you that hu nger now\, for you shall be satisfied. Blessed are you that weep now\, for you shall laugh. Blessed are you when men hate you\, and when they exclud e you and revile you\, and cast out your name as evil\, on account of the Son of man! Rejoice in that day\, and leap for joy\, for behold\, your rew ard is great in heaven."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260120 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260121 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132881 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132882 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Maximus the Confessor DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 01/21/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Maximus the Confessor\; Martyrs Neophytos\, Agnes\, Patroclus\, Maxim us the Greek and Eugene of Trebizond\; Neophytos the Martyr of Nicaea\n\nS trict Fast\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Philippians 1:12-2 0 \nBrethren\, I want you to know that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel\, so that it has become known throughout the praetorian guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ\; and most of the brethren have been made confident in the Lord because of my imprisonment\, and are much more bold to speak the word of God without fear. Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry\, but others from go od will. The latter do it out of love\, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel\; the former proclaim Christ out of partisanship\, not sincerely but thinking to afflict me in my imprisonment. What then? On ly that in every way\, whether in pretense or in truth\, Christ is proclai med\; and in that I rejoice. Yes\, and I shall rejoice. For I know that th rough your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will tu rn out for my deliverance\, as it is my eager expectation and hope.\n\nGos pel Reading: Luke 12:8-12 \nThe Lord said to His disciples\, "Every one w ho acknowledges me before men\, the Son of Man also will acknowledge befor e the angels of God\; but he who denies me before men will be denied befor e the angels of God. And every one who speaks a word against the Son of Ma n will be forgiven\; but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will no t be forgiven. And when they bring you before the synagogues and the ruler s and the authorities\, do not be anxious how or what you are to answer or what you are to say\; for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hou r what you ought to say."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260121 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260122 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132882 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132883 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Timothy the Apostle of the 70 DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 01/22/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Timothy the Apostle of the 70\; The Righteous Martyr Anastasius of Pe rsia\; Joseph the Sanctified\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Second Letter to Timothy 1:3-8 \nTimothy\, my son\, I thank God whom I serve with a cle ar conscience\, as did my fathers\, when I remember you constantly in my p rayers. As I remember your tears\, I long night and day to see you\, that I may be filled with joy. I am reminded of your sincere faith\, a faith th at dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now\, I am sure\, dwells in you. Hence I remind you to rekindle the gift of God t hat is within you through the laying on of my hands\; for God did not give us a spirit of timidity but a spirit of power and love and self-control.\ n\nDo not be ashamed then of testifying to our Lord\, nor of me his prison er\, but share in suffering for the gospel in the power of God.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 10:32-33\; 37-38\; 19:27-30 \nThe Lord said to his disci ples\, "Every one who acknowledges me before men\, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven\; but whoever denies me before men\, I also will deny him before my Father who is in heaven. He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me\; and he who loves son or daugh ter more than me is not worthy of me\; and he who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me." Then Peter said in reply\, "Lo\, we ha ve left everything and followed you. What then shall we have?" Jesus said to them\, "Truly\, I say to you\, in the new world\, when the Son of man s hall sit on his glorious throne\, you who have followed me will also sit o n twelve thrones\, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And every one who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands\, for my name's sake\, will receive a hundredfold\, and inherit eter nal life. But many that are first will be last\, and the last first."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260122 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260123 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132883 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1975776403 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:IOCC health kits (Beth Papas) DESCRIPTION:Who: Beth Papas\n\n CATEGORIES:Children's Ministry CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260123T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260123T170000 CREATED:20251022T233539Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1975776403 X-TEAMUP-WHO:Beth Papas END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132884 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Hieromartyr Clement\, Bishop of Ancyra DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 01/23/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Hieromartyr Clement\, Bishop of Ancyra\; Agathangelus the Martyr\; Ri ghteous Father Dionysius of Olympus\n\nStrict Fast\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Philippians 3:20-21\; 4:1-3 \nBrethren\, our common wealth is in heaven\, and from it we await a Savior\, the Lord Jesus Chris t\, who will change our lowly body to be like his glorious body\, by the p ower which enables him even to subject all things to himself. Therefore\, my brethren\, whom I love and long for\, my joy and crown\, stand firm thu s in the Lord\, my beloved. I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agr ee in the Lord. And I ask you also\, true yokefellow\, help these women\, for they have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Cle ment and the rest of my fellow workers\, whose names are in the book of li fe.\n\nGospel Reading: Mark 2:23-28\; 3:1-5 \nAt that time\, Jesus was go ing through the grainfields\; and as they made their way his disciples beg an to pluck heads of grain. And the Pharisees said to him\, "Look\, why ar e they doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?" And he said to them\, "Ha ve you never read what David did\, when he was in need and was hungry\, he and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God\, when Abiat har was high priest\, and ate the bread of the Presence\, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat\, and also gave it to those who were with him?" And he said to them\, "The sabbath was made for man\, not man for the sabbath\; so the Son of man is lord even of the sabbath."\n\nAgain he entered the synagogue\, and a man was there who had a withered hand. A nd they watched him\, to see whether he would heal him on the sabbath\, so that they might accuse him. And he said to the man who had the withered h and\, "Come here." And he said to them\, "Is it lawful on the sabbath to d o good or to do harm\, to save life or to kill?" But they were silent. And he looked around at them with anger\, grieved at their hardness of heart\ , and said to the man\, "Stretch it out\," and his hand was restored.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260123 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260124 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132884 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1975776806 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:IOCC health kits (Beth Papas) DESCRIPTION:Who: Beth Papas\n\n CATEGORIES:Children's Ministry CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260124T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260124T133000 CREATED:20251022T233644Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1975776806 X-TEAMUP-WHO:Beth Papas END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132885 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Xenia\, Deaconess of Rome DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 01/24/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Xenia\, Deaconess of Rome\; Vavylas the Holy Martyr\; Xenia of St. Pe tersburg\, Fool-for-Christ\; Philo the Wonderworker\, Bishop of Karpasia i n Cyprus\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Galatians 5:22-26\; 6:1-2 \nBrethren\, the fruit of the Spirit is love\, joy\, peace\, patien ce\, kindness\, goodness\, faithfulness\, gentleness\, self-control\; agai nst such there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucif ied the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit\, le t us also walk by the Spirit. Let us have no self-conceit\, no provoking o f one another\, no envy of one another. Brethren\, if a man is overtaken i n any trespass\, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of g entleness. Look to yourself\, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another's burdens\, and so fulfill the law of Christ.\n\nGospel Reading: Luke 18:35- 43 \nAt that time\, as Jesus drew near to Jericho\, a blind man was sitti ng by the roadside begging\; and hearing a multitude going by\, he inquire d what this meant. They told him\, "Jesus of Nazareth is passing by." And he cried\, "Jesus\, Son of David\, have mercy on me!" And those who were i n front rebuked him\, telling him to be silent\; but he cried out all the more\, "Son of David\, have mercy on me!" And Jesus stopped\, and commande d him to be brought to him\; and when he came near\, he asked him\, "What do you want me to do for you?" He said\, "Lord\, let me receive my sight." And Jesus said to him\, "Receive your sight\; your faith has made you wel l." And immediately he received his sight and followed him\, glorifying Go d\; and all the people\, when they saw it\, gave praise to God.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260124 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260125 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132885 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2029350513 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Antiochian Women Meeting CATEGORIES:Antiochian Women CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260125T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260125T123000 CREATED:20260122T163349Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2029350513 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132887 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: 15th Sunday of Luke DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 01/25/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 15th Sunday of Luke\; Gregory the Theologian\, Archbishop of Constant inople\; Kastinos\, Archbishop of Constantinople\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: John 21:14-25 \nAt that time\, Jesus revealed himself to the disciples a fter he was raised from the dead. And he said to Simon Peter\, "Simon\, so n of John\, do you love me more than these?" He said to him\, "Yes\, Lord\ ; you know that I love you." He said to him\, "Feed my lambs." A second ti me he said to him\, "Simon\, son of John\, do you love me?" He said to him \, "Yes\, Lord\; you know that I love you." He said to him\, "Tend my shee p." He said to him the third time\, "Simon\, son of John\, do you love me? " Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time\, "Do you love m e?" And he said to him\, "Lord\, you know everything\; you know that I lov e you." Jesus said to him\, "Feed my sheep. Truly\, truly\, I say to you\, when you were young\, you girded yourself and walked where you would\; bu t when you are old\, you will stretch out your hands\, and another will gi rd you and carry you where you do not wish to go." (This he said to show b y what death he was to glorify God.) And after this he said to him\, "Foll ow me." Peter turned and saw following them the disciple whom Jesus loved\ , who had lain close to his breast at the supper and had said\, "Lord\, wh o is it that is going to betray you?" When Peter saw him\, he said to Jesu s\, "Lord\, what about this man?" Jesus said to him\, "If it is my will th at he remain until I come\, what is that to you? Follow me!" The saying sp read abroad among the brethren that this disciple was not to die\; yet Jes us did not say to him that he was not to die\, but\, "If it is my will tha t he remain until I come\, what is that to you?" This is the disciple who is bearing witness to these things\, and who has written these things\; an d we know that his testimony is true. But there are also many other things which Jesus did\; were every one of them to be written\, I suppose that t he world itself could not contain the books that would be written. Amen.\n \nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 7:26-28\; 8:1-2 \nBre thren\, it was fitting that we should have such a high priest\, holy\, bla meless\, unstained\, separated from sinners\, exalted above the heavens. H e has no need\, like those high priests\, to offer sacrifices daily\, firs t for his own sins and then for those of the people\; he did this once for all when he offered up himself. Indeed\, the law appoints men in their we akness as high priests\, but the word of the oath\, which came later than the law\, appoints a Son who has been made perfect for ever. Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest\, one who is se ated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven\, a minister in the sanctuary and the true tent which is set up not by man but by the Lord.\n\nGospel Reading: Luke 19:1-10 \nAt that time\, Jesus was passing through Jericho. And there was a man named Zacchaios\; he was a chief coll ector\, and rich. And he sought to see who Jesus was\, but could not\, on account of the crowd\, because he was small of stature. So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him\, for he was to pass that way. And when Jesus came to the place\, he looked up and said to him\, "Za cchaios\, make haste and come down\; for I must stay at your house today." So he made haste and came down\, and received him joyfully. And when they saw it they all murmured\, "He has gone in to be the guest of a man who i s a sinner." And Zacchaios stood and said to the Lord\, "Behold\, Lord\, t he half of my goods I give to the poor\; and if I have defrauded any one o f anything\, I restore it fourfold." And Jesus said to him\, "Today salvat ion has come to this house\, since he also is a son of Abraham. For the So n of man came to seek and to save the lost."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260125 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260126 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132887 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132889 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Xenophon & his Companions DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 01/26/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Xenophon &\; his Companions\; Symeon the Elder of Mount Sinai\n\nE pistle Reading: St. Peter's First Universal Letter 2:21-25\; 3:1-9 \nBelo ved\, Christ suffered for you\, leaving you an example\, that you should f ollow in his steps. He committed no sin\; no guile was found on his lips. When he was reviled\, he did not revile in return\; when he suffered\, he did not threaten\; but he trusted to him who judges justly. He himself bor e our sins in his body on the tree\, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. For you were straying l ike sheep\, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your sou ls.\n\nLikewise you wives\, be submissive to your husbands\, so that some\ , though they do not obey the word\, may be won without a word by the beha vior of their wives\, when they see your reverent and chaste behavior. Let not yours be the outward adorning with braiding of hair\, decoration of g old\, and wearing of fine clothing\, but let it be the hidden person of th e heart with the imperishable jewel of a gentle and quiet spirit\, which i n God's sight is very precious. So once the holy women who hoped in God us ed to adorn themselves and were submissive to their husbands\, as Sarah ob eyed Abraham\, calling him lord. And you are now her children if you do ri ght and let nothing terrify you.\n\nLikewise you husbands\, live considera tely with your wives\, bestowing honor on the woman as the weaker sex\, si nce you are joint heirs of the grace of life\, in order that your prayers may not be hindered.\n\nFinally\, all of you\, have unity of spirit\, symp athy\, love of the brethren\, a tender heart and a humble mind. Do not ret urn evil for evil or reviling for reviling\; but on the contrary bless\, f or to this you have been called\, that you may obtain a blessing.\n\nGospe l Reading: Mark 12:13-17 \nAt that time\, the chief priests and scribes s ent to Jesus some of the Pharisees and some of the Herodians\, to entrap h im in his talk. And they came and said to him\, "Teacher\, we know that yo u are true\, and care for no man\; for you do not regard the position of m en\, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar\, or not? Should we pay them\, or should we not?" But knowing their hypocri sy\, he said to them\, "Why put me to the test? Bring me a coin\, and let me look at it." And they brought one. And he said to them\, "Whose likenes s and inscription is this?" They said to him\, "Caesar's." Jesus said to t hem\, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's\, and to God the thin gs that are God's." And they were amazed at him.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260126 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260127 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132889 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132891 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Removal of the Relics of John Chrysostom\, Archbishop of Constanti nople DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 01/27/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Removal of the Relics of John Chrysostom\, Archbishop of Constantinop le\; Peter the Righteous of Egypt\; Demetrios the New Martyr of Constantin ople\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: John 10:1-9 \nThe Lord said to the Jews wh o had come to him\, "Truly\, truly\, I say to you\, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way\, that man is a thi ef and a robber\; but he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the she ep. To him the gatekeeper opens\; the sheep hear his voice\, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own\, he goes before them\, and the sheep follow him\, for they know his v oice. A stranger they will not follow\, but they will flee from him\, for they do not know the voice of strangers." This figure Jesus used with them \, but they did not understand what he was saying to them. So Jesus again said to them\, "Truly\, truly\, I say to you\, I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers\; but the sheep did not he ed them. I am the door\; if any one enters by me\, he will be saved\, and will go in and out and find pasture."\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Lette r to the Hebrews 7:26-28\; 8:1-2 \nBrethren\, it was fitting that we shou ld have such a high priest\, holy\, blameless\, unstained\, separated from sinners\, exalted above the heavens. He has no need\, like those high pri ests\, to offer sacrifices daily\, first for his own sins and then for tho se of the people\; he did this once for all when he offered up himself. In deed\, the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests\, but the wo rd of the oath\, which came later than the law\, appoints a Son who has be en made perfect for ever. Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest\, one who is seated at the right hand of the thron e of the Majesty in heaven\, a minister in the sanctuary and the true tent which is set up not by man but by the Lord.\n\nGospel Reading: John 10:9- 16 \nThe Lord said\, "I am the door\; if any one enters by me\, he will b e saved\, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy\; I came that they may have life\, and have it abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. He who is a hireling and not a shepherd\, whose own the she ep are not\, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees\; and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. He flees because he is a hireling a nd cares nothing for the sheep. I am the good shepherd\; I know my own and my own know me\, as the Father knows me and I know the Father\; and I lay down my life for the sheep. And I have other sheep\, that are not of this fold\; I must bring them also\, and they will heed my voice. So there sha ll be one flock\, one shepherd."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260127 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260128 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132891 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132892 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Ephraim the Syrian DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 01/28/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Ephraim the Syrian\; Isaac the Syrian\, Bishop of Ninevah\; James the Righteous\; Palladios the Hermit of Antioch\; Theodosius of Totma\; Grace the Martyr\n\nStrict Fast\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Ga latians 5:22-26\; 6:1-2 \nBrethren\, the fruit of the Spirit is love\, jo y\, peace\, patience\, kindness\, goodness\, faithfulness\, gentleness\, s elf-control\; against such there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit\, let us also walk by the Spirit. Let us have no self-concei t\, no provoking of one another\, no envy of one another. Brethren\, if a man is overtaken in any trespass\, you who are spiritual should restore hi m in a spirit of gentleness. Look to yourself\, lest you too be tempted. B ear one another's burdens\, and so fulfill the law of Christ.\n\nGospel Re ading: Luke 6:17-23 \nAt that time\, Jesus stood on a level place\, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Ju dea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon\, who came to hear hi m and to be healed of their diseases\; and those who were troubled with un clean spirits were cured. And all the crowd sought to touch him\, for powe r came forth from him and healed them all. And he lifted up his eyes on Hi s disciples\, and said: "Blessed are you poor\, for yours is the Kingdom o f God. Blessed are you that hunger now\, for you shall be satisfied. Bless ed are you that weep now\, for you shall laugh. Blessed are you when men h ate you\, and when they exclude you and revile you\, and cast out your nam e as evil\, on account of the Son of man! Rejoice in that day\, and leap f or joy\, for behold\, your reward is great in heaven."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260128 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260129 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132892 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132893 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Removal of the Relics of Ignatius the God-bearer DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 01/29/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Removal of the Relics of Ignatius the God-bearer\; Ignatius and Nican drus of Sinai\; Laurence the Recluse of the Kiev Caves\; Gildas the Wise\n \nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 10:32-38 \nBrethren\, recall the former days when\, after you were enlightened\, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings\, sometimes being publicly exposed to abuse and affliction\, and sometimes being partners with those so treated. For y ou had compassion on the prisoners\, and you joyfully accepted the plunder ing of your property\, since you knew that you yourselves had a better pos session and an abiding one. Therefore do not throw away your confidence\, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance\, so that you may do the will of God and receive what is promised. "For yet a little while\ , and the coming one shall come and shall not tarry\; but my righteous one shall live by faith."\n\nGospel Reading: Mark 9:33-41 \nAt that time\, J esus and his disciples came to Capernaum\, and when he was in the house he asked them\, "What were you discussing on the way?" But they were silent\ ; for on the way they had discussed with one another who was the greatest. And he sat down and called the twelve\; and he said to them\, "If any one would be first\, he must be last of all and servant of all." And he took a child\, and put him in the midst of them\; and taking him in his arms\, he said to them\, "Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me\ ; and whoever receives me\, receives not me but him who sent me." John sai d to him\, "Teacher\, we saw a man casting out demons in your name\, and w e forbade him\, because he was not following us." But Jesus said\, "Do not forbid him\; for no one who does a mighty work in my name will be able so on after to speak evil of me. For he that is not against us is for us. For truly\, I say to you\, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you bear the name of Christ\, will by no means lose his reward."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260129 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260130 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132893 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132894 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 Synaxis of The Three Hierarchs: Basil the Great\, Gregory the Theologian\, & John Chrysostom DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 01/30/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Synaxis of The Three Hierarchs: Basil the Great\, Gregory the Theolog ian\, &\; John Chrysostom\; Hippolytos\, Pope of Rome\; Athanasia the M artyr &\; her 3 daughters\n\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: John 10:9-16 \nThe Lord said\, "I am the door\; if any on e enters by me\, he will be saved\, and will go in and out and find pastur e. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy\; I came that they m ay have life\, and have it abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good sh epherd lays down his life for the sheep. He who is a hireling and not a sh epherd\, whose own the sheep are not\, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees\; and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. He flees because he is a hireling and cares nothing for the sheep. I am the good sh epherd\; I know my own and my own know me\, as the Father knows me and I k now the Father\; and I lay down my life for the sheep. And I have other sh eep\, that are not of this fold\; I must bring them also\, and they will h eed my voice. So there shall be one flock\, one shepherd."\n\nEpistle Read ing: St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 13:7-16 \nBrethren\, remember your leaders\, those who spoke to you the word of God\; consider the outcome of their lives\, and imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever. Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachin gs\; for it is well that the heart be strengthened by grace\, not by foods \, which have not benefited their adherents. We have an altar from which t hose who serve the tent have no right to eat. For the bodies of those anim als whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest as a sacr ifice for sin are burned outside the camp. So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood. Therefore let us go forth to him outside the camp and bear the abuse he endured. For here we have no lasting city\, but we seek the city which is to come. Thr ough him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God\, t hat is\, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name. Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have\, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God .\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 5:14-19 \nThe Lord said to his disciples\, " You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid. Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel\, but on a stand\, and it give s light to all in the house. Let your light so shine before men\, that the y may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven. Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets\; I have co me not to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly\, I say to you\, til l heaven and earth pass away\, not an iota\, not a dot\, will pass from th e law until all is accomplished. Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so\, shall be called least in the kingd om of heaven\; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260130 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260131 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132894 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132895 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Cyrus & John the Unmercenaries DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 01/31/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Cyrus &\; John the Unmercenaries\; Holy Women Martyrs Theodote\, T heoktiste and Eudoxia\; Our Righteous Father Arsenius of Parus\; Elias Ard ounis the New Righteous-Martyr of Mount Athos\; Aed from Ferns\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 12:27-31\; 13:1-8 \nB rethren\, you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. And G od has appointed in the church first apostles\, second prophets\, third te achers\, then workers of miracles\, then healers\, helpers\, administrator s\, speakers in various kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophe ts? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all possess gifts of healin g? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? But earnestly desire the h igher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels\, but have not love\, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers\, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge\, and if I have all faith\, so as to remove mo untains\, but have not love\, I am nothing. If I give away all I have\, an d if I deliver my body to be burned\, but have not love\, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind\; love is not jealous or boastful\; it is not arr ogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way\; it is not irritable o r resentful\; it does not rejoice at wrong\, but rejoices in the right. Lo ve bears all things\, believes all things\, hopes all things\, endures all things. Love never ends.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 10:1\, 5-8 \nAt that time\, Jesus called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority o ver unclean spirits\, to cast them out\, and to heal every disease and eve ry infirmity. These twelve Jesus sent out\, charging them\, "Go nowhere am ong the Gentiles\, and enter no town of the Samaritans\, but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And preach as you go\, saying\, 'Th e kingdom of heaven is at hand.' Heal the sick\, raise the dead\, cleanse lepers\, cast out demons. You received without paying\, give without pay." \n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260131 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260201 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132895 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132896 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee: Triodion Begins Today DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 02/01/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee: Triodion Begins Today\; Forefeas t of the Presentation of Our Lord and Savior in the Temple\; Trypho the Ma rtyr\; Perpetua &\; her Companions\; Our Holy Father Basil\, Archbishop of Thessolonica\; Anastasios the New Martyr of Navplion\; The Four Martyr s Andrianus\, Polyeuktos\, Plato and George who contested in Megara\; Timo thy the Confessor\; Bridget of Ireland\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: Matthew 2 8:16-20 \nAt that time\, the eleven disciples went to Galilee\, to the mo untain to which Jesus had directed them. And when they saw Him they worshi ped Him\; but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them\, "All authori ty in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Go therefore and make disc iples of all nations\, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the So n and the Holy Spirit\, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you\; and lo\, I am with you always\, to the close of the age. Amen."\n\n Epistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 8:28-39 \nBrethren\, we know that everything works for good with those who love God\, who are call ed according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestine d to be conformed to the image of his Son\, in order that he might be the first-born among many brethren. And those whom he predestined he also call ed\; and those whom he called he also justified\; and those whom he justif ied he also glorified.\n\nWhat then shall we say to this? If God is for us \, who is against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all\, will he not also give us all things with him? Who shall bring an y charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies\; who is to condemn? It is Christ Jesus\, who died\, yes\, who was raised from the dead\, who is at the right hand of God\, who indeed intercedes for us. Who shall sepa rate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation\, or distress\, or pers ecution\, or famine\, or nakedness\, or peril\, or sword? As it is written \, "For thy sake we are being killed all the day long\; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered." No\, in all these things we are more than conqu erors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death\, nor lif e\, nor angels\, nor principalities\, nor things present\, nor things to c ome\, nor powers\, nor height\, nor depth\, nor anything else in all creat ion\, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.\n\nGospel Reading: Luke 18:10-14 \nThe Lord said this parable\, "T wo men went up into the temple to pray\, one a Pharisee and the other a ta x collector. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself\, 'God\, I th ank you that I am not like other men\, extortioners\, unjust\, adulterers\ , or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week\, I give tithes of all that I get.' But the tax collector\, standing far off\, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven\, but beat his breast\, saying\, 'God\, be mer ciful to me a sinner!' I tell you\, this man went down to his house justif ied rather than the other\; for everyone who exalts himself will be humble d\, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260201 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260202 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132896 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132898 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: The Presentation of Our Lord and Savior in the Temple DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 02/02/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: The Presentation of Our Lord and Savior in the Temple\; Gabriel the N ew Martyr of Constantinople\; Jordan the New Martyr\; Agathadoros the Mart yr of Cappadocia\n\nFast Free\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: Luke 2:25-32 \nAt that time\, there was a man in Jerusalem\, whose name was Symeon\, and th is man was righteous and devout\, looking for the consolation of Israel\, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. And it had been revealed to him by the H oly Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord's Chri st. And inspired by the Spirit he came into the temple\; and when the pare nts brought in the child Jesus\, to do for him according to the custom of the law\, he took him up in his arms and blessed God and said\, "Lord\, no w let your servant depart in peace\, according to your word\; for my eyes have seen your salvation which you have prepared in the presence of all pe oples\, a light for revelation to the Gentiles\, and for glory to your peo ple Israel."\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 7:7-17 \nBRETHREN\, it is beyond dispute that the inferior is blessed by the supe rior. Here tithes are received by mortal men\; there\, by one whom it is t estified that he lives. One might even say that Levi himself\, who receive s tithes\, paid tithes through Abraham\, for he was still in the loins of his ancestor when Melchizedek met him. Now if perfection had been attainab le through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law)\, what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek\, rather than one named after the order of Aaron? For when there is a change in the priesthood\, there is necessaril y a change in the law as well. For the one of whom these things are spoken belonged to another tribe\, from which no one has ever served at the alta r. For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah\, and in conne ction with that tribe Moses said nothing about priests. This becomes even more evident when another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek\, w ho has become a priest\, not according to a legal requirement concerning b odily descent but by the power of an indestructible life. For it is witnes sed of him\, "Thou art a priest for ever\, after the order of Melchizedek. "\n\nGospel Reading: Luke 2:22-40 \nAt that time\, the parents brought th e child Jesus up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord (as it is written in the law of the Lord\, "Every male that opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord") and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in t he law of the Lord\, "a pair of turtle doves\, or two young pigeons." Now there was a man in Jerusalem\, whose name was Symeon\, and this man was ri ghteous and devout\, looking for the consolation of Israel\, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit th at he should not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ. And inspi red by the Spirit he came into the temple\; and when the parents brought i n the child Jesus\, to do for him according to the custom of the law\, he took him up in his arms and blessed God and said\,\n\n"Lord\, now let your servant depart in peace\, according to your word\; for my eyes have seen your salvation which you have prepared in the presence of all peoples\, a light for revelation to the Gentiles\, and for glory to your people Israel ."\n\nAnd his father and his mother marveled at what was said about him\; and Symeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother\, "Behold\, this child is set for the fall and rising of many in Israel\, and for a sign that is spoken against (and a sword will pierce through your own soul also)\, tha t thoughts of many hearts may be revealed." And there was a prophetess\, A nna\, the daughter of Phanuel\, of the tribe of Asher\; she was of a great age\, having lived with her husband seven years from her virginity\, and as a widow till she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple\, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day. And coming up at that ve ry hour she gave thanks to God\, and spoke of him to all who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem. And when they had performed everything ac cording to the law of the Lord\, they returned into Galilee\, to their own city\, Nazareth. And the child grew and became strong\, filled with wisdo m\; and the favor of God was upon him.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260202 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260203 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132898 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132899 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Afterfeast of the Presentation of Our Lord and Savior in the Templ e DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 02/03/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Afterfeast of the Presentation of Our Lord and Savior in the Temple\; The Synaxis of the Holy and Righteous Symeon the God-Receiver and the Hol y Prophetess Anna\; Stamatios\, John\, &\; Nicholas\, New Martyrs of Sp etses\; Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos \; Nicholas\, Archbishop &\; Enlightener of Japan\; Ansgar of Hamburg-Bremen\n\nFast Free\n\nEpistle R eading: St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 9:11-14 \nBRETHREN\, when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come\, then throug h the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands\, that is\, not o f this creation) he entered once for all into the Holy Place\, taking not the blood of goats and calves but his own blood\, thus securing an eternal redemption. For if the sprinkling of defiled persons with the blood of go ats and bulls and with the ashes of a heifer sanctifies for the purificati on of the flesh\, how much more shall the blood of Christ\, who through th e eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God\, purify your cons cience from dead works to serve the living God.\n\nGospel Reading: Luke 2: 25-38 \nAt that time\, there was a man in Jerusalem\, whose name was Syme on and this man was righteous and devout\, looking for the consolation of Israel\, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Lo rd's Christ. And inspired by the Spirit he came into the temple\; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus\, to do for him according to the c ustom of the law\, he took him up in his arms and blessed God and said\, " Lord\, now let your servant depart in peace\, according to your word\; for my eyes have seen your salvation which you have prepared in the presence of all peoples\, a light for revelation to the Gentiles\, and for glory to your people Israel." And his father and his mother marveled at what was s aid about him\; and Symeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother\, "Beh old\, this child is set for the fall and rising of many in Israel\, and fo r a sign that is spoken against (and a sword will pierce through your own soul also)\, that thoughts out of many hearts may be revealed." And there was a prophetess\, Anna\, the daughter of Phanuel\, of the tribe of Asher\ ; she was of a great age\, having lived with her husband seven years from her virginity\, and as a widow till she was eighty-four. She did not depar t from the temple\, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day. And coming up at that very hour she gave thanks to God\, and spoke of him to a ll who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260203 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260204 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132899 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132900 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Isidore of Pelusium DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 02/04/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Isidore of Pelusium\; Nicholas the Confessor\; Hieromartyr Abramius\; John the Righteous\, Bishop of Irinopolis\; Theodosios the Righteous\; Jo seph the New Martyr of Aleppo\; Afterfeast of the Presentation of Our Lord and Savior in the Temple\n\nFast Free\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Peter's Sec ond Universal Letter 3:1-18 \nBeloved\, this is now the second letter tha t I have written to you\, and in both of them I have aroused your sincere mind by way of reminder\; that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apos tles. First of all you must understand this\, that scoffers will come in t he last days with scoffing\, following their own passions and saying\, "Wh ere is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep\, all things have continued as they were from the beginning of creation." T hey deliberately ignore this fact\, that by the word of God heavens existe d long ago\, and an earth formed out of water and by means of water\, thro ugh which the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished. But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist have been store d up for fire\, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of un godly men.\n\nBut do not ignore this one fact\, beloved\, that with the Lo rd one day is as a thousand years\, and a thousand years as one day. The L ord is not slow about his promise as some count slowness\, but is forbeari ng toward you\, not wishing that any should perish\, but that all should r each repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief\, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise\, and the elements will be d issolved with fire\, and the earth and the works that are upon it will be burned up.\n\nSince all these things are thus to be dissolved\, what sort of persons ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness\, waiting fo r and hastening the coming of the day of God\, because of which the heaven s will be kindled and dissolved\, and the elements will melt with fire! Bu t according to his promise we wait for new heavens and a new earth in whic h righteousness dwells.\n\nTherefore\, beloved\, since you wait for these\ , be zealous to be found by him without spot or blemish\, and at peace. An d count the forbearance of our Lord as salvation. So also our beloved brot her Paul wrote to you according to the wisdom given him\, speaking of this as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to unde rstand\, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction\, as they do the other scriptures. You therefore\, beloved\, knowing this be forehand\, beware lest you be carried away with the error of lawless men a nd lose your own stability. But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lor d and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.\n\nGospel Reading: Mark 13:24-31 \nThe Lord said to his d isciples\, "In those days\, after that tribulation\, the sun will be darke ned\, and the moon will not give its light\, and the stars will be falling from heaven\, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. And then they will see the Son of man coming in clouds with great power and glory. And he will send out the angels\, and gather his elect from the four winds\, f rom the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven. From the fig tree learn i ts lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts forth its leaves\ , you know that summer is near. So also\, when you see these things taking place\, you know he is near\, at the very gates. Truly\, I say to you\, t his generation will not pass away before all these things take place. Heav en and earth will pass away\, but my words will not pass away."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260204 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260205 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132900 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132901 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Agatha the Martyr DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 02/05/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Agatha the Martyr\; Polyeuktos\, Patriarch Of Constantinople\; Antoni os the New Martyr of Athens\; Theodosios\, Archbishop of Chernigov\; After feast of the Presentation of Our Lord and Savior in the Temple\; Theodosio s of Antioch\n\nFast Free\n\nEpistle Reading: St. John's First Universal L etter 1:8-10\; 2:1-6 \nBrethren\, if we say we have no sin\, we deceive o urselves\, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins\, he is fait hful and just\, and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighte ousness. If we say we have not sinned\, we make him a liar\, and his word is not in us. My little children\, I am writing this to you so that you ma y not sin\; but if any one does sin\, we have an advocate with the Father\ , Jesus Christ the righteous\; and he is the expiation for our sins\, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. And by this we may be sure that we know him\, if we keep his commandments. He who says " I know him" but disobeys his commandments is a liar\, and the truth is not in him\; but whoever keeps his word\, in him truly love for God is perfec ted. By this we may be sure that we are in him: he who says he abides in h im ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.\n\nGospel Reading: Ma rk 13:31-37: 14:1-2 \nThe Lord said to his disciples\, "Heaven and earth will pass away\, but my words will not pass away. But of that day or that hour no one knows\, not even the angels in heaven\, nor the Son\, but only the Father. Take heed\, watch\; for you do not know when the time will co me. It is like a man going on a journey\, when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge\, each with his work\, and commands the doorkeeper to be on the watch. Watch therefore -- for you do not know when the master of the house will come\, in the evening\, or at midnight\, or at cockcrow\, or in the morning -- lest he come suddenly and find you asleep. And what I say to you I say to all: Watch." It was now two days before the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes w ere seeking how to arrest him by stealth\, and kill him\; for they said\, "Not during the feast\, lest there be a tumult of the people."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260205 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260206 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132901 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132902 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Photius the Great\, Patriarch of Constantinople DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 02/06/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Photius the Great\, Patriarch of Constantinople\; Bucolus\, Bishop of Smyrna\; Barsanuphius the Great and John of Gaza\; Afterfeast of the Pres entation of Our Lord and Savior in the Temple\; Ilyan of Homs\n\nFast Free \n\nMatins Gospel Reading: John 10:1-9 \nThe Lord said to the Jews who ha d come to him\, "Truly\, truly\, I say to you\, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way\, that man is a thief a nd a robber\; but he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the gatekeeper opens\; the sheep hear his voice\, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own\ , he goes before them\, and the sheep follow him\, for they know his voice . A stranger they will not follow\, but they will flee from him\, for they do not know the voice of strangers." This figure Jesus used with them\, b ut they did not understand what he was saying to them. So Jesus again said to them\, "Truly\, truly\, I say to you\, I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers\; but the sheep did not heed t hem. I am the door\; if any one enters by me\, he will be saved\, and will go in and out and find pasture."\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 7:26-28\; 8:1-2 \nBrethren\, it was fitting that we should h ave such a high priest\, holy\, blameless\, unstained\, separated from sin ners\, exalted above the heavens. He has no need\, like those high priests \, to offer sacrifices daily\, first for his own sins and then for those o f the people\; he did this once for all when he offered up himself. Indeed \, the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests\, but the word o f the oath\, which came later than the law\, appoints a Son who has been m ade perfect for ever. Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest\, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven\, a minister in the sanctuary and the true tent whi ch is set up not by man but by the Lord.\n\nGospel Reading: John 10:9-16 \nThe Lord said\, "I am the door\; if any one enters by me\, he will be sa ved\, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes only to ste al and kill and destroy\; I came that they may have life\, and have it abu ndantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. He who is a hireling and not a shepherd\, whose own the sheep a re not\, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees\; and the wol f snatches them and scatters them. He flees because he is a hireling and c ares nothing for the sheep. I am the good shepherd\; I know my own and my own know me\, as the Father knows me and I know the Father\; and I lay dow n my life for the sheep. And I have other sheep\, that are not of this fol d\; I must bring them also\, and they will heed my voice. So there shall b e one flock\, one shepherd."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260206 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260207 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132902 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132904 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Parthenius\, Bishop of Lampsacus DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 02/07/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Parthenius\, Bishop of Lampsacus\; Luke of Mount Stirion\; George the New Martyr of Crete\; Theopemptos the Martyr &\; his Companions\; The Synaxis of the New Martyrs of Russia\; Afterfeast of the Presentation of O ur Lord and Savior in the Temple\; Richard\, King of Wessex\n\nFast Free\n \nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's First Letter to Timothy 6:11-16 \nTimothy\, my son\, aim at righteousness\, godliness\, faith\, love\, steadfastness\ , gentleness. Fight the good fight of the faith\; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made the good confession in the pr esence of many witnesses. In the presence of God who gives life to all thi ngs\, and of Christ Jesus who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession\, I charge you to keep the commandment unstained and f ree from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ\; and this will be made manifest at the proper time by the blessed and only Sovereign \, and King of kings and Lord of lords\, who alone has immortality and dwe lls in unapproachable light\, whom no man has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.\n\nGospel Reading: Luke 20:46-47\; 2 1:1-4 \nThe Lord said to his disciples\, "Beware of the scribes\, who lik e to go about in long robes\, and love salutations in the market places an d the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts\, who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will rec eive the greater condemnation." He looked up and saw the rich putting thei r gifts into the treasury\; and he saw a poor widow put in two copper coin s. And he said\, "Truly\, I tell you\, this poor widow has put in more tha n all of them\; for they all contributed out of their abundance\, but she out of her poverty put in all the living that she had." Having said this\, he proclaimed\, "He who has ears let him hear."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260207 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260208 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132904 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132905 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Sunday of the Prodigal Son DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 02/08/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Sunday of the Prodigal Son\; Theodore the Commander &\; Great Mart yr\; The Holy Prophet Zacharias (Zachariah)\; Nicephoros &\; Stephanos the Martyrs\; Afterfeast of the Presentation of Our Lord and Savior in the Temple\; Cuthman of Steyning\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: Mark 16:1-8 \nWhe n the Sabbath was past\, Mary Magdalene\, and Mary the mother of James and Salome\, bought spices\, so that they might go and anoint Jesus. And very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb when the sun had risen. And they were saying to one another\, "Who will roll away the ston e for us from the door of the tomb?" And looking up\, they saw that the st one was rolled back - it was very large. And entering the tomb\, they saw a young man sitting on the right side\, dressed in a white robe\; and they were amazed. And he said to them\, "Do not be amazed\; you seek Jesus of Nazareth\, who was crucified. He has risen\, He is not here\; see the plac e where they laid Him. But go\, tell His disciples and Peter that He is go ing before you to Galilee\; there you will see Him\, as He told you." And they went out and fled from the tomb\, for trembling and astonishment had come upon them\; and they said nothing to anyone\, for they were afraid.\n \nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 6:12-20 \nB rethren\, "all things are lawful for me\," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me\," but I will not be enslaved by anything. "Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food" -- and God will d estroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for immorality\, but for the Lord\, and the Lord for the body. And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. Do you not know that your bodies are membe rs of Christ? Shall I therefore take the members of Christ and make them m embers of a prostitute? Never! Do you not know that he who joins himself t o a prostitute becomes one body with her? For\, as it is written\, "The tw o shall become one flesh." But he who is united to the Lord becomes one sp irit with him. Shun immorality. Every other sin which a man commits is out side the body\; but the immoral man sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you\, which you have from God? You are not your own\; you were bought with a price. So glo rify God in your body and in your spirit which belong to God.\n\nGospel Re ading: Luke 15:11-32 \nThe Lord said this parable: "There was a man who h ad two sons\; and the younger of them said to his father\, 'Father\, give me the share of the property that falls to me.' And he divided his living between them. Not many days later\, the younger son gathered all he had an d took his journey into a far country\, and there he squandered his proper ty in loose living. And when he had spent everything\, a great famine aros e in that country\, and he began to be in want. So he went and joined hims elf to one of the citizens of that country\, who sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would gladly have filled his belly with the pods tha t the swine ate\; and no one gave him anything. But when he came to himsel f he said\, 'How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough and to spare\, but I perish here with hunger! I will arise and go to my father \, and I will say to him\, 'Father\, I have sinned against heaven and befo re you\; I am no longer worthy to be called your son\; treat me as one of your hired servants.' And he arose and came to his father. But while he wa s yet at a distance\, his father saw him and had compassion\, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. And the son said to him\, 'Father\, I have si nned against heaven and before you\; I am no longer worthy to be called yo ur son.' But the father said to his servants\, 'Bring quickly the best rob e\, and put it on him\; and put a ring on his hand\, and shoes on his feet \; and bring the fatted calf and kill it\, and let us eat and make merry\; for this my son was dead\, and is alive again\; he was lost\, and is foun d.' And they began to make merry. Now his elder son was in the field\; and as he came and drew near to the house\, he heard music and dancing. And h e called one of the servants and asked what this meant. And he said to him \, 'Your brother has come\, and your father has killed the fatted calf\, b ecause he has received him safe and sound.' But he was angry and refused t o go in. His father came out and entreated him\, but he answered his fathe r\, 'Lo\, these many years I have served you\, and I never disobeyed your command\; yet you never gave me a kid\, that I might make merry with my fr iends. But when this son of yours came\, who has devoured your living with harlots\, you killed for him the fatted calf!' And he said to him\, 'Son\ , you are always with me\, and all that is mine is yours. It was fitting t o make merry and be glad\, for this your brother was dead\, and is alive\; he was lost\, and is found.'"\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260208 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260209 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132905 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132906 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Leavetaking of the Presentation of Our Lord and Savior in the Temp le DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 02/09/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Leavetaking of the Presentation of Our Lord and Savior in the Temple\ ; Nicephoros the Martyr of Antioch\; Markellos\, Philagrios\, &\; Pankr atios the Hieromartyrs\; Teilo\, Bishop of Llandaff\n\nEpistle Reading: St . John's First Universal Letter 2:18-29\; 3:1-8 \nBrethren\, it is the la st hour\; and as you have heard that antichrist is coming\, so now many an tichrists have come\; therefore we know that it is the last hour. They wen t out from us\, but they were not of us\; for if they had been of us\, the y would have continued with us\; but they went out\, that it might be plai n that they all are not of us. But you have been anointed by the Holy One\ , and you all know that I write to you\, not because you do not know the t ruth\, but because you know it\, and know that no lie is of the truth. Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antic hrist\, he who denies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son ha s the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also. Let what you h eard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you\, then you will abide in the Son and in the Father. And thi s is what he has promised us\, eternal life.\n\nI write this to you about those who would deceive you\; but the anointing which you received from hi m abides in you\, and you have no need that any one should teach you\; as his anointing teaches you about everything\, and is true\, and is no lie\, just as it has taught you\, abide in him.\n\nAnd now\, little children\, abide in him\, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shri nk from him in shame at his coming. If you know that he is righteous\, you may be sure that every one who does right is born of him.\n\nSee what lov e the Father has given us\, that we should be called children of God\; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not k now him. Beloved\, we are God's children now\; it does not yet appear what we shall be\, but we know that when he appears we shall be like him\, for we shall see him as he is. And every one who thus hopes in him purifies h imself as he is pure.\n\nEvery one who commits sin is guilty of lawlessnes s\; sin is lawlessness. You know that he appeared to take away sins\, and in him there is no sin. No one who abides in him sins\; no one who sins ha s either seen him or known him. Little children\, let no one deceive you. He who does right is righteous\, as he is righteous. He who commits sin is of the devil\; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The reason th e Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.\n\nGospel Rea ding: Mark 11:1-11 \nAt that time\, Jesus drew near to Jerusalem\, to Bet hsphage and Bethany\, at the Mount of Olives\, and he sent two of his disc iples\, and said to them\, "Go into the village opposite you\, and immedia tely as you enter it you will find a colt tied\, on which no one has ever sat\; untie it and bring it. If any one says to you\, 'Why are you doing t his?' say\, 'The Lord has need of it and will send it back here immediatel y.'" And they went away\, and found a colt tied at the door out in the ope n street\; and they untied it. And those who stood there said to them\, "W hat are you doing\, untying the colt?" And they told them what Jesus had s aid\; and they let them go. And they brought the colt to Jesus\, and threw their garments on it\; and he sat upon it. And many spread their garments on the road\, and others spread leafy branches which they had cut from th e fields. And those who went before and those who followed cried out\, "Ho sanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the kin gdom of our father David that is coming! Hosanna in the highest!" And he e ntered Jerusalem\, and went into the temple\; and when he had looked round at everything\, as it was already late\, he went out to Bethany with the twelve disciples.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260209 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260210 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132906 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132908 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Hieromartyr Haralambos DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 02/10/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Hieromartyr Haralambos\; Anastasios\, Patriarch of Jerusalem\; Porphy rios &\; Baptos the Monk-martyrs\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: Luke 21:12-1 9 \nThe Lord said to his disciples\, "Beware of men who will lay their ha nds on you and persecute you\, delivering you up to the synagogues and pri sons\, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name's sa ke. This will be a time for you to bear testimony. Settle it therefore in your minds\, not to meditate beforehand how to answer\; for I will give yo u a mouth and wisdom\, which none of your adversaries will be able to with stand or contradict. You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends\, and some of you they will put to death\; you wi ll be hated by all for my name's sake. But not a hair of your head will pe rish. By your endurance you will gain your lives."\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Second Letter to Timothy 2:1-10 \nTimothy\, my son\, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus\, and what you have heard from me befor e many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier on service gets entangled in civilian pursuits\, since his aim is to satisfy the one who enlisted him. An athlete is not crowned unless he competes acc ording to the rules. It is the hardworking farmer who ought to have the fi rst share of the crops. Think over what I say\, for the Lord will grant yo u understanding in everything.\n\nRemember Jesus Christ\, risen from the d ead\, descended from David\, as preached in my gospel\, the gospel for whi ch I am suffering and wearing fetters like a criminal. But the word of God is not fettered. Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect\ , that they also may obtain salvation in Christ Jesus with its eternal glo ry.\n\nGospel Reading: John 15:17-27\; 16:1-2 \nThe Lord said to his disc iples: "This I command you\, to love one another. If the world hates you\, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world\, the world would love its own\; but because you are not of the world\, but I chose you out of the world\, therefore the world hates you. Remember th e word that I said to you\, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me\, they will persecute you\; if they kept my word\, the y will keep yours also. But all this they will do to you on my account\, b ecause they do not know him who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to t hem\, they would not have sin\; but now they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates me hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the wo rks which no one else did\, they would not have sin\; but now they have se en and hated both me and my Father. It is to fulfill the word that is writ ten in their law\, 'They hated me without a cause.'\n\nBut when the Counse lor comes\, whom I shall send to you from the Father\, even the Spirit of truth\, who proceeds from the Father\, he will bear witness to me\; and yo u also are witnesses\, because you have been with me from the beginning. I have said all this to you to keep you from falling away. They will put yo u out of the synagogues\; indeed\, the hour is coming when whoever kills y ou will think he is offering service to God."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260210 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260211 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132908 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132910 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 Blaise the Hieromartyr of Sebastia DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 02/11/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Blaise the Hieromartyr of Sebastia\; Theodora the Empress\; Finding o f the relics of Zachariah the Prophet\, Father of the Holy Forerunner\; Ge orge the Serbian\n\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\n\nEpistle Reading: St . Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 4:14-16\; 5:1-6 \nBRETHREN\, since we have a high priest who has passed through the heavens\, Jesus\, the Son of God \, let us hold fast our confession. For we have not a high priest who is u nable to sympathize with our weaknesses\, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are\, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence dra w near to the throne of grace\, that we may receive mercy and find grace t o help in time of need. For every high priest chosen from among men is app ointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God\, to offer gifts and sac rifices for sins. He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward\, since he himself is beset with weakness. Because of this he is bound to offer s acrifice for his own sins as well as for those of the people. And one does not take the honor upon himself\, but he is called by God\, just as Aaron was. So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest\, but was appointed by him who said to him\, "Thou art my Son\, today I have beg otten thee"\; as he says also in another place\, "Thou art a priest for ev er\, after the order of Melchizedek."\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 10:1\, 5- 8 \nAt that time\, Jesus called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits\, to cast them out\, and to heal every dis ease and every infirmity. These twelve Jesus sent out\, charging them\, "G o nowhere among the Gentiles\, and enter no town of the Samaritans\, but g o rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And preach as you go\, saying\, 'The kingdom of heaven is at hand.' Heal the sick\, raise the dea d\, cleanse lepers\, cast out demons. You received without paying\, give w ithout pay."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260211 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260212 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132910 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132911 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Meletius\, Archbishop of Antioch DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 02/12/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Meletius\, Archbishop of Antioch\; Antonius\, Archbishop of Constanti nople\; Meletios of Ypseni\; Christos the New Martyr\n\nEpistle Reading: S t. John's First Universal Letter 4:20-21\; 5:1-21 \nBeloved\, if any one says\, "I love God\," and hates his brother\, he is a liar\; for he who do es not love his brother whom he has seen\, cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him\, that he who loves God shoul d love his brother also.\n\nEvery one who believes that Jesus is the Chris t is a child of God\, and every one who loves the parent loves the child. By this we know that we love the children of God\, when we love God and ob ey his commandments. For this is the love of God\, that we keep his comman dments. And his commandments are not burdensome. For whatever is born of G od overcomes the world\; and this is the victory that overcomes the world\ , our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world but he who believes that J esus is the Son of God?\n\nThis is he who came by water and blood\, Jesus Christ\, not with the water only but with the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the witness\, because the Spirit is the truth. There are three witnesses\, the Spirit\, the water\, and the blood\; and these three agree . If we receive the testimony of men\, the testimony of God is greater\; f or this is the testimony of God that he has borne witness to his Son. He w ho believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who does no t believe God has made him a liar\, because he has not believed in the tes timony that God has borne to his Son. And this is the testimony\, that God gave us eternal life\, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son ha s life\; he who has not the Son of God has not life.\n\nI write this to yo u who believe in the name of the Son of God\, that you may know that you h ave eternal life. And this is the confidence which we have in him\, that i f we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that h e hears us in whatever we ask\, we know that we have obtained the requests made of him. If any one sees his brother committing what is not a mortal sin\, he will ask\, and God will give him life for those whose sin is not mortal. There is sin which is mortal\; I do not say that one is to pray fo r that. All wrongdoing is sin\, but there is sin which is not mortal.\n\nW e know that any one born of God does not sin\, but He who was born of God keeps him\, and the evil one does not touch him.\n\nWe know that we are of God\, and the whole world is in the power of the evil one.\n\nAnd we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding\, to know him who is true\; and we are in him who is true\, in his Son Jesus Christ. Th is is the true God and eternal life. Little children\, keep yourselves fro m idols. Amen.\n\nGospel Reading: Mark 15:1-15 \nAt that time\, the chief priests\, with the elders\, and scribes and the whole council held a cons ultation\; and they bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him to Pila te. And Pilate asked him\, "Are you the King of the Jews?" And he answered him\, "You have said so." And the chief priests accused him of many thing s. And Pilate again asked him\, "Have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you." But Jesus made no further answer\, so tha t Pilate wondered. Now at the feast he used to release for them one prison er for whom they asked. And among the rebels in prison\, who had committed murder in the insurrection\, there was a man called Barabbas. And the cro wd came up and began to ask Pilate to do as he was wont to do for them. An d he answered them\, "Do you want me to release for you the King of the Je ws?" For he perceived that it was out of envy that the chief priests had d elivered him up. But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him re lease for them Barabbas instead. And Pilate again said to them\, "Then wha t shall I do with the man whom you call the King of the Jews?" And they cr ied out again\, "Crucify him." And Pilate said to them\, "Why\, what evil has he done?" But they shouted all the more\, "Crucify him." So Pilate\, w ishing to satisfy the crowd\, released for them Barabbas\; and having scou rged Jesus\, he delivered him to be crucified.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260212 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260213 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132911 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132913 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Martinian of Palestine DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 02/13/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Martinian of Palestine\; Apostles Aquila and Priscilla\; Eulogios\, P atriarch of Alexandria\; Symeon the Myrrhbearer of Serbia\n\nStrict Fast\n \nEpistle Reading: St. John's Second Universal Letter 1:1-13 \nThe elder to the elect lady and her children\, whom I love in the truth\, and not on ly I but also all who know the truth\, because of the truth which abides i n us and will be with us for ever:\n\nGrace\, mercy\, and peace will be wi th us\, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father's Son\, in tr uth and love.\n\nI rejoiced greatly to find some of your children followin g the truth\, just as we have been commanded by the Father. And now I beg you\, lady\, not as though I were writing you a new commandment\, but the one we have had from the beginning\, that we love one another. And this is love\, that we follow his commandments\; this is the commandment\, as you have heard from the beginning\, that you follow love. For many deceivers have gone out into the world\, men who will not acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh\; such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist. Look to yourselves\, that you may not lose what you have worked for\, but may win a full reward. Any one who goes ahead and does not abide in the d octrine of Christ does not have God\; he who abides in the doctrine has bo th the Father and the Son. If any one comes to you and does not bring this doctrine\, do not receive him into the house or give him any greeting\; f or he who greets him shares his wicked work.\n\nThough I have much to writ e to you\, I would rather not use paper and ink\, but I hope to come to se e you and talk with you face to face\, so that our joy may be complete.\n\ nThe children of your elect sister greet you. Amen.\n\nGospel Reading: Mar k 15:20\,22\,25\,33-41 \nAt that time\, the soldiers took Jesus and led h im out to be crucified. And they brought him to a place called Golgotha (w hich means the place of a skull). And it was the third hour\, when they cr ucified him. And when the sixth hour had come there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice\, "Eloi\, Eloi\, lama sabachthani?" which means\, "My God\, my God\, why have you forsaken me?" And some of the bystanders hearing it sai d\, "Behold\, he is calling Elijah. " And one ran and\, filling a sponge f ull of vinegar\, put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink\, saying\, " Wait\, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down." And Jesus ut tered a loud cry\, and breathed his last. And the curtain of the temple wa s torn in two\, from top to bottom. And when the centurion\, who stood fac ing him\, saw that he thus cried out and breathed his last\, he said\, "Tr uly this man was the Son of God! There were also women looking on from afa r\, among whom were Mary Magdalene\, and Mary the mother of James the youn ger and of Joses\, and Salome who\, when he was in Galilee\, followed him\ , and ministered to him\; and also many other women who came up with him t o Jerusalem.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260213 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260214 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132913 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132914 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Saturday of Souls DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 02/14/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Saturday of Souls\; Holy Father Auxentius of the Mountain\; Cyril\, E qual-to-the-Apostles &\; Teacher of the Slavs\; Nicholas the New Martyr of Corinth\; Abraham\, Bishop of Carrhes in Mesopotamia\n\nEpistle Readin g: St. Paul's First Letter to the Thessalonians 4:13-17 \nBut we would no t have you ignorant\, brethren\, concerning those who are asleep\, that yo u may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again\, even so\, through Jesus\, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by the word o f the Lord\, that we who are alive\, who are left until the coming of the Lord\, shall not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himsel f will descend from heaven with a cry of command\, with the archangel's ca ll\, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first\; then we who are alive\, who are left\, shall be caught up to gether with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air\; and so we sha ll always be with the Lord.\n\nGospel Reading: Luke 21:8-9\,25-27\,33-36 \nThe Lord said\, "Take heed that you are not led astray\; for many will c ome in my name\, saying\, 'I am he!' and\, 'The time is at hand!' Do not g o after them. And when you hear of wars and tumults\, do not be terrified\ ; for this must first take place\, but the end will not be at once. And th ere will be signs in sun and moon and stars\, and upon the earth distress of nations in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves\, men fai nting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world\; for t he powers of the heavens will be shaken. And then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. Heaven and earth will p ass away\, but my words will not pass away. But take heed to yourselves le st your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of life\, and that day come upon you suddenly like a snare\; for it will c ome upon all who dwell upon the face of the whole earth. But watch at all times\, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that will take place\, and to stand before the Son of man."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260214 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260215 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132914 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2005765762 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Chili Cook Off (Sponsored by Men's Ministry) (Dn. Noah Papas) DESCRIPTION:Who: Dn. Noah Papas\n\n CATEGORIES:Men's Ministry CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260215T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260215T130000 CREATED:20251211T171250Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2005765762 X-TEAMUP-WHO:Dn. Noah Papas END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132915 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Judgment Sunday (Meatfare Sunday) DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 02/15/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Judgment Sunday (Meatfare Sunday)\; Onesimus the Apostle of the 70\; Our Righteous Father Anthimus the Elder of Chios\; Onesimos\, Patriarch of Constantinople\; Eusebius the Righteous of Syria\; Major the Martyr\n\nMa tins Gospel Reading: Mark 16:9-20 \nWhen Jesus rose early on the first da y of the week\, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene\, from whom He had cas t out seven demons. She went and told those who had been with Him\, as the y mourned and wept. But when they heard that He was alive and had been see n by her\, they would not believe it.\n\nAfter this he appeared in another form to two of them\, as they were walking into the country. And they wen t back and told the rest\, but they did not believe them. After this He ap peared to the eleven themselves as they sat at table and He upbraided them for their unbelief and hardness of heart\, because they had not believed those who saw Him after He had risen. And He said to them\, "Go into all t he world and preach the gospel to the whole creation. He who believes and is baptized will be saved\; but he who does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: in My name they will ca st out demons\; they will speak in new tongues\; they will pick up serpent s\, and if they drink any deadly thing\, it will not hurt them\; they will lay their hands on the sick\, and they will recover."\n\nSo then the Lord Jesus\, after He had spoken to them\, was taken up into heaven\, and sat down at the right hand of God. And they went forth and preached everywhere \, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that attended it. Amen.\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 8:8-13\; 9:1-2 \nBrethren\, food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat\, and no better off if we do. Only t ake care lest this liberty of yours somehow become a stumbling block to th e weak. For if any one sees you\, a man of knowledge\, at table in an idol 's temple\, might he not be encouraged\, if his conscience is weak\, to ea t food offered to idols? And so by your knowledge this weak man is destroy ed\, the brother for whom Christ died. Thus\, sinning against your brethre n and wounding their conscience when it is weak\, you sin against Christ. Therefore\, if food is a cause of my brother's falling\, I will never eat meat\, lest I cause my brother to fall.\n\nAm I not free? Am I not an apos tle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lor d? If to others I am not an apostle\, at least I am to you\; for you are t he seal of my apostleship in the Lord.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 25:31-46 \nThe Lord said\, "When the Son of man comes in his glory and all the ho ly angels with him\, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him w ill be gathered all the nations\, and he will separate them one from anoth er as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats\, and he will place th e sheep at his right hand\, but the goats at the left. Then the king will say to those at his right hand\, 'Come\, O blessed of my Father\, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world\; for I was hungry and you gave me food\, I was thirsty and you gave me drink\, I was a stranger and you welcomed me\, I was naked and you clothed me\, I was si ck and you visited me\, I was in prison and you came to me.' Then the righ teous will answer him\, 'Lord\, when did we see you hungry and feed you\, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welc ome you\, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in pris on and visit you?' And the King will answer them\, 'Truly\, I say to you\, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren\, you did it to me .' Then he will say to those at his left hand\, 'Depart from me\, you curs ed\, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels\; for I w as hungry and you gave me no food\, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink \, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me\, naked and you did not clo the me\, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.' Then they also will answer\, 'Lord\, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or n aked or sick or in prison\, and did not minister to you?' Then he will ans wer them\, 'Truly\, I say to you\, as you did it not to one of the least o f these\, you did it not to me.' And they will go away into eternal punish ment\, but the righteous into eternal life."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260215 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260216 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132915 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132916 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🧀 Cheesefare Monday DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 02/16/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Cheesefare Monday\; Pamphilus the Martyr &\; his Companions\; Flav ianos\, Patriarch of Constantinople\; Romanos the Younger\n\nFast Day (Dai ry\, Eggs\, and Fish Allowed)\n\nEpistle Reading: St. John's Third Univers al Letter 1:1-15 \nThe elder to the beloved Gaius\, whom I love in the tr uth.\n\nBeloved\, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in health\; I know that it is well with your soul. For I greatly rejoiced when some of the brethren arrived and testified to the truth of your life \, as indeed you do follow the truth. No greater joy can I have than this\ , to hear that my children follow the truth.\n\nBeloved\, it is a loyal th ing you do when you render any service to the brethren\, especially to str angers\, who have testified to your love before the church. You will do we ll to send them on their journey as befits God's service. For they have se t out for his sake and have accepted nothing from the heathen. So we ought to support such men\, that we may be fellow workers in the truth.\n\nI ha ve written something to the church\; but Diotrephes\, who likes to put him self first\, does not acknowledge my authority. So if I come I will bring up what he is doing\, prating against me with evil words. And not content with that\, he refuses himself to welcome the brethren\, and also stops th ose who want to welcome them and puts them out of the church.\n\nBeloved\, do not imitate evil but imitate good. He who does good is of God\; he who does evil has not seen God. Demetrios has testimony from every one\, and from the truth itself\; I testify to him too\, and you know my testimony i s true.\n\nI had much to write to you\, but I would rather not write with pen and ink\; I hope to see you soon\, and we will talk together face to f ace.\n\nPeace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends\, every one of them.\n\nGospel Reading: Luke 19:29-40\; 22:7-39 \nAt that time\, when Jesus drew near to Bethphage and Bethany\, at the mount that is calle d Olivet\, he sent two of the disciples\, saying\, "Go into the village op posite\, where on entering you will find a colt tied\, on which no one has ever yet sat\; untie it and bring it here. If any one asks you\, 'Why are you untying it?' you shall say this\, 'The Lord has need of it.'" So thos e who were sent went away and found it as he had told them. And as they we re untying the colt\, its owners said to them\, "Why are you untying the c olt?" And they said\, "The Lord has need of it." And they brought it to Je sus\, and throwing their garments on the colt they set Jesus upon it. And as he rode along\, they spread their garments on the road. As he was now d rawing near\, at 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 that they had seen\, saying\, "Blessed is the King who c omes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!" A nd some of the Pharisees in the multitude said to him\, "Teacher\, rebuke your disciples." He answered\, "I tell you\, if these were silent\, the ve ry stones would cry out."\n\nThen came the day of Unleavened Bread\, on wh ich the passover lamb had to be sacrificed. So he sent Peter and John\, sa ying\; "Go and prepare the passover for us\, that we may eat it." They sai d to him\, "Where will you have us prepare it?" He said to them\, "Behold\ , when you have entered the city\, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you\; follow him into the house which he enters\, and tell the householde r\, 'The Teacher says to you\, Where is the guest room\, where I am to eat the passover with my disciples?' And he will show you a large upper room furnished\; there make ready." And they went\, and found it as he had told them\; and they prepared the passover.\n\nAnd when the hour came\, he sat at table\, and the apostles with him. And he said to them\, "I have earne stly desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer\; for I tell yo u I shall never eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God." And he took a cup\, and when he had given thanks he said\, "Take this\, a nd divide it among yourselves\; for I tell you that from now on I shall no t drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes." And he t ook bread\, and when he had given thanks he broke it and gave it to them\, saying\, "This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me." And likewise the cup after supper\, saying\, "This cup which is po ured out for you is the new covenant in my blood. But behold the hand of h im who betrays me is with me on the table. For the Son of man goes as it h as been determined\; but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!" And they began to question one another\, which of them it was that would do this.\ n\nA dispute also arose among them\, which of them was to be regarded as t he greatest. And he said to them\, "The kings of the Gentiles exercise lor dship over them\; and those in authority over them are called benefactors. But not so with you\; rather let the greatest among you become as the you ngest\, and the leader as one who serves. For which is the greater\, one w ho sits at table\, or one who serves? Is it not the one who sits at table? But I am among you as one who serves.\n\nYou are those who have continued with me in my trials\; and I assign to you\, as my Father assigned to me\ , a kingdom\, that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom\, and s it on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.\n\nSimon\, Simon\, beho ld\, Satan demanded to have you\, that he might sift you like wheat\, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail\; and when you have tur ned again\, strengthen your brethren." And he said to him\, "Lord\, I am r eady to go with you to prison and to death." He said\, "I tell you\, Peter \, the cock will not crow this day\, until you three times deny that you k now me."\n\nAnd he said to them\, "When I sent you out with no purse or ba g or sandals\, did you lack anything?" They said\, "Nothing." He said to t hem\, "But now\, let him who has a purse take it\, and likewise a bag. And let him who has no sword sell his mantle and buy one. For I tell you that this scripture must be fulfilled in me\, 'And he was reckoned with transg ressors'\; for what is written about me has its fulfillment." And they sai d\, "Look\, Lord\, here are two swords." And he said to them\, "It is enou gh."\n\nAnd he came out\, and went\, as was his custom\, to the Mount of O lives\; and the disciples followed him.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260216 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260217 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132916 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132917 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🧀 Theodore the Tyro\, Great Martyr DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 02/17/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Theodore the Tyro\, Great Martyr\; Mariamne\, Sister of Apostle Phili p\, and Equal to the Apostles\; Righteous Auxentius\; The Pious Rulers Mar cian and Pulcheria\; Theodore the New Martyr of Byzantium\; Hermogenes (Ge rmogen)\, Patriarch of Moscow\n\nFast Day (Dairy\, Eggs\, and Fish Allowed )\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Second Letter to Timothy 2:1-10 \nTimoth y\, my son\, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus\, and what you have heard from me before many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. Share in suffering as a good soldier of Chr ist Jesus. No soldier on service gets entangled in civilian pursuits\, sin ce his aim is to satisfy the one who enlisted him. An athlete is not crown ed unless he competes according to the rules. It is the hardworking farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops. Think over what I say\, f or the Lord will grant you understanding in everything.\n\nRemember Jesus Christ\, risen from the dead\, descended from David\, as preached in my go spel\, the gospel for which I am suffering and wearing fetters like a crim inal. But the word of God is not fettered. Therefore I endure everything f or the sake of the elect\, that they also may obtain salvation in Christ J esus with its eternal glory.\n\nGospel Reading: Luke 20:46-47\; 21:1-4 \n The Lord said to his disciples\, "Beware of the scribes\, who like to go a bout in long robes\, and love salutations in the market places and the bes t seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts\, who devour w idows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation." He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts i nto the treasury\; and he saw a poor widow put in two copper coins. And he said\, "Truly\, I tell you\, this poor widow has put in more than all of them\; for they all contributed out of their abundance\, but she out of he r poverty put in all the living that she had." Having said this\, he procl aimed\, "He who has ears let him hear."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260217 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260218 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132917 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132918 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🧀 Leo the Great\, Pope of Rome DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 02/18/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Leo the Great\, Pope of Rome\; Agapetus the Confessor\, Bishop of Sin ai\; Flavian the Confessor\, Patriarch of Constantinople\n\nFast Day (Dair y\, Eggs\, and Fish Allowed)\n\nOld Testament Reading: Joel 3:12-21 \nLet the nations bestir themselves\, and come up to the valley of Jehosh'aphat \; for there I will sit to judge all the nations round about.\n\nPut in th e sickle\, for the harvest is ripe. Go in\, tread\, for the wine press is full. The vats overflow\, for their wickedness is great.\n\nMultitudes\, m ultitudes\, in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. The sun and the moon are darkened\, and the stars withdraw their shining.\n\nAnd the Lord roars from Zion\, and utters his v oice from Jerusalem\, and the heavens and the earth shake. But the Lord is a refuge to his people\, a stronghold to the people of Israel.\n\n"So you shall know that I am the Lord your God\, who dwell in Zion\, my holy moun tain. And Jerusalem shall be holy and strangers shall never again pass thr ough it.\n\n"And in that day the mountains shall drip sweet wine\, and the hills shall flow with milk\, and all the stream beds of Judah shall flow with water\; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord an d water the valley of Shittim.\n\n"Egypt shall become a desolation and Edo m a desolate wilderness\, for the violence done to the people of Judah\, b ecause they have shed innocent blood in their land. But Judah shall be inh abited for ever\, and Jerusalem to all generations. I will avenge their bl ood\, and I will not clear the guilty\, for the Lord dwells in Zion."\n\nO ld Testament Reading: Joel 2:12-26 \n"Yet even now\," says the Lord\, "re turn to me with all your heart\, with fasting\, with weeping\, and with mo urning\; and rend your hearts and not your garments." Return to the Lord\, your God\, for he is gracious and merciful\, slow to anger\, and aboundin g in steadfast love\, and repents of evil. Who knows whether he will not t urn and repent\, and leave a blessing behind him\, a cereal offering and a drink offering for the Lord\, your God?\n\nBlow the trumpet in Zion\; san ctify a fast\; call a solemn assembly\; gather the people. Sanctify the co ngregation\; assemble the elders\; gather the children\, even nursing infa nts. Let the bridegroom leave his room\, and the bride her chamber.\n\nBet ween the vestibule and the altar let the priests\, the ministers of the Lo rd\, weep and say\, "Spare thy people\, O Lord\, and make not thy heritage a reproach\, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the pe oples\, 'Where is their God?'"\n\nThen the Lord became jealous for his lan d\, and had pity on his people. The Lord answered and said to his people\, "Behold\, I am sending to you grain\, wine\, and oil\, and you will be sa tisfied\; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.\n\n"I will remove the northerner far from you\, and drive him into a parched and desolate land\, his front into the eastern sea\, and his rear into the we stern sea\; the stench and foul smell of him will rise\, for he has done g reat things.\n\n"Fear not\, O land\; be glad and rejoice\, for the Lord ha s done great things! Fear not\, you beasts of the field\, for the pastures of the wilderness are green\; the tree bears its fruit\, the fig tree and vine give their full yield.\n\n"Be glad\, O sons of Zion\, and rejoice in the Lord\, your God\; for he has given the early rain for your vindicatio n\, he has poured down for you abundant rain\, the early and the latter ra in\, as before.\n\n"The threshing floors shall be full of grain\, the vats shall overflow with wine and oil. I will restore to you the years which t he swarming locust has eaten\, the hopper\, the destroyer\, and the cutter \, my great army\, which I sent among you.\n\n"You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied\, and praise the name of the Lord your God\, who has dealt w ondrously with you. And my people shall never again be put to shame."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260218 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260219 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132918 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132919 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🧀 The Holy Apostles of the Seventy Philemon\, Apphia\, Archippus \, and Onesimus DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 02/19/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: The Holy Apostles of the Seventy Philemon\, Apphia\, Archippus\, and Onesimus\; Philothei the Righteous Martyr of Athens\; Niketas the Younger\ n\nFast Day (Dairy\, Eggs\, and Fish Allowed)\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Jude 's First Universal Letter 1:11-25 \nBeloved\, woe to the ungodly\, for th ey walk in the way of Cain\, and abandon themselves for the sake of gain t o Balaam's error\, and perish in Korah's rebellion. These are blemishes on your love feasts\, as they boldly carouse together\, looking after themse lves\; waterless clouds\, carried along by winds\; fruitless trees in late autumn\, twice dead\, uprooted\; wild waves of the sea\, casting up the f oam of their own shame\; wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of dark ness has been reserved for ever.\n\nIt was of these also that Enoch in the seventh generation from Adam prophesied\, saying\, "Behold\, the Lord cam e with his holy myriads\, to execute judgment on all\, and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have committed in such an ungodly way\, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners h ave spoken against him." These are grumblers\, malcontents\, following the ir own passions\, loud-mouthed boasters\, flattering people to gain advant age.\n\nBut you must remember\, beloved\, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ\; they said to you\, "In the last time there will be scoffers\, following their own ungodly passions." It is these who set up divisions\, worldly people\, devoid of the Spirit. But you\, beloved\, build yourselves up on your most holy faith\; pray in the Holy Spirit\; ke ep yourselves in the love of God\; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Ch rist unto eternal life. And convince some\, who doubt\; save some\, by sna tching them out of the fire\; on some have mercy with fear\, hating even t he garment spotted by the flesh.\n\nNow to him who is able to keep you fro m falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of his gl ory with rejoicing\, to the only God\, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord\, be glory\, majesty\, dominion\, and authority\, before all time an d now and for ever. Amen.\n\nGospel Reading: Luke 23:1-31\, 33\, 44-56 \n At that time\, the chief priests\, the scribes\, and elders of the people brought Jesus before Pilate. And they began to accuse him\, saying\, "We f ound this man perverting our nation\, and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar\, and saying that he himself is Christ a king." And Pilate asked h im\, "Are you the King of the Jews?" And he answered him\, "You have said so." And Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes\, "I find no crime in this man." But they were urgent\, saying\, "He stirs up the peopl e\, teaching throughout all Judea\, from Galilee even to this place."\n\nW hen Pilate heard this\, he asked whether the man was a Galilean. And when he learned that he belonged to Herod's jurisdiction\, he sent him over to Herod\, who was himself in Jerusalem at that time. When Herod saw Jesus\, he was very glad\, for he had long desired to see him\, because he had hea rd about him\, and he was hoping to see some sign done by him. So he quest ioned him at some length\; but he made no answer. The chief priests and th e scribes stood by\, vehemently accusing him. And Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him\; then\, arraying him in gorgeous apparel\, he sent him back to Pilate. And Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day\, for before this they had been at enmity w ith each other.\n\nPilate then called together the chief priests and the r ulers and the people\, and said to them\, "You brought me this man as one who was perverting the people\; and after examining him before you\, behol d\, I did not find this man guilty of any of your charges against him\; ne ither did Herod\, for he sent him back to us. Behold\, nothing deserving d eath has been done by him\; I will therefore chastise him and release him. " Now he was obliged to release one man to them at the festival.\n\nBut th ey all cried out together\, "Away with this man\, and release to us Barabb as" -- a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started i n the city\, and for murder. Pilate addressed them once more\, desiring to release Jesus\; but they shouted out\, "Crucify\, crucify him!" A third t ime he said to them\, "Why\, what evil has he done? I have found in him no crime deserving death\; I will therefore chastise him and release him." B ut they were urgent\, demanding with loud cries that he should be crucifie d. And their voices prevailed. So Pilate gave sentence that their demand s hould be granted. He released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder\, whom they asked for\; but Jesus he delivered up to their will.\n\nAnd as they led him away\, they seized one Simon of Cyre ne\, who was coming in from the country\, and laid on him the cross\, to c arry it behind Jesus. And there followed him a great multitude of the peop le\, and of women who bewailed and lamented him. But Jesus turning to them said\, "Daughters of Jerusalem\, do not weep for me\, but weep for yourse lves and for your children. For behold\, the days are coming when they wil l say\, 'Blessed are the barren\, and the wombs that never bore\, and the breasts that never gave suck!' Then they will begin to say to the mountain s\, 'Fall on us'\; and to the hills\, 'Cover us.' For if they do this when the wood is green\, what will happen when it is dry?"\n\nAnd when they ca me to the place which is called The Skull\, there they crucified him\, and the criminals\, one on the right and one on the left.\n\nIt was now about the sixth hour\, and there was darkness over the whole land until the nin th hour\, while the sun's light failed\; and the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Then Jesus\, crying with a loud voice\, said\, "Father\, int o your hands I commit my spirit!" And having said this he breathed his las t. Now when the centurion saw what had taken place\, he praised God\, and said\, "Certainly this man was innocent!" And all the multitudes who assem bled to see the sight\, when they saw what had taken place\, returned home beating their breasts. And all his acquaintances and the women who had fo llowed him from Galilee stood at a distance and saw these things.\n\nNow t here was a man named Joseph from the Jewish town of Arimathea. He was a me mber of the council\, a good and righteous man\, who had not consented to their purpose and deed\, and he was looking for the kingdom of God. This m an went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then he took it down an d wrapped it in a linen shroud\, and laid him in a rock hewn tomb\, where no one had ever yet been laid. It was the day of Preparation\, and the sab bath was beginning. The women who had come with him from Galilee followed\ , and saw the tomb\, and how his body was laid\; then they returned\, and prepared spices and ointments.\n\nOn the sabbath they rested according to the commandment.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260219 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260220 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132919 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132920 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🧀 Leo\, Bishop of Catania DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 02/20/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Leo\, Bishop of Catania\; Agathus\, Pope of Rome\; Bessarion the Grea t\; Sadok the Bishop and the 128 other Martyrs of Persia\; Plotinus\n\nFas t Day (Dairy\, Eggs\, and Fish Allowed)\n\nOld Testament Reading: Zecharia h 8:7-17 \n"Thus says the Lord of hosts: Behold\, I will save my people f rom the east country and from the west country\; and I will bring them to dwell in the midst of Jerusalem\; and they shall be my people and I will b e their God\, in faithfulness and in righteousness."\n\nThus says the Lord of hosts: "Let your hands be strong\, you who in these days have been hea ring these words from the mouth of the prophets\, since the day that the f oundation of the house of the Lord of hosts was laid\, that the temple mig ht be built. For before those days there was no wage for man or any wage f or beast\, neither was there any safety from the foe for him who went out or came in\; for I set every man against his fellow. But now I will not de al with the remnant of this people as in the former days\, says the Lord o f hosts. For there shall be a sowing of peace\; the vine shall yield its f ruit\, and the ground shall give its increase\, and the heavens shall give their dew\; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all th ese things. And as you have been a byword of cursing among the nations\, O house of Judah and house of Israel\, so will I save you and you shall be a blessing. Fear not\, but let your hands be strong."\n\nFor thus says the Lord of hosts: "As I purposed to do evil to you\, when your fathers provo ked me to wrath\, and I did not relent\, says the Lord of hosts\, so again have I purposed in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah\; fear not. These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another\, render in your gates judgments that are true and make fo r peace\, do not devise evil in your hearts against one another\, and love no false oath\, for all these things I hate\, says the Lord."\n\nOld Test ament Reading: Zechariah 8:19-23 \n"Thus says the Lord of hosts: The fast of the fourth month\, and the fast of the fifth\, and the fast of the sev enth\, and the fast of the tenth\, shall be to the house of Judah seasons of joy and gladness\, and cheerful feasts\; therefore love truth and peace .\n\n"Thus says the Lord of hosts: Peoples shall yet come\, even the inhab itants of many cities\; the inhabitants of one city shall go to another\, saying\, 'Let us go at once to entreat the favor of the Lord\, and to seek the Lord of hosts\; I am going.' Many peoples and strong nations shall co me to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem\, and to entreat the favor of th e Lord. Thus says the Lord of hosts: In those days ten men from the nation s of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew\, saying\, 'Let us go with you\, for we have heard that God is with you.'"\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260220 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260221 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132920 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132921 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🧀 Cheesefare Saturday DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 02/21/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Cheesefare Saturday\; Timothy the Righteous\; John III\, Patriarch of Constantinople\; Eustathius\, Bishop of Antioch\; Zachariah\, Patriarch o f Jerusalem\n\nFast Day (Dairy\, Eggs\, and Fish Allowed)\n\nEpistle Readi ng: St. Paul's Letter to the Galatians 5:22-26\; 6:1-2 \nBrethren\, the f ruit of the Spirit is love\, joy\, peace\, patience\, kindness\, goodness\ , faithfulness\, gentleness\, self-control\; against such there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its pa ssions and desires. If we live by the Spirit\, let us also walk by the Spi rit. Let us have no self-conceit\, no provoking of one another\, no envy o f one another. Brethren\, if a man is overtaken in any trespass\, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Look to yourse lf\, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another's burdens\, and so fulfill the law of Christ.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 6:1-13 \nThe Lord said\, "B eware of practicing your piety before men in order to be seen by them\; fo r then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.\n\n"Thus \, when you give alms\, sound no trumpet before you\, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets\, that they may be praised by men. T ruly\, I say to you\, they have received their reward. But when you give a lms\, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing\, so th at your alms may be in secret\; and your Father who sees in secret will re ward you.\n\n"And when you pray\, you must not be like the hypocrites\; fo r they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners\ , that they may be seen by men. Truly\, I say to you\, they have received their reward. But when you pray\, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret\; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.\n\n"And in praying do not heap up empty phrases as the Ge ntiles do\; for they think they will be heard for their many words. Do not be like them\, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. Pr ay then like this:\n\nOur Father who are in heaven\, \nHallowed be your n ame\, \nYour kingdom come\, \nYour will be done\, \nOn earth as it is i n heaven. \nGive us this day our daily bread\, \nAnd forgive us our debt s\, \nAs we also have forgiven our debtors\; \nAnd lead us not into temp tation\, \nBut deliver us from evil. \nFor yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory\, for ever. \nAmen."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260221 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260222 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132921 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2033010006 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Forgiveness Sunday Talk (Beth Ann Papas) DESCRIPTION:Who: Beth Ann Papas\n\n CATEGORIES:Children's Ministry CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260222T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260222T130000 CREATED:20260128T201942Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2033010006 X-TEAMUP-WHO:Beth Ann Papas END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132922 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🧀 Forgiveness Sunday DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 02/22/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Forgiveness Sunday\; The Finding of the Precious Relics of the Holy M artyrs in the Quarter of Eugenius\; Our Righteous Fathers Thalassius and B aradatus\; Anthousa the Martyr &\; her 12 Servants\n\nFast Day (Dairy\, Eggs\, and Fish Allowed)\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: Luke 24:1-12 \nOn the first day of the week at early dawn\, the women went to the tomb\, taking spices\, which they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away fr om the tomb\, but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were perplexed about this\, behold\, two men stood by t hem in dazzling apparel\; and as they were frightened and bowed their face s to the ground\, the men said to them\, "Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here\, but has risen. Remember how He told you\, whil e He was still in Galilee\, that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men\, and be crucified\, and on the third day rise." And they remembered His words and returning from the tomb they told all this t o the eleven and to all the rest. Now it was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them who told this to t he Apostles\; but these words seemed to them an idle tale\, and they did n ot believe them. But Peter rose and ran to the tomb\; stooping and looking in\, he saw the linen cloths by themselves\; and he went home wondering a t what had happened.\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 1 3:11-14\; 14:1-4 \nBrethren\, salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed\; the night is far gone\, the day is at hand. Let us then c ast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light\; let us condu ct ourselves becomingly as in the day\, not in reveling and drunkenness\, not in debauchery and licentiousness\, not in quarreling and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ\, and make no provision for the flesh\, to g ratify its desires.\n\nAs for the man who is weak in faith\, welcome him\, but not for disputes over opinions. One believes he may eat anything\, wh ile the weak man eats only vegetables. Let not him who eats despise him wh o abstains\, and let not him who abstains pass judgment on him who eats\; for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of a nother? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will b e upheld\, for God is able to make him stand.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 6 :14-21 \nThe Lord said\, "If you forgive men their trespasses\, your heav enly Father also will forgive you\; but if you do not forgive men their tr espasses\, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.\n\n"And when you fast\, do not look dismal\, like the hypocrites\, for they disfigure t heir faces that their fasting may be seen by men. Truly\, I say to you\, t hey have received their reward. But when you fast\, anoint your head and w ash your face\, that your fasting may not be seen by men but by your Fathe r who is in secret\; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.\n \n"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth\, where moth and rust c onsume and where thieves break in and steal\, but lay up for yourselves tr easures in heaven\, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is\, there will your h eart be also."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260222 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260223 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132922 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132923 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Polycarp the Holy Martyr & Bishop of Smyrna DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 02/23/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Polycarp the Holy Martyr &\; Bishop of Smyrna\; Proterios\, Archbi shop of Alexandria\; Gorgonia the Righteous\, sister of Gregory the Theolo gian\; Damian the New Martyr of Mount Athos\; Boswell\, Abbot of Melrose A bbey\n\nStrict Fast\n\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 1:1-20 \nThe vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz\, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzzi'ah\, Jotham\, Ahaz\, and Hezeki'ah\, kings of Judah. Hea r\, O heavens\, and give ear\, O earth\; for the Lord has spoken: "Sons ha ve I reared and brought up\, but they have rebelled against me. The ox kno ws its owner\, and the ass its master's crib\; but Israel does not know\, my people does not understand."\n\nAh\, sinful nation\, a people laden wit h iniquity\, offspring of evildoers\, sons who deal corruptly! They have f orsaken the Lord\, they have despised the Holy One of Israel\, they are ut terly estranged.\n\nWhy will you still be smitten\, that you continue to r ebel? The whole head is sick\, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even to the head\, there is no soundness in it\, but bruises and sores and bleeding wounds\; they are not pressed out\, or bound up\, or s oftened with oil.\n\nYour country lies desolate\, your cities are burned w ith fire\; in your very presence aliens devour your land\; it is desolate\ , as overthrown by aliens. And the daughter of Zion is left like a booth i n a vineyard\, like a lodge in a cucumber field\, like a besieged city.\n\ nIf the Lord of hosts had not left us a few survivors\, we should have bee n like Sodom\, and become like Gomor'rah.\n\nHear the word of the Lord\, y ou rulers of Sodom! Give ear to the teaching of our God\, you people of Go mor'rah! "What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord\; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts\; I do not delight in the blood of bulls\, or of lambs\, or of he-goats.\n\n" When you come to appear before me\, who requires of you this trampling of my courts? Bring no more vain offerings\; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and sabbath and the calling of assemblies -- I cannot endure ini quity and solemn assembly. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my sou l hates\; they have become a burden to me\, I am weary of bearing them. Wh en you spread forth your hands\, I will hide my eyes from you\; even thoug h you make many prayers\, I will not listen\; your hands are full of blood . Wash yourselves\; make yourselves clean\; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes\; cease to do evil\, learn to do good\; seek justice\ , correct oppression\; defend the fatherless\, plead for the widow.\n\n"Co me now\, let us reason together\, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet\, they shall be as white as snow\; though they are red like crims on\, they shall become like wool. If you are willing and obedient\, you sh all eat the good of the land\; But if you refuse and rebel\, you shall be devoured by the sword\; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken."\n\nOld Test ament Reading: Genesis 1:1-13 \nIn the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void\, and darkness was upon the face of the deep\; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters.\n\nAnd God said\, "Let there be light"\; and there was light. And God saw that the light was good\; and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day\, and the darkness he called Night. An d there was evening and there was morning\, one day.\n\nAnd God said\, "Le t there be a firmament in the midst of the waters\, and let it separate th e waters from the waters." And God made the firmament and separated the wa ters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the f irmament. And it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And there wa s evening and there was morning\, a second day.\n\nAnd God said\, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place\, and let th e dry land appear." And it was so. God called the dry land Earth\, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it wa s good. And God said\, "Let the earth put forth vegetation\, plants yieldi ng seed\, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed\, each acco rding to its kind\, upon the earth." And it was so. The earth brought fort h vegetation\, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds\, and tre es bearing fruit in which is their seed\, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning\, a third day.\n\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 1:1-20 \nThe proverbs of So lomon\, son of David\, king of Israel:\n\nThat men may know wisdom and ins truction\, understand words of insight\, receive instruction in wise deali ng\, righteousness\, justice\, and equity\; that prudence may be given to the simple\, knowledge and discretion to the youth -- the wise man also ma y hear and increase in learning\, and the man of understanding acquire ski ll\, to understand a proverb and a figure\, the words of the wise and thei r riddles. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge\; fools desp ise wisdom and instruction.\n\nHear\, my son\, your father's instruction\, and reject not your mother's teaching\; for they are a fair garland for y our head\, and pendants for your neck. My son\, if sinners entice you\, do not consent. If they say\, "Come with us\, let us lie in wait for blood\, let us wantonly ambush the innocent\; like Sheol let us swallow them aliv e and whole\, like those who go down to the Pit\; we shall find all precio us goods\, we shall fill our houses with spoil\; throw in your lot among u s\, we will all have one purse" -- my son\, do not walk in the way with th em\, hold back your foot from their paths\; for their feet run to evil\, a nd they make haste to shed blood. For in vain is a net spread in the sight of any bird\; but these men lie in wait for their own blood\, they set an ambush for their own lives. Such are the ways of all who get gain by viol ence\; it takes away the life of its possessors.\n\nWisdom cries aloud in the street\; in the markets she raises her voice.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260223 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260224 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132923 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132924 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 First & Second Finding of the Venerable Head of John the Bapti st DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 02/24/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: First &\; Second Finding of the Venerable Head of John the Baptist \; Romanos\, Prince of Uglich\; Boswell\, Abbot of Melrose Abbey\; Cumine the White\, Abbot of Iona\n\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\n\nMatins Gos pel Reading: Luke 7:17-30 \nAt that time\, the report concerning Jesus sp read through the whole of Judea and all the surrounding country. The disci ples of John told him of all these things. And John\, calling to him two o f his disciples\, sent them to the Lord\, saying\, "Are you he who is to c ome\, or shall we look for another?" And when the men had come to him\, th ey said\, "John the Baptist has sent us to you\, saying\, 'Are you he who is to come\, or shall we look for another?'" In that hour he cured many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits\, and on many that were blind he be stowed sight. And he answered them\, "Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight\, the lame walk\, lepers are clea nsed\, and the deaf hear\, the dead are raised up\, the poor have good new s preached to them. And blessed is he who takes no offense at me."\n\nWhen the messengers of John had gone\, he began to speak to the crowds concern ing John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to behold? A reed shake n by the wind? What then did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft clot hing? Behold\, those who are gorgeously appareled and live in luxury are i n kings' courts. What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes\, I tell you\, and more than a prophet. This is he of whom it is written\, 'Behold\ , I send my messenger before your face\, who shall prepare your way before you.' I tell you\, among those born of women none is greater than John\; yet he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he." When they h eard this all the people and the tax collectors justified God\, having bee n baptized with the baptism of John\; but the Pharisees and the lawyers re jected the purpose of God for themselves\, not having been baptized by him .\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 4:6-15 \nBrethren\, it is the God who said\, "Let light shine out of darkness\," who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glor y of God in the face of Christ.\n\nBut we have this treasure in earthen ve ssels\, to show that the transcendent power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way\, but not crushed\; perplexed\, but not driv en to despair\; persecuted\, but not forsaken\; struck down\, but not dest royed\; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus\, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For while we live we are al ways being given up to death for Jesus' sake\, so that the life of Jesus m ay be manifested in our mortal flesh. So death is at work in us\, but life in you.\n\nSince we have the same spirit of faith as he had who wrote\, " I believed\, and so I spoke\," we too believe\, and so we speak\, knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence. For it is all for your sake\, so that as gr ace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving\, to the glory of God.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 11:2-15 \nAt that time\, when Jo hn heard in prison about the deeds of the Christ\, he sent word by his dis ciples and said to him\, "Are you he who is to come\, or shall we look for another?" And Jesus answered them\, "Go and tell John what you hear and s ee: the blind receive their sight and the lame walk\, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear\, and the dead are raised up\, and the poor have good ne ws preached to them. And blessed is he who takes no offense at me." As the y went away\, Jesus began to speak to the crowds concerning John: "What di d you go out into the wilderness to behold? A reed shaken by the wind? Wha t then did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold\, thos e who wear soft raiment are in kings' houses. What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes\, I tell you\, and more than a prophet. This is he of whom it is written\, 'Behold\, I send my messenger before your face\, who shall prepare your way before you.' Truly\, I say to you\, among those bor n of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist\; yet he w ho is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has been coming violently and men of violence take it by force. For all the prophets and the law pr ophesied until John\; and if you are willing to accept it\, he is Elijah w ho is to come. He who has ears to hear\, let him hear."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260224 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260225 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132924 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132925 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Tarasius\, Patriarch of Constantinople DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 02/25/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Tarasius\, Patriarch of Constantinople\; Reginos\, Bishop of Skopelos \; Holy Martyr Alexander of Thrace\; Markellos\, Bishop of Apamea\n\nStric t Fast\n\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 2:3-11 \nThus say the people: "Co me\, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord\, to the house of the God of Jacob\; that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law\, and the word of the Lord from Je rusalem. He shall judge between the nations\, and shall decide for many pe oples\; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares\, and their spear s into pruning hooks\; nation shall not lift up sword against nation\, nei ther shall they learn war any more.\n\nO house of Jacob\, come\, let us wa lk in the light of the Lord.\n\nFor thou hast rejected thy people\, the ho use of Jacob\, because they are full of diviners from the east and of soot hsayers like the Philistines\, and they strike hands with foreigners. Thei r land is filled with silver and gold\, and there is no end to their treas ures\; their land is filled with horses\, and there is no end to their cha riots. Their land is filled with idols\; they bow down to the work of thei r hands\, to what their own fingers have made. So man is humbled\, and men are brought low -- forgive them not! Enter into the rock\, and hide in th e dust from before the terror of the Lord\, and from the glory of his maje sty. The haughty looks of man shall be brought low\, and the pride of men shall be humbled\; and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.\n\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 1:24-2:3 \nAnd God said\, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: cattle and creeping thin gs and beasts of the earth according to their kinds." And it was so. And G od made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the cattle ac cording to their kinds\, and everything that creeps upon the ground accord ing to its kind. And God saw that it was good.\n\nThen God said\, "Let us make man in our image\, after our likeness\; and let them have dominion ov er the fish of the sea\, and over the birds of the air\, and over the catt le\, and over all the earth\, and over every creeping thing that creeps up on the earth." So God created man in his own image\, in the image of God h e created him\; male and female he created them. And God blessed them\, an d God said to them\, "Be fruitful and multiply\, and fill the earth and su bdue it\; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth." And God s aid\, "Behold\, I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon t he face of all the earth\, and every tree with seed in its fruit\; you sha ll have them for food. And to every beast of the earth\, and to every bird of the air\, and to everything that creeps on the earth\, everything that has the breath of life\, I have given every green plant for food." And it was so. And God saw everything that he had made\, and behold\, it was ver y good. And there was evening and there was morning\, a sixth day.\n\nThus the heavens and the earth were finished\, and all the host of them. And o n the seventh day God finished his work which he had done\, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it\, because on it God rested from all his work which he had done in creation.\n\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 2:1-22 \nMy son\, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with yo u\, making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to unders tanding\; yes\, if you cry out for insight and raise your voice for unders tanding\, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treas ures\; then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledg e of God. For the Lord gives wisdom\; from his mouth come knowledge and un derstanding\; he stores up sound wisdom for the upright\; he is a shield t o those who walk in integrity\, guarding the paths of justice and preservi ng the way of his saints. Then you will understand righteousness and justi ce and equity\, every good path\; for wisdom will come into your heart\, a nd knowledge will be pleasant to your soul\; discretion will watch over yo u\; understanding will guard you\; delivering you from the way of evil\, f rom men of perverted speech\, who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness\, who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the pe rverseness of evil\; men whose paths are crooked\, and who are devious in their ways.\n\nYou will be saved from the loose woman\, from the adventure ss with her smooth words\, who forsakes the companion of her youth and for gets the covenant of her God\; for her house sinks down to death\, and her paths to the shades\; none who go to her come back nor do they regain the paths of life.\n\nSo you will walk in the way of good men and keep to the paths of the righteous. For the upright will inhabit the land\, and men o f integrity will remain in it\; but the wicked will be cut off from the la nd\, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260225 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260226 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132925 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132926 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Porphyrius\, Bishop of Gaza DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 02/26/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Porphyrius\, Bishop of Gaza\; The Holy Great Martyr Photine\, the Sam aritan Woman\; Holy Martyr Theocletus\; John Claphas the new Martyr\n\nStr ict Fast\n\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 2:11-21 \nThe haughty looks of man shall be brought low\, and the pride of men shall be humbled\; and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.\n\nFor the Lord of hosts has a da y against all that is proud and lofty\, against all that is lifted up and high\; against all the cedars of Lebanon\, lofty and lifted up\; and again st all the oaks of Bashan\; against all the high mountains\, and against a ll the lofty hills\; against every high tower\, and against every fortifie d wall\; against all the ships of Tarshish\, and against all the beautiful craft. And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled\, and the pride of men shall be brought low\; and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day. An d the idols shall utterly pass away. And men shall enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground\, from before the terror of the Lord\, a nd from the glory of his majesty\, when he rises to terrify the earth.\n\n In that day men will cast forth their idols of silver and their idols of g old\, which they made for themselves to worship\, to the moles and to the bats\, to enter the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs\, fr om before the terror of the Lord\, and from the glory of his majesty\, whe n he rises to terrify the earth.\n\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 2:4-19 \nThese are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were c reated.\n\nIn the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens\, w hen no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field ha d yet sprung up -- for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the ear th\, and there was no man to till the ground\; but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground -- then the Lord God forme d man of dust from the ground\, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life\; and man became a living being. And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden\, in the east\; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground the Lord God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food\, the tree of life also in the midst of the g arden\, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.\n\nA river flowed out of Eden to water the garden\, and there it divided and became four riv ers. The name of the first is Pishon\; it is the one which flows around th e whole land of Hav'ilah\, where there is gold\; and the gold of that land is good\; bdellium and onyx stone are there. The name of the second river is Gihon\; it is the one which flows around the whole land of Cush. And t he name of the third river is Tigris\, which flows east of Assyria. And th e fourth river is the Euphra'tes.\n\nThe Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man\, saying\, "You may freely eat of every tree of the garden\; but o f the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat\, for in th e day that you eat of it you shall die."\n\nThen the Lord God said\, "It i s not good that the man should be alone\; I will make him a helper fit for him." So out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field a nd every bird of the air\, and brought them to the man to see what he woul d call them\; and whatever the man called every living creature\, that was its name.\n\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 3:1-18 \nMy son\, do not fo rget my teaching\, but let your heart keep my commandments\; for length of days and years of life and abundant welfare will they give you.\n\nLet no t loyalty and faithfulness forsake you\; bind them about your neck\, write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good repute in the sight of God and man.\n\nTrust in the Lord with all your heart\, an d do not rely on your own insight. In all your ways acknowledge him\, and he will make straight your paths. Be not wise in your own eyes\; fear the Lord\, and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your flesh and refre shment to your bones.\n\nHonor the Lord with your substance and with the f irst fruits of all your produce\; then your barns will be filled with plen ty\, and your vats will be bursting with wine.\n\nMy son\, do not despise the Lord's discipline or be weary of his reproof\, for the Lord reproves h im whom he loves\, as a father the son in whom he delights.\n\nHappy is th e man who finds wisdom\, and the man who gets understanding\, for the gain from it is better than gain from silver and its profit better than gold. She is more precious than jewels\, and nothing you desire can compare with her. Long life is in her right hand\; in her left hand are riches and hon or. Her ways are ways of pleasantness\, and all her paths are peace. She i s a tree of life to those who lay hold of her\; those who hold her fast ar e called happy.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260226 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260227 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132926 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132927 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Procopius the Confessor of Decapolis DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 02/27/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Procopius the Confessor of Decapolis\; Ephraim of Katounakia\; Raphae l of Brooklyn\; Stephen the Monk\; Gelasios the Actor and Martyr of Heliop olis\; Nesios the Martyr\n\nStrict Fast\n\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 3 :1-14 \nFor\, behold\, the Lord\, the Lord of hosts\, is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff\, the whole stay of bread\, and t he whole stay of water\; the mighty man and the soldier\, the judge and th e prophet\, the diviner and the elder\, the captain of fifty and the man o f rank\, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms. And I will make boys their princes\, and babes shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one another\, every man his fellow and every man h is neighbor\; the youth will be insolent to the elder\, and the base fello w to the honorable.\n\nWhen a man takes hold of his brother in the house o f his father\, saying: "You have a mantle\; you shall be our leader\, and this heap of ruins shall be under your rule"\; in that day he will speak o ut\, saying: "I will not be a healer\; in my house there is neither bread nor mantle\; you shall not make me leader of the people." For Jerusalem ha s stumbled\, and Judah has fallen\; because their speech and their deeds a re against the Lord\, defying his glorious presence.\n\nTheir partiality w itnesses against them\; they proclaim their sin like Sodom\, they do not h ide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil upon themselves. Tell the righteous that it shall be well with them\, for they shall eat the fruit o f their deeds. Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him\, for what his hands have done shall be done to him. My people -- children are their oppr essors\, and women rule over them. O my people\, your leaders mislead you\ , and confuse the course of your paths.\n\nThe Lord has taken his place to contend\, he stands to judge his people. The Lord enters into judgment wi th the elders and princes of his people: "It is you who have devoured the vineyard\, the spoil of the poor is in your houses."\n\nOld Testament Read ing: Genesis 2:20-3:20 \nThe man gave names to all cattle\, and to the bi rds of the air\, and to every beast of the field\; but for the man there w as not found a helper fit for him. So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man\, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh\; and the rib which the Lord God had taken from the m an he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said\, "T his at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh\; she shall be calle d Woman\, because she was taken out of Man." Therefore a man leaves his fa ther and his mother and cleaves to his wife\, and they become one flesh. A nd the man and his wife were both naked\, and were not ashamed.\n\nNow the serpent was more subtle than any other wild creature that the Lord God ha d made. He said to the woman\, "Did God say\, 'You shall not eat of any tr ee of the garden'?" And the woman said to the serpent\, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden\; but God said\, 'You shall not eat of t he fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden\, neither shall y ou touch it\, lest you die.'" But the serpent said to the woman\, "You wil l not die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened\ , and you will be like God\, knowing good and evil." So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food\, and that it was a delight to the eyes\, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise\, she took of its fr uit and ate\; and she also gave some to her husband\, and he ate. Then the eyes of both were opened\, and they knew that they were naked\; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.\n\nAnd they heard th e sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day\, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amo ng the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man\, and said to him\, "Where are you?" And he said\, "I heard the sound of thee in the garden\, and I was afraid\, because I was naked\; and I hid myself." He sa id\, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of whic h I commanded you not to eat?" The man said\, "The woman whom thou gavest to be with me\, she gave me fruit of the tree\, and I ate." Then the Lord God said to the woman\, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said\ , "The serpent beguiled me\, and I ate." The Lord God said to the serpent\ , "Because you have done this\, cursed are you above all cattle\, and abov e all wild animals\; upon your belly you shall go\, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the woman\, and between your seed and her seed\; he shall bruise your head\, and you s hall bruise his heel." To the woman he said\, "I will greatly multiply you r pain in childbearing\; in pain you shall bring forth children\, yet your desire shall be for your husband\, and he shall rule over you." And to Ad am he said\, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife\, and ha ve eaten of the tree of which I commanded you\, 'You shall not eat of it\, ' cursed is the ground because of you\; in toil you shall eat of it all th e days of your life\; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to you\; an d you shall eat the plants of the field. In the sweat of your face you sha ll eat bread till you return to the ground\, for out of it you were taken\ ; you are dust\, and to dust you shall return."\n\nThe man called his wife 's name Eve\, because she was the mother of all living.\n\nOld Testament R eading: Proverbs 3:19-34 \nThe Lord by wisdom founded the earth\; by unde rstanding he established the heavens\; by his knowledge the deeps broke fo rth\, and the clouds drop down the dew.\n\nMy son\, keep sound wisdom and discretion\; let them not escape from your sight\, and they will be life f or your soul and adornment for your neck. Then you will walk on your way s ecurely and your foot will not stumble. If you sit down\, you will not be afraid\; when you lie down\, your sleep will be sweet. Do not be afraid of sudden panic\, or of the ruin of the wicked\, when it comes\; for the Lor d will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught. Do no t withhold good from those to whom it is due\, when it is in your power to do it.\n\nDo not say to your neighbor\, "Go\, and come again\, tomorrow I will give it" -- when you have it with you. Do not plan evil against your neighbor who dwells trustingly beside you. Do not contend with a man for no reason\, when he has done you no harm. Do not envy a man of violence an d do not choose any of his ways\; for the perverse man is an abomination t o the Lord\, but the upright are in his confidence. The Lord's curse is on the house of the wicked\, but he blesses the abode of the righteous. Towa rd the scorners he is scornful\, but to the humble he shows favor.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260227 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260228 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132927 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132930 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 First Saturday of Lent: The Commemoration of the Miracle of Ko llyva wrought by Saint Theodore the Tyro DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 02/28/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: First Saturday of Lent: The Commemoration of the Miracle of Kollyva w rought by Saint Theodore the Tyro\; Righteous John Cassian the Confessor\; Basil the Confessor\; Jonah the Righteous Martyr of Lerios\; Kyranna the New Martyr of Thessaloniki\n\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\n\nEpistle R eading: St. Paul's Second Letter to Timothy 2:1-10 \nTimothy\, my son\, b e strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus\, and what you have heard fr om me before many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to te ach others also. Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier on service gets entangled in civilian pursuits\, since his aim is to satisfy the one who enlisted him. An athlete is not crowned unless he c ompetes according to the rules. It is the hardworking farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops. Think over what I say\, for the Lord wi ll grant you understanding in everything.\n\nRemember Jesus Christ\, risen from the dead\, descended from David\, as preached in my gospel\, the gos pel for which I am suffering and wearing fetters like a criminal. But the word of God is not fettered. Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect\, that they also may obtain salvation in Christ Jesus with its eternal glory.\n\nGospel Reading: Mark 2:23-28\; 3:1-5 \nAt that time\, J esus was going through the grainfields\; and as they made their way his di sciples began to pluck heads of grain. And the Pharisees said to him\, "Lo ok\, why are they doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?" And he said to them\, "Have you never read what David did\, when he was in need and was hungry\, he and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God\, when Abiathar was high priest\, and ate the bread of the Presence\, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat\, and also gave it to tho se who were with him?" And he said to them\, "The sabbath was made for man \, not man for the sabbath\; so the Son of man is lord even of the sabbath ."\n\nAgain he entered the synagogue\, and a man was there who had a withe red hand. And they watched him\, to see whether he would heal him on the s abbath\, so that they might accuse him. And he said to the man who had the withered hand\, "Come here." And he said to them\, "Is it lawful on the s abbath to do good or to do harm\, to save life or to kill?" But they were silent. And he looked around at them with anger\, grieved at their hardnes s of heart\, and said to the man\, "Stretch it out\," and his hand was res tored.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260228 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260301 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132930 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132931 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 Sunday of Orthodoxy DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/01/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Sunday of Orthodoxy\; The Holy Righteous Martyr Eudocia the Samaritan \; Andonina the New Martyr\; David the Archbishop\n\nFast Day (Wine and Oi l Allowed)\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: Luke 24:12-35 \nAt that time\, \\[Pe ter rose and ran to the tomb\; stooping and looking in\, he saw the linen cloths by themselves\; and he went home wondering at what had happened. Th at very day\\] two of them were going to a village named Emmaus\, about se ven miles from Jerusalem\, and talking with each other about all these thi ngs that had happened. While they were talking and discussing together\, J esus Himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were kept from r ecognizing Him. And He said to them\, "What is this conversation which you are holding with each other as you walk?" and they stood still\, looking sad. Then one of them\, named Cleopas\, answered Him\, "Are you the only v isitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?" And He said to them\, "What things?" And they said to him\ , "Concerning Jesus of Nazareth\, who was a prophet mighty in deed and wor d before God and all the people\, and how our chief priests and rulers del ivered Him up to be condemned to death\, and crucified Him. But we had hop ed that He was the one to redeem Israel. Yes\, and besides all this\, it i s now the third day since this happened. Moreover\, some women of our comp any amazed us. They were at the tomb early in the morning and did not find His body\; and they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels\, who said that He was alive. Some of those who were with us went t o the tomb\, and found it just as the women had said\; but Him they did no t see." And He said to them\, "O foolish men\, and slow of heart to believ e all that the prophets have spoken! Was not it necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into this glory?" And beginning with Moses and all the prophets\, He interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning Himself. So they drew near to the village to which t hey were going. He appeared to be going further\, but they constrained Him \, saying\, "Stay with us\, for it is toward evening and the day is now fa r spent." So He went in to stay with them. When He was at table with them\ , He took the bread and blessed\, and broke it\, and gave it to them. And their eyes were opened and they recognized Him\; and He vanished out of th eir sight. They said to each other\, "Did not our hearts burn within us wh ile He talked to us on the road\, while He opened to us the scriptures?" A nd they rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem\; and they found the eleven gathered together and those who were with them\, who said\, "The L ord has risen indeed\, and has appeared to Simon!" Then they told what had happened on the road and how He was known to them in the breaking of the bread.\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 11:24-26\, 32- 40 \nBrethren\, by faith Moses\, when he was grown up\, refused to be cal led the son of Pharaoh's daughter\, choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. He co nsidered abuse suffered for the Christ greater wealth than the treasures o f Egypt\, for he looked to the reward.\n\nAnd what more shall I say? For t ime would fail me to tell of Gideon\, Barak\, Samson\, Jephthah\, of David and Samuel and the prophets -- who through faith conquered kingdoms\, enf orced justice\, received promises\, stopped the mouths of lions\, quenched raging fire\, escaped the edge of the sword\, won strength out of weaknes s\, became mighty in war\, put foreign enemies to flight. Women received t heir dead by resurrection. Some were tortured\, refusing to accept release \, that they might rise again to a better life. Others suffered mocking an d scourging\, and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned\, they we re sawn in two\, they were killed with the sword\; they went about in skin s of sheep and goats\, destitute\, afflicted\, ill-treated -- of whom the world was not worthy -- wandering over deserts and mountains\, and in dens and caves of the earth.\n\nAnd all these\, though well attested by their faith\, did not receive what was promised\, since God had foreseen somethi ng better for us\, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.\n\n Gospel Reading: John 1:43-51 \nAt that time\, Jesus decided to go to Gali lee. And he found Philip and said to him\, "Follow me." Now Philip was fro m Bethsaida\, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael\, and h e said to him\, "We have found him of whom Moses in the law and also the p rophets wrote\, Jesus of Nazareth\, the son of Joseph." Nathanael said to him\, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him\, "Come and see." Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him\, and said of him\, "Behold\, an Israelite indeed\, in whom is no guile!" Nathanael said to him\, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him\, "Before Philip called you\, when you were under the fig tree\, I saw you." Nathanael answered him\, "Rabbi\, y ou are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!" Jesus answered him\, " Because I said to you\, I saw you under the fig tree\, do you believe? You shall see greater things than these." And he said to him\, "Truly\, truly \, I say to you\, you will see heaven opened\, and the angels of God ascen ding and descending upon the Son of man."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260301 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260302 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132931 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132932 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Hesychius the Martyr DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/02/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Hesychius the Martyr\; Our Holy Father Nicholas Planas\; Joachim of V atopedi who was given the name Papoulakis\; Andronikos &\; Athanasia th e Martyrs\; Theodotos the Holy Martyr\, Bishop of Cyrenia\; Euthalia the V irgin-Martyr of Sicily\; Chad\, Bishop of Lichfield\n\nStrict Fast\n\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 4:2-5:7 \nIn that day the branch of the LORD sh all be beautiful and glorious\, and the fruit of the land shall be the pri de and glory of the survivors of Israel. And he who is left in Zion and re mains in Jerusalem will be called holy\, every one who has been recorded f or life in Jerusalem\, when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of t he daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem from its mi dst by a spirit of judgment and by a spirit of burning. Then the LORD will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day\, and smoke and the shining of a flaming fire by night\; for over a ll the glory there will be a canopy and a pavilion. It will be for a shade by day from the heat\, and for a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain. Let me sing for my beloved a love song concerning his vineyard: My b eloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. He digged it and cleared it of stones\, and planted it with choice vines\; he built a watchtower in th e midst of it\, and hewed out a wine vat in it\; and he looked for it to y ield grapes\, but it yielded wild grapes. And now\, O inhabitants of Jerus alem and men of Judah\, judge\, I pray you\, between me and my vineyard. W hat more was there to do for my vineyard\, that I have not done in it? Whe n I looked for it to yield grapes\, why did it yield wild grapes? And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge\, a nd it shall be devoured\; I will break down its wall\, and it shall be tra mpled down. I will make it a waste\; it shall not be pruned or hoed\, and briers and thorns shall grow up\; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel\, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting\; and he looked for justice\, but behold\, bloodshed\; for righteousness\, but behold\, a cry!\n\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 3:21-4:7 \nAnd the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins\, and clothed them. Then the L ORD God said\, "Behold\, the man has become like one of us\, knowing good and evil\; and now\, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life\, and eat\, and live for ever"- therefore the LORD God sent him fo rth from the garden of Eden\, to till the ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man\; and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim\, and a flaming sword which turned every way\, to guard the way to the tree of life.\n\nNow Adam knew Eve his wife\, and she conceived and bore Cain\, saying\, "I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD." And again\, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep\, and C ain a tiller of the ground. In the course of time Cain brought to the LORD an offering of the fruit of the ground\, and Abel brought of the firstlin gs of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abe l and his offering\, but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Ca in was very angry\, and his countenance fell. The LORD said to Cain\, "Why are you angry\, and why has your countenance fallen? If you do well\, wil l you not be accepted? And if you do not do well\, sin is couching at the door\; its desire is for you\, but you must master it."\n\nOld Testament R eading: Proverbs 3:34-4:22 \nToward the scorners he is scornful\, but to the humble he shows favor. The wise will inherit honor\, but fools get dis grace.\n\nHear\, O sons\, a father's instruction\, and be attentive\, that you may gain insight\; for I give you good precepts: do not forsake my te aching. When I was a son with my father\, tender\, the only one in the sig ht of my mother\, he taught me\, and said to me\, "Let your heart hold fas t my words\; keep my commandments\, and live\; do not forget\, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. Get wisdom\; get insight. Do not for sake her\, and she will keep you\; love her\, and she will guard you. The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom\, and whatever you get\, get insig ht. Prize her highly\, and she will exalt you\; she will honor you if you embrace her. She will place on your head a fair garland\; she will bestow on you a beautiful crown."\n\nHear\, my son\, and accept my words\, that t he years of your life may be many. I have taught you the way of wisdom\; I have led you in the paths of uprightness. When you walk\, your step will not be hampered\; and if you run\, you will not stumble. Keep hold of inst ruction\, do not let go\; guard her\, for she is your life. Do not enter t he path of the wicked\, and do not walk in the way of evil men. Avoid it\; do not go on it\; turn away from it and pass on. For they cannot sleep un less they have done wrong\; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made some one stumble. For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence. But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn\, wh ich shines brighter and brighter until full day. The way of the wicked is like deep darkness\; they do not know over what they stumble.\n\nMy son\, be attentive to my words\; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not es cape from your sight\; keep them within your heart.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260302 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260303 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132932 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132933 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ The Holy Martyrs Eutropius\, Cleonicus\, and Basiliscus DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/03/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: The Holy Martyrs Eutropius\, Cleonicus\, and Basiliscus\; Theodoretos the Holy Martyr of Antioch\; Nonnita\, mother of Saint David\n\nStrict Fa st\n\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 5:7-16 \nThus says the Lord: For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel\, and the men of Juda h are his pleasant planting\; and he looked for justice\, but behold\, blo odshed\; for righteousness\, but behold\, a cry! Woe to those who join hou se to house\, who add field to field\, until there is no more room\, and y ou are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land. The LORD of hosts has sworn in my hearing: "Surely many houses shall be desolate\, large and be autiful houses\, without inhabitant. For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath\, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah." Woe to thos e who rise early in the morning\, that they may run after strong drink\, w ho tarry late into the evening till wine inflames them! They have lyre and harp\, timbrel and flute and wine at their feasts\; but they do not regar d the deeds of the LORD\, or see the work of his hands. Therefore my peopl e go into exile for want of knowledge\; their honored men are dying of hun ger\, and their multitude is parched with thirst. Therefore Sheol has enla rged its appetite and opened its mouth beyond measure\, and the nobility o f Jerusalem and her multitude go down\, her throng and he who exults in he r. Man is bowed down\, and men are brought low\, and the eyes of the haugh ty are humbled. But the LORD of hosts is exalted in justice\, and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness.\n\nOld Testament Reading: Genesi s 4:8-15 \nCain said to Abel his brother\, "Let us go out to the field." And when they were in the field\, Cain rose up against his brother Abel\, and killed him. Then the LORD said to Cain\, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said\, "I do not know\; am I my brother's keeper?" And the LORD said\, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me fr om the ground. And now you are cursed from the ground\, which has opened i ts mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. When you till the ground\, it shall no longer yield to you its strength\; you shall be a fu gitive and a wanderer on the earth." Cain said to the LORD\, "My punishmen t is greater than I can bear. Behold\, thou hast driven me this day away f rom the ground\; and from thy face I shall be hidden\; and I shall be a fu gitive and a wanderer on the earth\, and whoever finds me will slay me." T hen the LORD said to him\, "Not so! If any one slays Cain\, vengeance shal l be taken on him sevenfold." And the LORD put a mark on Cain\, lest any w ho came upon him should kill him.\n\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 5:1-1 5 \nMy son\, be attentive to my wisdom\, incline your ear to my understan ding\; that you may keep discretion\, and your lips may guard knowledge. F or the lips of a loose woman drip honey\, and her speech is smoother than oil\; but in the end she is bitter as wormwood\, sharp as a two-edged swor d. Her feet go down to death\; her steps follow the path to Sheol\; she do es not take heed to the path of life\; her ways wander\, and she does not know it.\n\nAnd now\, O sons\, listen to me\, and do not depart from the w ords of my mouth. Keep your way far from her\, and do not go near the door of her house\; lest you give your honor to others and your years to the m erciless\; lest strangers take their fill of your strength\, and your labo rs go to the house of an alien\; and at the end of your life you groan\, w hen your flesh and body are consumed\, and you say\, "How I hated discipli ne\, and my heart despised reproof! I did not listen to the voice of my te achers or incline my ear to my instructors. I was at the point of utter ru in in the assembled congregation." Drink water from your own cistern\, flo wing water from your own well.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260303 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260304 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132933 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132935 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Gerasimus the Righteous of Jordan DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/04/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Gerasimus the Righteous of Jordan\; Paul &\; his sister Juliana an d their Companions\; Daniel\, Prince of Moscow\; Gregory\, Bishop of Const ance\n\nStrict Fast\n\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 5:16-25 \nBut the LO RD of hosts is exalted in justice\, and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness. Then shall the lambs graze as in their pasture\, fatlings and kids shall feed among the ruins. Woe to those who draw iniquity with c ords of falsehood\, who draw sin as with cart ropes\, who say: "Let him ma ke haste\, let him speed his work that we may see it\; let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near\, and let it come\, that we may know it!" Woe to those who call evil good and good evil\, who put darkness for ligh t and light for darkness\, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes\, and shrewd in their own sigh t! Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine\, and valiant men in mixin g strong drink\, who acquit the guilty for a bribe\, and deprive the innoc ent of his right! Therefore\, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble\, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame\, so their root will be as rotten ness\, and their blossom go up like dust\; for they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts\, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israe l. Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against his people\, and he stretched out his hand against them and smote them\, and the mountains qu aked\; and their corpses were as refuse in the midst of the streets. For a ll this his anger is not turned away and his hand is stretched out still.\ n\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 4:16-26 \nThen Cain went away from the presence of the LORD\, and dwelt in the land of Nod\, east of Eden. Cain k new his wife\, and she conceived and bore Enoch\; and he built a city\, an d called the name of the city after the name of his son\, Enoch. To Enoch was born Irad\; and Irad was the father of Mehujael\, and Mehujael the fat her of Methushael\, and Methushael the father of Lamech. And Lamech took t wo wives\; the name of the one was Adah\, and the name of the other Zillah . Adah bore Jabal\; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have cattle. His brother's name was Jubal\; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe. Zillah bore Tubalcain\; he was the forger of all instruments of bronze and iron. The sister of Tubalcain was Naamah. Lamech said to his wives: "Adah and Zillah\, hear my voice\; you wives of Lamech \, hearken to what I say: I have slain a man for wounding me\, a young man for striking me. If Cain is avenged sevenfold\, truly Lamech seventy-seve nfold."\n\nAnd Adam knew his wife again\, and she bore a son and called hi s name Seth\, for she said\, "God has appointed for me another child inste ad of Abel\, for Cain slew him." To Seth also a son was born\, and he call ed his name Enosh. At that time men began to call upon the name of the LOR D.\n\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 5:15-6:3 \nDrink water from your ow n cistern\, flowing water from your own well. Should your springs be scatt ered abroad\, streams of water in the streets? Let them be for yourself al one\, and not for strangers with you. Let your fountain be blessed\, and r ejoice in the wife of your youth\, a lovely hind\, a graceful doe. Let her affection fill you at all times with delight\, be infatuated always with her love. Why should you be infatuated\, my son\, with a loose woman and e mbrace the bosom of an adventuress? For a man's ways are before the eyes o f the LORD\, and he watches all his paths. The iniquities of the wicked en snare him\, and he is caught in the toils of his sin. He dies for lack of discipline\, and because of his great folly he is lost.\n\nMy son\, if you have become surety for your neighbor\, have given your pledge for a stran ger\; if you are snared in the utterance of your lips\, caught in the word s of your mouth\; then do this\, my son\, and save yourself\, for you have come into your neighbor's power: go\, hasten\, and importune your neighbo r.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260304 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260305 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132935 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132936 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Conon the Gardener DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/05/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Conon the Gardener\; Parthenios the New Martyr who contested in Didym oteichos\; Mark the Ascetic\; Righteous Father Mark of Athens\; John the B ulgarian\; Mark the Faster\; George the New-Martyr of Rapsani\; Eulogios t he Martyr\; Eulabios the Martyr\; Conon the Isaurian\; Archelaos the Marty r of Egypt\n\nStrict Fast\n\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 6:1-12 \nIn th e year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne\, high a nd lifted up\; and his train filled the temple. Above him stood the seraph im\; each had six wings: with two he covered his face\, and with two he co vered his feet\, and with two he flew. And one called to another and said: "Holy\, holy\, holy is the LORD of hosts\; the whole earth is full of his glory." And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him w ho called\, and the house was filled with smoke. And I said: "Woe is me! F or I am lost\; for I am a man of unclean lips\, and I dwell in the midst o f a people of unclean lips\; for my eyes have seen the King\, the LORD of hosts!" Then flew one of the seraphim to me\, having in his hand a burning coal which he had taken with tongs from the altar. And he touched my mout h\, and said: "Behold\, this has touched your lips\; your guilt is taken a way\, and your sin forgiven." And I heard the voice of the Lord saying\, " Whom shall I send\, and who will go for us?" Then I said\, "Here am I! Sen d me." And he said\, "Go\, and say to this people: 'Hear and hear\, but do not understand\; see and see\, but do not perceive.' Make the heart of th is people fat\, and their ears heavy\, and shut their eyes\; lest they see with their eyes\, and hear with their ears\, and understand with their he arts\, and turn and be healed." Then I said\, "How long\, O Lord?" And he said: "Until cities lie waste without inhabitant\, and houses without men\ , and the land is utterly desolate\, and the LORD removes men far away\, a nd the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land."\n\nOld Testamen t Reading: Genesis 5:1-24 \nThis is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man\, he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them\, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were c reated. When Adam had lived a hundred and thirty years\, he became the fat her of a son in his own likeness\, after his image\, and named him Seth. T he days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred year s\; and he had other sons and daughters. Thus all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years\; and he died.\n\nWhen Seth had lived a hundred and five years\, he became the father of Enosh. Seth lived after the birth of Enosh eight hundred and seven years\, and had other sons and daughters. Thus all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years\; and he died.\n\nWhen Enosh had lived ninety years\, he became the father of Kenan. Enosh lived after the birth of Kenan eight hundred and fifteen y ears\, and had other sons and daughters. Thus all the days of Enosh were n ine hundred and five years\; and he died.\n\nWhen Kenan had lived seventy years\, he became the father of Mahalalel. Kenan lived after the birth of Mahalalel eight hundred and forty years\, and had other sons and daughters . Thus all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years\; and he died .\n\nWhen Mahalalel had lived sixty-five years\, he became the father of J ared. Mahalalel lived after the birth of Jared eight hundred and thirty ye ars\, and had other sons and daughters. Thus all the days of Mahalalel wer e eight hundred and ninety-five years\; and he died.\n\nWhen Jared had liv ed a hundred and sixty-two years he became the father of Enoch. Jared live d after the birth of Enoch eight hundred years\, and had other sons and da ughters. Thus all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years\ ; and he died. When Enoch had lived sixty-five years\, he became the fathe r of Methuselah. Enoch walked with God after the birth of Methuselah three hundred years\, and had other sons and daughters. Thus all the days of En och were three hundred and sixty-five years. Enoch walked with God\; and h e was not\, for God took him.\n\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 6:3-20 \ nThen do this\, my son\, and save yourself\, for you have come into your n eighbor's power: go\, hasten\, and importune your neighbor. Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber\; save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter\, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.\n\nGo to the ant\, O sluggard\; consider her ways\, and be wise. Without having any chief\, of ficer or ruler\, she prepares her food in summer\, and gathers her sustena nce in harvest. How long will you lie there\, O sluggard? When will you ar ise from your sleep? A little sleep\, a little slumber\, a little folding of the hands to rest\, and poverty will come upon you like a vagabond\, an d want like an armed man. A worthless person\, a wicked man\, goes about w ith crooked speech\, winks with his eyes\, scrapes with his feet\, points with his finger\, with perverted heart devises evil\, continually sowing d iscord\; therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly\; in a moment he w ill be broken beyond healing.\n\nThere are six things which the LORD hates \, seven which are an abomination to him: haughty eyes\, a lying tongue\, and hands that shed innocent blood\, a heart that devises wicked plans\, f eet that make haste to run to evil\, a false witness who breathes out lies \, and a man who sows discord among brothers. My son\, keep your father's commandment\, and forsake not your mother's teaching.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260305 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260306 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132936 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132937 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ 42 Martyrs of Amorion in Phrygia DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/06/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 42 Martyrs of Amorion in Phrygia\; Finding the Precious Cross by St. Helen\; Hesychios the Wonderworker\n\nStrict Fast\n\nOld Testament Reading : Isaiah 7:1-14 \nIn the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham\, son of Uzziah\, king of Judah\, Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah the king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war against it\, but they cou ld not conquer it. When the house of David was told\, "Syria is in league with Ephraim\," his heart and the heart of his people shook as the trees o f the forest shake before the wind.\n\nAnd the LORD said to Isaiah\, "Go f orth to meet Ahaz\, you and Shearjashub your son\, at the end of the condu it of the upper pool on the highway to the Fuller's Field\, and say to him \, 'Take heed\, be quiet\, do not fear\, and do not let your heart be fain t because of these two smoldering stumps of firebrands\, at the fierce ang er of Rezin and Syria and the son of Remaliah. Because Syria\, with Ephrai m and the son of Remaliah\, has devised evil against you\, saying\, "Let u s go up against Judah and terrify it\, and let us conquer it for ourselves \, and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it\," thus says th e Lord GOD: It shall not stand\, and it shall not come to pass. For the he ad of Syria is Damascus\, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. (Within sixty -five years Ephraim will be broken to pieces so that it will no longer be a people.) And the head of Ephraim is Samaria\, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you will not believe\, surely you shall not be es tablished.'"\n\nAgain the LORD spoke to Ahaz\, "Ask a sign of the LORD you r God\; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven." But Ahaz said\, "I wil l not ask\, and I will not put the LORD to the test." And he said\, "Hear then\, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary men\, that you weary my God also? Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold \, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son\, and shall call his name Immanu el.\n\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 5:32-6:8 \nAfter Noah was five hund red years old\, Noah became the father of Shem\, Ham\, and Japheth. When m en began to multiply on the face of the ground\, and daughters were born t o them\, the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair\; and the y took to wife such of them as they chose. Then the LORD said\, "My spirit shall not abide in man for ever\, for he is flesh\, but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years." The Nephilim were on the earth in those days \, and also afterward\, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of m en\, and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men that were o f old\, the men of renown.\n\nThe LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth\, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his hea rt was only evil continually. And the LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth\, and it grieved him to his heart. So the LORD said\, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the ground\, man and be ast and creeping things and birds of the air\, for I am sorry that I have made them." But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.\n\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 6:20-7:1 \nMy son\, keep your father's commandment\, a nd forsake not your mother's teaching. Bind them upon your heart always\; tie them about your neck. When you walk\, they will lead you\; when you li e down\, they will watch over you\; and when you awake\, they will talk wi th you. For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light\, and the r eproofs of discipline are the way of life\, to preserve you from the evil woman\, from the smooth tongue of the adventuress. Do not desire her beaut y in your heart\, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes\; for a harlot may be hired for a loaf of bread\, but an adulteress stalks a man 's very life. Can a man carry fire in his bosom and his clothes not be bur ned? Or can one walk upon hot coals and his feet not be scorched? So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife\; none who touches her will go unpunis hed. Do not men despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry? And if he is caught\, he will pay sevenfold\; he will give a ll the goods of his house. He who commits adultery has no sense\; he who d oes it destroys himself. Wounds and dishonor will he get\, and his disgrac e will not be wiped away. For jealousy makes a man furious\, and he will n ot spare when he takes revenge. He will accept no compensation\, nor be ap peased though you multiply gifts. My son\, keep my words and treasure up m y commandments with you.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260306 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260307 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132937 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132939 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 Second Saturday of Lent DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/07/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Second Saturday of Lent\; The Holy Martyred Bishops of Cherson: Basil eus\, Ephraim\, Eugene\, Capito\, Aetherius\, Agathodorus\, and Elpidius\; Lavrentios of Megara\, the Righteous\; Paul the Simple\n\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 3:12 -16 \nBRETHREN\, take care lest there be in any of you an evil\, unbeliev ing heart\, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one a nother every day\, as long as it is called "today\," that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we share in Christ\, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end\, while it is said\, "Today\, when you hear his voice\, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion." Who were they that heard and yet were rebellious? Was it not all those wh o left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?\n\nGospel Reading: Mark 1:35-4 4 \nAt that time\, Jesus went out to a lonely place\, and there he prayed . And Simon and those who were with him pursued him\, and they found him a nd said to him\, "Everyone is searching for you." And he said to them\, "L et us go on to the next towns\, that I may preach there also\; for that is why I came out." And he went throughout all Galilee\, preaching in their synagogues and casting out demons. And a leper came to him beseeching him\ , and kneeling said to him\, "If you will\, you can make me clean." Moved with pity\, he stretched out his hand and touched him\, and said to him\, "I will\; be clean." And immediately the leprosy left him\, and he was mad e clean. And he sternly charged him\, and sent him away at once\, and said to him\, "See that you say nothing to any one\; but go\, show yourself to a priest\, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded\, for a proo f to them."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260307 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260308 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132939 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132941 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/08/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas\; Theophylact the Confessor\, Bishop of Nicomedia\; Hermas the Apostle of the 70\; Dometios the Righteous\; Paul the Confessor\; Felix of Burgundy\, Enlightener of East Anglia\n\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: Luke 24:36-53 \nAt that time\, having risen from the dead\, Jesus went up and stood among His dis ciples and said to them\, "Peace be with you." But they were startled and frightened\, and supposed that they saw a spirit. And He said to them\, "W hy are you troubled\, and why do questionings rise in your hearts? See My hands and My feet\, that it is I Myself\; handle Me\, and see\; for a spir it has not flesh and bones as you see that I have." And when He had said t his\, He showed them His hands and His feet. And while they still disbelie ved for joy\, and wondered\, He said to them\, "Have you anything here to eat?" They gave Him a piece of broiled fish \\[and some honeycomb\\]\, and He took it and ate before them. Then He said to them\, "These are My word s which I spoke to you\, while I was still with you\, that everything writ ten about Me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be f ulfilled." Then He opened their minds to understand the scriptures\, and s aid to them\, "Thus it is written\, that the Christ should suffer and on t he third day rise from the dead\, and that repentance and forgiveness of s ins should be preached in His name in all nations\, beginning from Jerusal em. You are witnesses of these things. And behold\, I send the promise of My Father upon you\; but stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high." Then He led them out as far as Bethany\, and lifting up Hi s hands\, He blessed them. While He blessed them\, He parted from them\, a nd was carried up into heaven. And they worshiped Him\, and returned to Je rusalem with great joy\, and were continually in the Temple blessing God.\ n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 1:10-14\; 2:1-3 \nIN THE BEGINNING\, Thou\, Lord\, didst found the earth in the beginning\, an d the heavens are the work of thy hands\; they will perish\, but thou rema inest\; they will all grow old like a garment\, like a mantle thou wilt ro ll them up\, and they will be changed. But thou art the same\, and thy yea rs will never end." But to what angel has he ever said\, "Sit at my right hand\, till I make thy enemies a stool for thy feet?" Are they not all min istering spirits sent forth to serve\, for the sake of those who are to ob tain salvation?\n\nTherefore we must pay closer attention to what we have heard\, lest we drift away from it. For if the message declared by angels was valid and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribut ion\, how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was dec lared at first by the Lord\, and it was attested to us by those who heard him.\n\nGospel Reading: Mark 2:1-12 \nAt that time\, Jesus entered Capern aum and it was reported that he was at home. And many were gathered togeth er\, so that there was no longer room for them\, not even about the door\; and he was preaching the word to them. And they came\, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. And when they could not get near him becaus e of the crowd\, they removed the roof above him\; and when they had made an opening\, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic lay. And when Jesus saw their faith\, he said to the paralytic\, "My son\, your sins ar e forgiven." Now some of the scribes were sitting there\, questioning in t heir hearts\, "Why does this man speak thus? It is a blasphemy! Who can fo rgive sins but God alone?" And immediately Jesus\, perceiving in his spiri t that they thus questioned within themselves\, said to them\, "Why do you question thus in your hearts? Which is easier\, to say to the paralytic\, 'Your sins are forgiven\,' or to say\, 'Rise\, take up your pallet and wa lk? But that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to fo rgive sins"-he said to the paralytic-"I say to you\, rise\, take up your p allet and go home." And he rose\, and immediately took up the pallet and w ent out before them all\; so that they were all amazed and glorified God\, saying\, "We never saw anything like this!"\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260308 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260309 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132941 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2056579499 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:No Great Compline Service this evening CATEGORIES:Services CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260309T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260309T193000 CREATED:20260308T232300Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2056579499 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132943 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 The Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebastia DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/09/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: The Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebastia\; Caesarios the Righteous\n\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: Luke 21:12-19 \nThe Lord said to his disciples\, "Beware of men who will lay their hands on yo u and persecute you\, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons\, an d you will be brought before kings and governors for my name's sake. This will be a time for you to bear testimony. Settle it therefore in your mind s\, not to meditate beforehand how to answer\; for I will give you a mouth and wisdom\, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict. You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and kins men and friends\, and some of you they will put to death\; you will be hat ed by all for my name's sake. But not a hair of your head will perish. By your endurance you will gain your lives."\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's L etter to the Hebrews 12:1-10 \nBRETHREN\, since we are surrounded by so g reat a cloud of witnesses\, let us also lay aside every weight\, and sin w hich clings so closely\, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us\, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith\, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross\, despising the shame\, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider hi m who endured from sinners such hostility against himself\, so that you ma y not grow weary or fainthearted. In your struggle against sin you have no t yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. And have you forgotten the exhortation which addresses you as sons? "My son\, do not regard ligh tly the discipline of the Lord\, nor lose courage when you are punished by him. For the Lord disciplines him whom he loves\, and chastises every son whom he receives." It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is t reating you as sons\; for what son is there whom his father does not disci pline? If you are left without discipline\, in which all have participated \, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Besides this\, we have had earthly fathers to discipline us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits\, and live? For they discipl ined us for a short time at their pleasure\, but He disciplines us for our good\, that we may share his holiness.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 20:1-16 \nThe Lord said this parable\, "The kingdom of heaven is like a househol der who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. A fter agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day\, he sent them into h is vineyard. And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idl e in the marketplace\; and to them he said\, 'You go into the vineyard too \, and whatever is right I will give you.' So they went. Going out again a bout the sixth hour and the ninth hour\, he did the same. And about the el eventh hour he went out and found others standing\; and he said to them\, 'Why do you stand here idle all day?' They said to him\, 'Because no one h as hired us.' He said to them\, 'You go into the vineyard too.' And when e vening came\, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward\, 'Call the la borers and pay them their wages\, beginning with the last\, up to the firs t.' And when those hired about the eleventh hour came\, each of them recei ved a denarius. Now when the first came\, they thought they would receive more\; but each of them also received a denarius. And on receiving it they grumbled at the householder\, saying\, 'These last worked only one hour\, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day a nd the scorching heat.' But he replied to one of them\, 'Friend\, I am doi ng you no wrong\; did you not agree with me for a denarius? Take what belo ngs to you\, and go\; I choose to give to this last as I give to you. Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or is your eye e vil because I am good?' So the last will be first\, and the first last. Fo r many are called\, but few are chosen."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260309 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260310 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132943 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132945 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Quadratus the Martyr & his Companions DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/10/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Quadratus the Martyr &\; his Companions\; Anastasia of Alexandria\ ; Michael Mauroudes the New-Martyr\n\nStrict Fast\n\nOld Testament Reading : Isaiah 9:9-10:4 \nThus says the LORD: "And all the people will know\, E phraim and the inhabitants of Samaria\, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart: 'The bricks have fallen\, but we will build with dressed stones\ ; the sycamores have been cut down\, but we will put cedars in their place .'" So the LORD raises adversaries against them\, and stirs up their enemi es. The Syrians on the east and the Philistines on the west devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away and his hand is stretched out still. The people did not turn to him who smote them\, nor seek the LORD of hosts. So the LORD cut off from Israel head and tail\, pa lm branch and reed in one day - the elder and honored man is the head\, an d the prophet who teaches lies is the tail\; for those who lead this peopl e lead them astray\, and those who are led by them are swallowed up. There fore the Lord does not rejoice over their young men\, and has no compassio n on their fatherless and widows\; for every one is godless and an evildoe r\, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned awa y and his hand is stretched out still. For wickedness burns like a fire\, it consumes briers and thorns\; it kindles the thickets of the forest\, an d they roll upward in a column of smoke. Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts the land is burned\, and the people are like fuel for the fire\; no man spares his brother. They snatch on the right\, but are still hungry\, and they devour on the left\, but are not satisfied\; each devours his nei ghbor's flesh\, Manasseh\, Ephraim\, and Ephraim\, Manasseh\, and together they are against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away and his hand is stretched out still.\n\nWoe to those who decree iniquitous decree s\, and the writers who keep writing oppression\, to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right\, that widows may be their spoil\, and that they may make the fatherless their prey! Wh at will you do on the day of punishment\, in the storm which will come fro m afar? To whom will you flee for help\, and where will you leave your wea lth? Nothing remains but to crouch among the prisoners or fall among the s lain. For all this his anger is not turned away and his hand is stretched out still.\n\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 7:1-5 \nThen the LORD said t o Noah\, "Go into the ark\, you and all your household\, for I have seen t hat you are righteous before me in this generation. Take with you seven pa irs of all clean animals\, the male and his mate\; and a pair of the anima ls that are not clean\, the male and his mate\; and seven pairs of the bir ds of the air also\, male and female\, to keep their kind alive upon the f ace of all the earth. For in seven days I will send rain upon the earth fo rty days and forty nights\; and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground." And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.\n\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 8:32-9:11 \nAnd now\, my sons\, listen to me: happy are those who keep my ways. Hear instruction and be wise\, and do not neglect it. Happy is the man who listens to me\, watching daily at my gates\, waiting beside my doors. For he who finds me finds life and obtains favor from the LORD\; but he who misses me injures himself\; all who hate me love death." Wisdom has built her house\, she h as set up her seven pillars. She has slaughtered her beasts\, she has mixe d her wine\, she has also set her table. She has sent out her maids to cal l from the highest places in the town\, "Whoever is simple\, let him turn in here!" To him who is without sense she says\, "Come\, eat of my bread a nd drink of the wine I have mixed. Leave simpleness\, and live\, and walk in the way of insight." He who corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse\, and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury. Do not reprove a scoffer\, or he will hate you\; reprove a wise man\, and he will love you. Give instru ction to a wise man\, and he will be still wiser\; teach a righteous man a nd he will increase in learning. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom\, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight. For by me your days will be multiplied\, and years will be added to your life.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260310 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260311 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132945 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2056579820 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Presanctified Liturgy - lenten community meal (no charge) CATEGORIES:Services,Church Events CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260311T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260311T193000 CREATED:20260308T232645Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2056579820 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132947 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Sophronius\, Patriarch of Jerusalem DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/11/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Sophronius\, Patriarch of Jerusalem\; Theodora the Righteous\; Pionio s the Presbyter\; George the New Wonderworker of Constantinople\; Trophimo s and Thallos the Martyrs\n\nStrict Fast\n\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 10:12-20 \nWhen the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on J erusalem he will punish the arrogant boasting of the king of Assyria and h is haughty pride. For he says: "By the strength of my hand I have done it\ , and by my wisdom\, for I have understanding\; I have removed the boundar ies of peoples\, and have plundered their treasures\; like a bull I have b rought down those who sat on thrones. My hand has found like a nest the we alth of the peoples\; and as men gather eggs that have been forsaken so I have gathered all the earth\; and there was none that moved a wing\, or op ened the mouth\, or chirped." Shall the axe vaunt itself over him who hews with it\, or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? As if a ro d should wield him who lifts it\, or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood! Therefore the Lord\, the LORD of hosts\, will send wasting sickn ess among his stout warriors\, and under his glory a burning will be kindl ed\, like the burning of fire. The light of Israel will become a fire\, an d his Holy One a flame\; and it will burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day. The glory of his forest and of his fruitful land the LORD wil l destroy\, both soul and body\, and it will be as when a sick man wastes away. The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few that a child c an write them down. In that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no more lean upon him that smote them\, but will lean upon the LORD\, the Holy One of Israel\, in truth.\n\nOld Testament R eading: Genesis 7:6-9 \nNoah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth. And Noah and his sons and his wife and his son s' wives with him went into the ark\, to escape the waters of the flood. O f clean animals\, and of animals that are not clean\, and of birds\, and o f everything that creeps on the ground\, two and two\, male and female\, w ent into the ark with Noah\, as God had commanded Noah.\n\nOld Testament R eading: Proverbs 9:12-18 \nIf you are wise\, you are wise for yourself\; if you scoff\, you alone will bear it. A foolish woman is noisy\; she is w anton and knows no shame. She sits at the door of her house\, she takes a seat on the high places of the town\, calling to those who pass by\, who a re going straight on their way\, "Whoever is simple\, let him turn in here !" And to him who is without sense she says\, "Stolen water is sweet\, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant." But he does not know that the dead ar e there\, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260311 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260312 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132947 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132948 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Theophanes the Confessor DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/12/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Theophanes the Confessor\; Symeon the New Theologian\; Gregory Dialog os\, Bishop of Rome\; Phineas\, grandson of Prophet Aaron\; Paul Aurelian\ , Bishop of Brittany\n\nStrict Fast\n\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 11:10 -12:2 \nThus says the LORD: In that day the root of Jesse shall stand as an ensign to the peoples\; him shall the nations seek\, and his dwellings shall be glorious.\n\nIn that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a seco nd time to recover the remnant which is left of his people\, from Assyria\ , from Egypt\, from Pathros\, from Ethiopia\, from Elam\, from Shinar\, fr om Hamath\, and from the coastlands of the sea. He will raise an ensign fo r the nations\, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel\, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. The jealousy of Eph raim shall depart\, and those who harass Judah shall be cut off\; Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah\, and Judah shall not harass Ephraim. But th ey shall swoop down upon the shoulder of the Philistines in the west\, and together they shall plunder the people of the east. They shall put forth their hand against Edom and Moab\, and the Ammonites shall obey them. And the LORD will utterly destroy the tongue of the sea of Egypt\; and will wa ve his hand over the River with his scorching wind\, and smite it into sev en channels that men may cross dryshod. And there will be a highway from A ssyria for the remnant which is left of his people\, as there was for Isra el when they came up from the land of Egypt.\n\nYou will say in that day: "I will give thanks to thee\, O LORD\, for though thou wast angry with me\ , thy anger turned away\, and thou didst comfort me. "Behold\, God is my s alvation\; I will trust\, and will not be afraid\; for the LORD GOD is my strength and my song\, and he has become my salvation."\n\nOld Testament R eading: Genesis 7:11-8:3 \nIn the six hundredth year of Noah's life\, in the second month\, on the seventeenth day of the month\, on that day all t he fountains of the great deep burst forth\, and the windows of the heaven s were opened. And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights. O n the very same day Noah and his sons\, Shem and Ham and Japheth\, and Noa h's wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark\, they and every beast according to its kind\, and all the cattle according to th eir kinds\, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth according to its kind\, and every bird according to its kind\, every bird of every sor t. They went into the ark with Noah\, two and two of all flesh in which th ere was the breath of life. And they that entered\, male and female of all flesh\, went in as God had commanded him\; and the LORD shut him in.\n\nT he flood continued forty days upon the earth\; and the waters increased\, and bore up the ark\, and it rose high above the earth. The waters prevail ed and increased greatly upon the earth\; and the ark floated on the face of the waters. And the waters prevailed so mightily upon the earth that al l the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered\; the waters prev ailed above the mountains\, covering them fifteen cubits deep. And all fle sh died that moved upon the earth\, birds\, cattle\, beasts\, all swarming creatures that swarm upon the earth\, and every man\; everything on the d ry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died. He blotted out ever y living thing that was upon the face of the ground\, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the air\; they were blotted out from the eart h. Only Noah was left\, and those that were with him in the ark. And the w aters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days. But God remembere d Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark . And God made a wind blow over the earth\, and the waters subsided\; the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed\, the rai n from the heavens was restrained\, and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters had abated. \n\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 10:1-22 \nA wise son makes a glad fat her\, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother. Treasures gained by wic kedness do not profit\, but righteousness delivers from death. The LORD do es not let the righteous go hungry\, but he thwarts the craving of the wic ked. A slack hand causes poverty\, but the hand of the diligent makes rich . A son who gathers in summer is prudent\, but a son who sleeps in harvest brings shame. Blessings are on the head of the righteous\, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence. The memory of the righteous is a blessing \, but the name of the wicked will rot. The wise of heart will heed comman dments\, but a prating fool will come to ruin. He who walks in integrity w alks securely\, but he who perverts his ways will be found out. He who win ks the eye causes trouble\, but he who boldly reproves makes peace. The mo uth of the righteous is a fountain of life\, but the mouth of the wicked c onceals violence. Hatred stirs up strife\, but love covers all offenses. O n the lips of him who has understanding wisdom is found\, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks sense. Wise men lay up knowledge\, but the babb ling of a fool brings ruin near. A rich man's wealth is his strong city\; the poverty of the poor is their ruin. The wage of the righteous leads to life\, the gain of the wicked to sin. He who heeds instruction is on the p ath to life\, but he who rejects reproof goes astray. He who conceals hatr ed has lying lips\, and he who utters slander is a fool. When words are ma ny\, transgression is not lacking\, but he who restrains his lips is prude nt. The tongue of the righteous is choice silver\; the mind of the wicked is of little worth. The lips of the righteous feed many\, but fools die fo r lack of sense. The blessing of the LORD makes rich\, and he adds no sorr ow with it.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260312 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260313 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132948 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2056579890 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Akathist Service CATEGORIES:Services CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260313T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260313T183000 CREATED:20260308T232744Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2056579890 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132949 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Removal of the relics of Nicephorus\, Patriarch of Constanti nople DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/13/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Removal of the relics of Nicephorus\, Patriarch of Constantinople\; P ouplios the Martyr\, Bishop of Athens\; Christina the Martyr of Persia\; G erald\, Bishop of Mayo\n\nStrict Fast\n\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 13: 2-13 \nOn a bare hill raise a signal\, cry aloud to them\; wave the hand for them to enter the gates of the nobles. I myself have commanded my cons ecrated ones\, have summoned my mighty men to execute my anger\, my proudl y exulting ones.\n\nHark\, a tumult on the mountains as of a great multitu de! Hark\, an uproar of kingdoms\, of nations gathering together! The LORD of hosts is mustering a host for battle. They come from a distant land\, from the end of the heavens\, the LORD and the weapons of his indignation\ , to destroy the whole earth.\n\nWail\, for the day of the LORD is near\; as destruction from the Almighty it will come! Therefore all hands will be feeble\, and every man's heart will melt\, and they will be dismayed. Pan gs and agony will seize them\; they will be in anguish like a woman in tra vail. They will look aghast at one another\; their faces will be aflame.\n \nBehold\, the day of the LORD comes\, cruel\, with wrath and fierce anger \, to make the earth a desolation and to destroy its sinners from it. For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their ligh t\; the sun will be dark at its rising and the moon will not shed its ligh t. I will punish the world for its evil\, and the wicked for their iniquit y\; I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant\, and lay low the haugh tiness of the ruthless. I will make men more rare than fine gold\, and man kind than the gold of Ophir. Therefore I will make the heavens tremble\, a nd the earth will be shaken out of its place\, at the wrath of the LORD of hosts in the day of his fierce anger.\n\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 8 :4-21 \nAnd in the seventh month\, on the seventeenth day of the month\, the ark came to rest upon the mountains of Ararat. And the waters continue d to abate until the tenth month\; in the tenth month\, on the first day o f the month\, the tops of the mountains were seen.\n\nAt the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made\, and sent forth a raven\; and it went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the e arth. Then he sent forth a dove from him\, to see if the waters had subsid ed from the face of the ground\; but the dove found no place to set her fo ot\, and she returned to him to the ark\, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put forth his hand and took her and brough t her into the ark with him. He waited another seven days\, and again he s ent forth the dove out of the ark\; and the dove came back to him in the e vening\, and lo\, in her mouth a freshly plucked olive leaf\; so Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth. Then he waited another seven days\, and sent forth the dove\; and she did not return to him any more.\ n\nIn the six hundred and first year\, in the first month\, the first day of the month\, the waters were dried from off the earth\; and Noah removed the covering of the ark\, and looked\, and behold\, the face of the groun d was dry. In the second month\, on the twenty-seventh day of the month\, the earth was dry. Then God said to Noah\, "Go forth from the ark\, you an d your wife\, and your sons and your sons' wives with you. Bring forth wit h you every living thing that is with you of all flesh - birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth - that they may breed a bundantly on the earth\, and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth." So Noah went forth\, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him. And every beast\, every creeping thing\, and every bird\, everything that moves upon the earth\, went forth by families out of the ark.\n\nThen Noah built an altar to the LORD\, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird\, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And when the LORD s melled the pleasing odor\, the LORD said in his heart\, "I will never agai n curse the ground because of man\, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth\; neither will I ever again destroy every living creat ure as I have done."\n\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 10:31-11:12 \nThe mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom\, but the perverse tongue will be cut off. The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable\, but the m outh of the wicked\, what is perverse. A false balance is an abomination t o the LORD\, but a just weight is his delight. When pride comes\, then com es disgrace\; but with the humble is wisdom. The integrity of the upright guides them\, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them. Riches do not profit in the day of wrath\, but righteousness delivers from death . The righteousness of the blameless keeps his way straight\, but the wick ed falls by his own wickedness. The righteousness of the upright delivers them\, but the treacherous are taken captive by their lust. When the wicke d dies\, his hope perishes\, and the expectation of the godless comes to n ought. The righteous is delivered from trouble\, and the wicked gets into it instead. With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor\, bu t by knowledge the righteous are delivered. When it goes well with the rig hteous\, the city rejoices\; and when the wicked perish there are shouts o f gladness. By the blessing of the upright a city is exalted\, but it is o verthrown by the mouth of the wicked. He who belittles his neighbor lacks sense\, but a man of understanding remains silent.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260313 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260314 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132949 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132950 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 Third Saturday of Lent DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/14/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Third Saturday of Lent\; Benedict the Righteous of Nursia\; Euschemon the Confessor\, Bishop of Lampasakos\n\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\n \nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 10:32-38 \nBrethren\, recall the former days when\, after you were enlightened\, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings\, sometimes being publicly exposed to abuse and affliction\, and sometimes being partners with those so treated. For y ou had compassion on the prisoners\, and you joyfully accepted the plunder ing of your property\, since you knew that you yourselves had a better pos session and an abiding one. Therefore do not throw away your confidence\, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance\, so that you may do the will of God and receive what is promised. "For yet a little while\ , and the coming one shall come and shall not tarry\; but my righteous one shall live by faith."\n\nGospel Reading: Mark 2:14-17 \nAt that time\, a s Jesus passed on\, he saw Levi the son of Alphaios sitting at the tax off ice\, and he said to him\, "Follow me." And he rose and followed him. And as he sat at table in his house\, many tax collectors and sinners were sit ting with Jesus and his disciples\; for there were many who followed him. And the scribes of the Pharisees\, when they saw that he was eating with s inners and tax collectors\, said to his disciples\, "Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?" And when Jesus heard it\, he said to them\, " Those who are well have no need of a physician\, but those who are sick\; I came not to call the righteous\, but sinners."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260314 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260315 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132950 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132951 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 Sunday of the Holy Cross DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/15/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Sunday of the Holy Cross\; Agapius the Martyr &\; His Companions\; Manuel the New Martyr of Crete\; Holy Apostle Aristobulos of the Seventy\ , Bishop of Britain\n\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\n\nMatins Gospel Re ading: John 20:1-10 \nOn the first day of the week\, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early\, while it was still dark\, and saw that the stone had b een taken away from the tomb. So she ran\, and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple\, the one whom Jesus loved\, and said to them\, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb\, and we do not know where they have laid Him." Peter then came out with the other disciple\, and they went toward t he tomb. They both ran\, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached t he tomb first\; and stooping to look in\, he saw the linen cloths lying th ere\, but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came\, following him\, and we nt into the tomb\; he saw the linen cloths lying and the napkin\, which ha d been on His head\, not lying with the linen cloths\, but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple\, who reached the tomb first\, al so went in\, and he saw and believed\; for as yet they did not know the sc ripture\, that He must rise from the dead. Then the disciples went back to their homes.\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 4:14-16 \; 5:1-6 \nBRETHREN\, since we have a high priest who has passed through the heavens\, Jesus\, the Son of God\, let us hold fast our confession. Fo r we have not a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesse s\, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are\, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace\, that w e may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in rela tion to God\, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. He can deal gently w ith the ignorant and wayward\, since he himself is beset with weakness. Be cause of this he is bound to offer sacrifice for his own sins as well as f or those of the people. And one does not take the honor upon himself\, but he is called by God\, just as Aaron was. So also Christ did not exalt him self to be made a high priest\, but was appointed by him who said to him\, "Thou art my Son\, today I have begotten thee"\; as he says also in anoth er place\, "Thou art a priest for ever\, after the order of Melchizedek."\ n\nGospel Reading: Mark 8:34-38\; 9:1 \nThe Lord said: "If anyone wishes to come after me\, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow m e. For whoever would save his life will lose it\; and whoever loses his li fe for my sake and the gospel's will save it. For what does it profit a ma n\, to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? For what can a man give in return for his life? For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation\, of him will the Son of man also be asha med\, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels." And he said to them\, "Truly\, I say to you\, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God come with power." \n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260315 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260316 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132951 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2061640360 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Great Compline CATEGORIES:Services CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260316T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260316T193000 CREATED:20260316T200823Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2061640360 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132952 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Sabine the Martyr of Egypt DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/16/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Sabine the Martyr of Egypt\; Christodulus the Wonderworker of Patmos\ ; Aristovoulos\, Apostle of the 70\; Julian the Martyr\; Romanos the Hiero martyr of Parium\n\nStrict Fast\n\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 14:24-32 \nThe LORD of hosts has sworn: "As I have planned\, so shall it be\, and as I have purposed\, so shall it stand\, that I will break the Assyrian in my land\, and upon my mountains trample him under foot\; and his yoke sha ll depart from them\, and his burden from their shoulder." This is the pur pose that is purposed concerning the whole earth\; and this is the hand th at is stretched out over all the nations. For the LORD of hosts has purpos ed\, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out\, and who will turn it back? In the year that King Ahaz died came this oracle: "Rejoice not\, O Philistia\, all of you\, that the rod which smote you is broken\, for fr om the serpent's root will come forth an adder\, and its fruit will be a f lying serpent. And the first-born of the poor will feed\, and the needy li e down in safety\; but I will kill your root with famine\, and your remnan t I will slay. Wail\, O gate\; cry\, O city\; melt in fear\, O Philistia\, all of you! For smoke comes out of the north\, and there is no straggler in his ranks." What will one answer the messengers of the nation? "The LOR D has founded Zion\, and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge."\ n\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 8:21-9:7 \nAnd when the LORD smelled th e pleasing odor\, the LORD said in his heart\, "I will never again curse t he ground because of man\, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth\; neither will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done. While the earth remains\, seedtime and harvest\, cold and heat\ , summer and winter\, day and night\, shall not cease."\n\nAnd God blessed Noah and his sons\, and said to them\, "Be fruitful and multiply\, and fi ll the earth. The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every bea st of the earth\, and upon every bird of the air\, upon everything that cr eeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea\; into your hand they are d elivered. Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you\; and as I g ave you the green plants\, I give you everything. Only you shall not eat f lesh with its life\, that is\, its blood. For your lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning\; of every beast I will require it and of man\; of ev ery man's brother I will require the life of man. Whoever sheds the blood of man\, by man shall his blood be shed\; for God made man in his own imag e. And you\, be fruitful and multiply\, bring forth abundantly on the eart h and multiply in it."\n\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 11:19-12:6 \nHe who is steadfast in righteousness will live\, but he who pursues evil wil l die. Men of perverse mind are an abomination to the LORD\, but those of blameless ways are his delight. Be assured\, an evil man will not go unpun ished\, but those who are righteous will be delivered. Like a gold ring in a swine's snout is a beautiful woman without discretion. The desire of th e righteous ends only in good\; the expectation of the wicked in wrath. On e man gives freely\, yet grows all the richer\; another withholds what he should give\, and only suffers want. A liberal man will be enriched\, and one who waters will himself be watered. The people curse him who holds bac k grain\, but a blessing is on the head of him who sells it. He who dilige ntly seeks good seeks favor\, but evil comes to him who searches for it. H e who trusts in his riches will wither\, but the righteous will flourish l ike a green leaf. He who troubles his household will inherit wind\, and th e fool will be servant to the wise. The fruit of the righteous is a tree o f life\, but lawlessness takes away lives. If the righteous is requited on earth\, how much more the wicked and the sinner! Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge\, but he who hates reproof is stupid. A good man obtains favor from the LORD\, but a man of evil devices he condemns. A man is not established by wickedness\, but the root of the righteous will never be mo ved. A good wife is the crown of her husband\, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones. The thoughts of the righteous are just\; th e counsels of the wicked are treacherous. The words of the wicked lie in w ait for blood\, but the mouth of the upright delivers men.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260316 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260317 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132952 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132953 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Alexis the Man of God DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/17/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Alexis the Man of God\; Paul the Righteous Martyr\; Patrick the Enlig htener of Ireland\; Marinos the Martyr\; Theocteristos the Confessor\n\nSt rict Fast\n\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 25:1-9 \nO LORD\, thou art my God\; I will exalt thee\, I will praise thy name\; for thou hast done wond erful things\, plans formed of old\, faithful and sure. For thou hast made the city a heap\, the fortified city a ruin\; the palace of aliens is a c ity no more\, it will never be rebuilt. Therefore strong peoples will glor ify thee\; cities of ruthless nations will fear thee. For thou hast been a stronghold to the poor\, a stronghold to the needy in his distress\, a sh elter from the storm and a shade from the heat\; for the blast of the ruth less is like a storm against a wall\, like heat in a dry place. Thou dost subdue the noise of the aliens\; as heat by the shade of a cloud\, so the song of the ruthless is stilled.\n\nOn this mountain the LORD of hosts wil l make for all peoples a feast of fat things\, a feast of wine on the lees \, of fat things full of marrow\, of wine on the lees well refined. And he will destroy on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples\ , the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death for e ver\, and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces\, and the repro ach of his people he will take away from all the earth\; for the LORD has spoken. It will be said on that day\, "Lo\, this is our God\; we have wait ed for him\, that he might save us. This is the LORD\; we have waited for him\; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation."\n\nOld Testament Readi ng: Genesis 9:8-17 \nThen God said to Noah and to his sons with him\, "Be hold\, I establish my covenant with you and your descendants after you\, a nd with every living creature that is with you\, the birds\, the cattle\, and every beast of the earth with you\, as many as came out of the ark. I establish my covenant with you\, that never again shall all flesh be cut o ff by the waters of a flood\, and never again shall there be a flood to de stroy the earth." And God said\, "This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you\, for all future generations: I set my bow in the cloud\, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I bring clouds over the ea rth and the bow is seen in the clouds\, I will remember my covenant which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh\; and the wat ers shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. When the bow is in the clouds\, I will look upon it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth ." God said to Noah\, "This is the sign of the covenant which I have estab lished between me and all flesh that is upon the earth."\n\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 12:8-22 \nA man is commended according to his good sens e\, but one of perverse mind is despised. Better is a man of humble standi ng who works for himself than one who plays the great man but lacks bread. A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast\, but the mercy of t he wicked is cruel. He who tills his land will have plenty of bread\, but he who follows worthless pursuits has no sense. The strong tower of the wi cked comes to ruin\, but the root of the righteous stands firm. An evil ma n is ensnared by the transgression of his lips\, but the righteous escapes from trouble. From the fruit of his words a man is satisfied with good\, and the work of a man's hand comes back to him. The way of a fool is right in his own eyes\, but a wise man listens to advice. The vexation of a foo l is known at once\, but the prudent man ignores an insult. He who speaks the truth gives honest evidence\, but a false witness utters deceit. There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts\, but the tongue of the wi se brings healing. Truthful lips endure for ever\, but a lying tongue is b ut for a moment. Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil\, but tho se who plan good have joy. No ill befalls the righteous\, but the wicked a re filled with trouble. Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD\, but th ose who act faithfully are his delight.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260317 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260318 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132953 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132954 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Cyril\, Patriarch of Jerusalem DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/18/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Cyril\, Patriarch of Jerusalem\; Trophimos &\; Eukarpion\, Monk-ma rtyrs of Nicomedea\; Edward the Martyr\, King of England\n\nStrict Fast\n\ nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 26:21-27:9 \nFor behold\, the LORD is comi ng forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity\, and the earth will disclose the blood shed upon her\, and will no more cover her slain. In that day the LORD with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent\, Leviathan the tw isting serpent\, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.\n\nIn tha t day: "A pleasant vineyard\, sing of it! I\, the LORD\, am its keeper\; e very moment I water it. Lest any one harm it\, I guard it night and day\; I have no wrath. Would that I had thorns and briers to battle! I would set out against them\, I would burn them up together. Or let them lay hold of my protection\, let them make peace with me\, let them make peace with me ."\n\nIn days to come Jacob shall take root\, Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots\, and fill the whole world with fruit.\n\nHas he smitten the m as he smote those who smote them? Or have they been slain as their slaye rs were slain? Measure by measure\, by exile thou didst contend with them\ ; he removed them with his fierce blast in the day of the east wind. There fore by this the guilt of Jacob will be expiated\, and this will be the fu ll fruit of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the stones of the al tars like chalkstones crushed to pieces\, no Asherim or incense altars wil l remain standing.\n\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 9:18-10:1 \nThe sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem\, Ham\, and Japheth. Ham wa s the father of Canaan. These three were the sons of Noah\; and from these the whole earth was peopled.\n\nNoah was the first tiller of the soil. He planted a vineyard\; and he drank of the wine\, and became drunk\, and la y uncovered in his tent. And Ham\, the father of Canaan\, saw the nakednes s of his father\, and told his two brothers outside. Then Shem and Japheth took a garment\, laid it upon both their shoulders\, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father\; their faces were turned away\, and they did not see their father's nakedness. When Noah awoke from his w ine and knew what his youngest son had done to him\, he said\, "Cursed be Canaan\; a slave of slaves shall he be to his brothers." He also said\, "B lessed by the LORD my God be Shem\; and let Canaan be his slave. God enlar ge Japheth\, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem\; and let Canaan be hi s slave." After the flood Noah lived three hundred and fifty years. All th e days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years\; and he died. These are the generations of the sons of Noah\, Shem\, Ham\, and Japheth\; sons were born to them after the flood.\n\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 12:23-13 :9 \nA prudent man conceals his knowledge\, but fools proclaim their foll y. The hand of the diligent will rule\, while the slothful will be put to forced labor. Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down\, but a good word m akes him glad. A righteous man turns away from evil\, but the way of the w icked leads them astray. A slothful man will not catch his prey\, but the diligent man will get precious wealth. In the path of righteousness is lif e\, but the way of error leads to death. A wise son hears his father's ins truction\, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke. From the fruit of his mouth a good man eats good\, but the desire of the treacherous is for viol ence. He who guards his mouth preserves his life\; he who opens wide his l ips comes to ruin. The soul of the sluggard craves\, and gets nothing\, wh ile the soul of the diligent is richly supplied. A righteous man hates fal sehood\, but a wicked man acts shamefully and disgracefully. Righteousness guards him whose way is upright\, but sin overthrows the wicked. One man pretends to be rich\, yet has nothing\; another pretends to be poor\, yet has great wealth. The ransom of a man's life is his wealth\, but a poor ma n has no means of redemption. The light of the righteous rejoices\, but th e lamp of the wicked will be put out.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260318 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260319 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132954 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2061640525 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Presanctified Liturgy @ 6:30 PM \n• Lenten Community Meal (No Cha rge) \nfollowing Presanctified CATEGORIES:Services CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260318T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260318T203000 CREATED:20260316T200853Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260319T233223Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2061640525 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132955 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ The Holy Martyrs Chrysanthus and Daria DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/19/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: The Holy Martyrs Chrysanthus and Daria\; Demetrios the New Martyr\n\n Strict Fast\n\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 28:14-22 \nThus says the LOR D\, you scoffers\, who rule this people in Jerusalem! Because you have sai d\, "We have made a covenant with death\, and with Sheol we have an agreem ent\; when the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not come to us\ ; for we have made lies our refuge\, and in falsehood we have taken shelte r"\; therefore thus says the Lord GOD\, "Behold\, I am laying in Zion for a foundation a stone\, a tested stone\, a precious cornerstone\, of a sure foundation: 'He who believes will not be in haste.' And I will make justi ce the line\, and righteousness the plummet\; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies\, and waters will overwhelm the shelter." Then your covena nt with death will be annulled\, and your agreement with Sheol will not st and\; when the overwhelming scourge passes through you will be beaten down by it. As often as it passes through it will take you\; for morning by mo rning it will pass through\, by day and by night\; and it will be sheer te rror to understand the message. For the bed is too short to stretch onesel f on it\, and the covering too narrow to wrap oneself in it. For the LORD will rise up as on Mount Perazim\, he will be wroth as in the valley of Gi beon\; to do his deed - strange is his deed! and to work his work - alien is his work! Now therefore do not scoff\, lest your bonds be made strong\; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord GOD of hosts upon the whole land.\n\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 10:32-11:9 \nThese are the families of the sons of Noah\, according to their genealogies\, in the ir nations\; and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after t he flood. Now the whole earth had one language and few words. And as men m igrated from the east\, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settl ed there. And they said to one another\, "Come\, let us make bricks\, and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone\, and bitumen for mort ar. Then they said\, "Come\, let us build ourselves a city\, and a tower w ith its top in the heavens\, and let us make a name for ourselves\, lest w e be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower\, which the sons of men had built. And the LORD said\, "Behold\, they are one people\, and they have all one lan guage\; and this is only the beginning of what they will do\; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come\, let us go down\, and there confuse their language\, that they may not understand one another's speech." So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth\, and they left off building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel\, because there the LORD confused the language of a ll the earth\; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.\n\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 13:19-14:6 \nA desi re fulfilled is sweet to the soul\; but to turn away from evil is an abomi nation to fools. He who walks with wise men becomes wise\, but the compani on of fools will suffer harm. Misfortune pursues sinners\, but prosperity rewards the righteous. A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children\, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous. The fallo w ground of the poor yields much food\, but it is swept away through injus tice. He who spares the rod hates his son\, but he who loves him is dilige nt to discipline him. The righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite\, b ut the belly of the wicked suffers want. Wisdom builds her house\, but fol ly with her own hands tears it down. He who walks in uprightness fears the LORD\, but he who is devious in his ways despises him. The talk of a fool is a rod for his back\, but the lips of the wise will preserve them. Wher e there are no oxen\, there is no grain\; but abundant crops come by the s trength of the ox. A faithful witness does not lie\, but a false witness b reathes out lies. A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain\, but knowledge is easy f or a man of understanding.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260319 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260320 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132955 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2061640642 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Akathist Service CATEGORIES:Services CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260320T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260320T183000 CREATED:20260316T200919Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2061640642 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132956 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Righteous Fathers slain at the Monastery of St. Savas DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/20/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Righteous Fathers slain at the Monastery of St. Savas\; Myron the New Martyr of Crete\; Cuthbert the Wonderworker\, Bishop of Lindisfarne\; Pho tini the Samaritan Woman\n\nStrict Fast\n\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 2 9:13-23 \nAnd the Lord said: "Because this people draw near with their mo uth and honor me with their lips\, while their hearts are far from me\, an d their fear of me is a commandment of men learned by rote\; therefore\, b ehold\, I will again do marvelous things with this people\, wonderful and marvelous\; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish\, and the discer nment of their discerning men shall be hid." Woe to those who hide deep fr om the LORD their counsel\, whose deeds are in the dark\, and who say\, "W ho sees us? Who knows us?" You turn things upside down! Shall the potter b e regarded as the clay\; that the thing made should say of its maker\, "He did not make me"\; or the thing formed say of him who formed it\, "He has no understanding"?\n\nIs it not yet a very little while until Lebanon sha ll be turned into a fruitful field\, and the fruitful field shall be regar ded as a forest? In that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book\, and out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see. The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the LORD\, and the poor among men shall exult i n the Holy One of Israel. For the ruthless shall come to nought and the sc offer cease\, and all who watch to do evil shall be cut off\, who by a wor d make a man out to be an offender\, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate\, and with an empty plea turn aside him who is in the right.\n \nTherefore thus says the LORD\, who redeemed Abraham\, concerning the hou se of Jacob: "Jacob shall no more be ashamed\, no more shall his face grow pale. For when he sees his children\, the work of my hands\, in his midst \, they will sanctify my name\; they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob\, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.\n\nOld Testament Reading: Gen esis 12:1-7 \nNow the LORD said to Abram\, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. And I w ill make of you a great nation\, and I will bless you\, and make your name great\, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you\ , and him who curses you I will curse\; and by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves."\n\nSo Abram went\, as the LORD had told hi m\; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he depart ed from Haran. And Abram took Sarai his wife\, and Lot his brother's son\, and all their possessions which they had gathered\, and the persons that they had gotten in Haran\; and they set forth to go to the land of Canaan. When they had come to the land of Canaan\, Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem\, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. Then the LORD appeared to Abram\, and said\, "To your d escendants I will give this land." So he built there an altar to the LORD\ , who had appeared to him.\n\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 14:15-26 \n The simple believes everything\, but the prudent looks where he is going. A wise man is cautious and turns away from evil\, but a fool throws off re straint and is careless. A man of quick temper acts foolishly\, but a man of discretion is patient. The simple acquire folly\, but the prudent are c rowned with knowledge. The evil bow down before the good\, the wicked at t he gates of the righteous. The poor is disliked even by his neighbor\, but the rich has many friends. He who despises his neighbor is a sinner\, but happy is he who is kind to the poor. Do they not err that devise evil? Th ose who devise good meet loyalty and faithfulness. In all toil there is pr ofit\, but mere talk tends only to want. The crown of the wise is their wi sdom\, but folly is the garland of fools. A truthful witness saves lives\, but one who utters lies is a betrayer. In the fear of the LORD one has st rong confidence\, and his children will have a refuge.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260320 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260321 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132956 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132957 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 Fourth Saturday of Lent DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/21/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Fourth Saturday of Lent\; James the Confessor\; Thomas I\, Patriarch of Constantinople\; Philemon and Domninos\n\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowe d)\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 6:9-12 \nBRETHREN \, we feel sure of better things that belong to salvation. For God is not so unjust as to overlook your work and the love which you showed for his s ake in serving the saints\, as you still do. And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness in realizing the full assurance of hope unti l the end\, so that you may not be sluggish\, but imitators of those who t hrough faith and patience inherit the promises.\n\nGospel Reading: Mark 7: 31-37 \nAt that time\, Jesus returned from the region of Tyre\, and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee\, through the region of Dekapolis. And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had an impediment in his speec h\; and they besought him to lay his hand upon him. And taking him aside f rom the multitude privately\, he put his fingers into his ears\, and he sp at and touched his tongue\; and looking up to heaven\, he sighed\, and sai d to him\, "Ephphatha\," that is\, "Be opened." And his ears were opened\, his tongue was released\, and he spoke plainly. And he charged them to te ll no one\; but the more he charged them\, the more zealously they proclai med it. And they were astonished beyond measure\, saying\, "He has done al l things well: he even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260321 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260322 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132957 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132958 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 Sunday of St. John Climacus DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/22/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Sunday of St. John Climacus\; Basil the Holy Martyr of Ancyra\; Kalli niki &\; Vassilisa the Martyrs\; Euthemios the New Martyr\n\nFast Day ( Wine and Oil Allowed)\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: John 20:11-18 \nAt that t ime\, Mary stood weeping outside the tomb\, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb\, and she saw two angels in white\, sitting where the body of Jesus has lain\, one at the head and one at the feet. They said to her\, "Woman\, why are you weeping?" She said to them\, "Because they hav e taken away my Lord\, and I do not know where they have laid Him." Saying this\, she turned round and saw Jesus standing\, but she did not know tha t it was Jesus. Jesus said to her\, "Woman\, why are you weeping? Whom do you seek?" Supposing Him to be the gardener\, she said to Him\, "Sir\, if you have carried Him away\, tell me where you have laid Him\, and I will t ake Him away." Jesus said to her\, "Mary." She turned and said to Him in H ebrew\, "Rabboni\," which means Teacher. Jesus said to her\, "Do not touch Me\, for I have not yet ascended to the Father\; but go to My brethren an d say to them\, I am ascending to My Father and your Father\, to My God an d your God." Mary Magdalene went and said to the disciples\, "I have seen the Lord\," and she told them that He had said these things to her.\n\nEpi stle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 6:13-20 \nBRETHREN\, when God made a promise to Abraham\, since he had no one greater by whom to swe ar\, he swore to himself\, saying\, "Surely I will bless you and multiply you." And thus Abraham\, having patiently endured\, obtained the promise. Men indeed swear by a greater than themselves\, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation. So when God desired to show more convin cingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpo se\, he interposed with an oath\, so that through two unchangeable things\ , in which it is impossible that God should prove false\, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before u s. We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul\, a hope that e nters into the inner shrine behind the curtain\, where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf\, having become a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.\n\nGospel Reading: Mark 9:17-31 \nAt that time\, a man came to Jesus kneeling and saying: "Teacher\, I brought my son to you \, for he has a dumb spirit\; and wherever it seizes him it dashes him dow n\; and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid\; and I asked your disciples to cast it out\, and they were not able." And he answered them\ , "O faithless generation\, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him to me." And they brought the boy to him\; and wh en the spirit saw him\, immediately it convulsed the boy\, and he fell on the ground and rolled about\, foaming at the mouth. And Jesus asked his fa ther\, "How long has he had this?" And he said\, "From childhood. And it h as often cast him into the fire and into the water\, to destroy him\; but if you can do anything\, have pity on us and help us." And Jesus said to h im\, "If you can! All things are possible to him who believes." Immediatel y the father of the child cried out and said\, "I believe\; help my unbeli ef!" And when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together\, he rebuked th e unclean spirit\, saying to it\, "You dumb and deaf spirit\, I command yo u\, come out of him\, and never enter him again." And after crying out and convulsing him terribly\, it came out\, and the boy was like a corpse\; s o that most of them said\, "He is dead." But Jesus took him by the hand an d lifted him up\, and he arose. And when he had entered the house\, his di sciples asked him privately\, "Why could we not cast it out?" And he said to them\, "This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer and fasti ng." They went on from there and passed through Galilee. And he would not have any one know it\; for he was teaching his disciples\, saying to them\ , "The Son of man will be delivered into the hands of men\, and they will kill him\; and when he is killed\, after three days he will rise."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260322 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260323 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132958 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132960 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ The Holy Righteous Martyr Nicon and His 199 Disciples DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/23/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: The Holy Righteous Martyr Nicon and His 199 Disciples\; Anatolios &am p\; Protoleon the Martyrs converted by the martyrdom of St. George\; Luke the New Martyr of Mytilene\n\nStrict Fast\n\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 37:33-38:6 \n"Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyri a: He shall not come into this city\, or shoot an arrow there\, or come be fore it with a shield\, or cast up a siege mound against it. By the way th at he came\, by the same he shall return\, and he shall not come into this city\, says the LORD. For I will defend this city to save it\, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David." And the angel of the LORD wen t forth\, and slew a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the A ssyrians\; and when men arose early in the morning\, behold\, these were a ll dead bodies. Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed\, and went home and dwelt at Nineveh. And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god\, Adrammelech and Sharezer\, his sons\, slew him with the sword\, and escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his st ead.\n\nIn those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him\, and said to him\, "Th us says the LORD: Set your house in order\; for you shall die\, you shall not recover." Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall\, and prayed to th e LORD\, and said\, "Remember now\, O LORD\, I beseech thee\, how I have w alked before thee in faithfulness and with a whole heart\, and have done w hat is good in thy sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. Then the word of th e LORD came to Isaiah: "Go and say to Hezekiah\, Thus says the LORD\, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer\, I have seen your tear s\; behold\, I will add fifteen years to your life. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria\, and defend this city.\ n\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 13:12-18 \nAbram dwelt in the land of C anaan\, while Lot dwelt among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom. Now the men of Sodom were wicked\, great sinners against the LORD.\n\nThe LORD said to Abram\, after Lot had separated from him\, " Lift up your eyes\, and look from the place where you are\, northward and southward and eastward and westward\; for all the land which you see I wil l give to you and to your descendants for ever. I will make your descendan ts as the dust of the earth\; so that if one can count the dust of the ear th\, your descendants also can be counted. Arise\, walk through the length and the breadth of the land\, for I will give it to you." So Abram moved his tent\, and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre\, which are at Hebron\; and there he built an altar to the LORD.\n\nOld Testament Reading: Prover bs 14:27-15:4 \nThe fear of the LORD is a fountain of life\, that one may avoid the snares of death. In a multitude of people is the glory of a kin g\, but without people a prince is ruined. He who is slow to anger has gre at understanding\, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly. A tranquil mind gives life to the flesh\, but passion makes the bones rot. He who opp resses a poor man insults his Maker\, but he who is kind to the needy hono rs him. The wicked is overthrown through his evil-doing\, but the righteou s finds refuge through his integrity. Wisdom abides in the mind of a man o f understanding\, but it is not known in the heart of fools. Righteousness exalts a nation\, but sin is a reproach to any people. A servant who deal s wisely has the king's favor\, but his wrath falls on one who acts shamef ully. A soft answer turns away wrath\, but a harsh word stirs up anger. Th e tongue of the wise dispenses knowledge\, but the mouths of fools pour ou t folly. The eyes of the LORD are in every place\, keeping watch on the ev il and the good. A gentle tongue is a tree of life\, but perverseness in i t breaks the spirit.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260323 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260324 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132960 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132962 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Forefeast of the Annunciation of the Theotokos DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/24/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Forefeast of the Annunciation of the Theotokos\; Righteous Artemon\, Bishop of Seleucia\; Our Holy Father Theonas\, Archbishop of Thessolonica\ ; Zachariah the Recluse\n\nStrict Fast\n\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 40 :18-31 \nThus says the LORD: To whom then will you liken God\, or what li keness compare with him? The idol! a workman casts it\, and a goldsmith ov erlays it with gold\, and casts for it silver chains. He who is impoverish ed chooses for an offering wood that will not rot\; he seeks out a skilful craftsman to set up an image that will not move.\n\nHave you not known? H ave you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you n ot understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he who sits above t he circle of the earth\, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers\; who s tretches out the heavens like a curtain\, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in\; who brings princes to nought\, and makes the rulers of the eart h as nothing.\n\nScarcely are they planted\, scarcely sown\, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth\, when he blows upon them\, and they wi ther\, and the tempest carries them off like stubble.\n\nTo whom then will you compare me\, that I should be like him? Says the Holy One. Lift up yo ur eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host b y number\, calling them all by name\; by the greatness of his might\, and because he is strong in power not one is missing.\n\nWhy do you say\, O Ja cob\, and speak\, O Israel\, "My way is hid from the LORD\, and my right i s disregarded by my God"? Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God\, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does no t faint or grow weary\, his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint\, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even you ths shall faint and be weary\, and young men shall fall exhausted\; but th ey who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength\, they shall mount up with wings like eagles\, they shall run and not be weary\, they shall walk and not faint.\n\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 15:1-15 \nAfter these t hings the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision\, "Fear not\, Abram\, I am your shield\; your reward shall be very great." But Abram said\, "O Lord GOD\, what wilt thou give me\, for I continue childless\, and the hei r of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?" And Abram said\, "Behold\, thou has t given me no offspring\; and a slave born in my house will be my heir." A nd behold\, the word of the LORD came to him\, "This man shall not be your heir\; your own son shall be your heir." And he brought him outside and s aid\, "Look toward heaven\, and number the stars\, if you are able to numb er them." Then he said to him\, "So shall your descendants be." And he bel ieved the LORD\; and he reckoned it to him as righteousness.\n\nAnd he sai d to him\, "I am the LORD who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans\, to gi ve you this land to possess." But he said\, "O Lord GOD\, how am I to know that I shall possess it?" He said to him\, "Bring me a heifer three years old\, a she-goat three years old\, a ram three years old\, a turtledove\, and a young pigeon." And he brought him all these\, cut them in two\, and laid each half over against the other\; but he did not cut the birds in t wo. And when birds of prey came down upon the carcasses\, Abram drove them away.\n\nAs the sun was going down\, a deep sleep fell on Abram\; and lo\ , a dread and great darkness fell upon him. Then the LORD said to Abram\, "Know of a surety that your descendants will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs\, and will be slaves there\, and they will be oppressed for four hundred years\; but I will bring judgment on the nation which they se rve\, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions. As for you rself\, you shall go to your fathers in peace\; you shall be buried in a g ood old age.\n\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 15:7-19 \nThe lips of the wise spread knowledge\; not so the minds of fools. The sacrifice of the w icked is an abomination to the LORD\, but the prayer of the upright is his delight. The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD\, but he lov es him who pursues righteousness. There is severe discipline for him who f orsakes the way\; he who hates reproof will die. Sheol and Abaddon lie ope n before the LORD\, how much more the hearts of men! A scoffer does not li ke to be reproved\; he will not go to the wise. A glad heart makes a cheer ful countenance\, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken. The mind of him who has understanding seeks knowledge\, but the mouths of fools feed on folly. All the days of the afflicted are evil\, but a cheerful heart ha s a continual feast. Better is a little with the fear of the LORD than gre at treasure and trouble with it. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it. A hot-tempered man stirs up strife\, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention. The way of a sluggard is o vergrown with thorns\, but the path of the upright is a level highway.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260324 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260325 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132962 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2063866781 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:FEAST OF THE ANNUNCIATION - Orthros followed by Liturgy CATEGORIES:Services CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T113000 CREATED:20260319T225644Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260319T225655Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2063866781 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2063867201 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Great Vespers for Leavetaking of \nAnnunciation followed by Lenten Community Meal (No Charge) CATEGORIES:Church Events,Services CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T193000 CREATED:20260319T225745Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2063867201 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132963 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🐟 Annunciation of the Theotokos DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/25/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Annunciation of the Theotokos\n\nFast Day (Fish Allowed)\n\nMatins Go spel Reading: Luke 1:39-49\, 56 \nIn those days\, Mary arose and went wit h haste into the hill country\, to a city of Judah\, and she entered the h ouse of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth. And when Elizabeth heard the gree ting of Mary\, the babe leaped in her womb\; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and she exclaimed with a loud cry\, "Blessed are you amon g women\, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! And why is this granted m e\, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For behold\, when the vo ice of your greeting came to my ears\, the babe in my womb leaped for joy. And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord."\n\nAnd Mary said\, "My soul magnifies t he Lord\, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior\, for he has regarded th e low estate of his handmaiden. For behold\, henceforth all generations wi ll call me blessed\; for he who is mighty has done great things for me\, a nd holy is his name." And Mary remained with her about three months\, and returned to her home.\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 2:11-18 \nBRETHREN\, he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified have all one origin. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brethren\, say ing\, "I will proclaim thy name to my brethren\, in the midst of the congr egation I will praise thee." And again\, "I will put my trust in him." And again\, "Here am I\, and the children God has given me. Since therefore t he children share in flesh and blood\, he himself likewise partook of the same nature\, that through death he might destroy him who has the power of death\, that is\, the devil\, and deliver all those who through fear of d eath were subject to lifelong bondage. For surely it is not with angels th at he is concerned but with the descendants of Abraham. Therefore he had t o be made like his brethren in every respect\, so that he might become a m erciful and faithful high priest in the service of God\, to make expiation for the sins of the people. For because he himself has suffered and been tempted\, he is able to help those who are tempted.\n\nGospel Reading: Luk e 1:24-38 \nIn those days\, Elizabeth the wife of Zacharias conceived and for five months she hid herself\, saying\, "Thus the Lord had done to me in the days when he looked on me\, to take away my reproach among men." In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth\, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph\, of the house of David\; and the virgin's name was Mary. And he came to her a nd said\, "Hail\, O favored one\, the Lord is with you! Blessed are you am ong women!" But she was greatly troubled at the saying\, and considered in her mind what sort of greeting this might be. And the angel said to her\, "Do not be afraid\, Mary\, for you have found favor with God. And behold\ , you will conceive in your womb and bear a son\, and you shall call his n ame Jesus. He will be great\, and will be called the Son of the Most High\ ; and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David\, and h e will reign over the house of Jacob for ever\; and of his kingdom there w ill be no end." And Mary said to the angel\, "How shall this be\, since I have no husband?" And the angel said to her\, "The Holy Spirit will come u pon you\, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you\; therefore t he child to be born will be called holy\, the Son of God.\n\nAnd behold\, your kinswoman Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son\; and thi s is the sixth month with her who was called barren. For with God nothing will be impossible." And Mary said\, "Behold\, I am the handmaid of the Lo rd\; let it be to me according to your word." And the angel departed from her.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260325 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260326 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132963 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132964 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 5th Thursday of Lent: The Great Canon of Saint Andrew of Crete DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/26/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 5th Thursday of Lent: The Great Canon of Saint Andrew of Crete\; Syna xis in honor of the Archangel Gabriel\; 26 Martyrs in Crimea\; Irenaeus th e Hieromartyr of Hungary\n\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\n\nOld Testame nt Reading: Isaiah 42:5-16 \nThus says God\, the LORD\, who created the h eavens and stretched them out\, who spread forth the earth and what comes from it\, who gives breath to the people upon it and spirit to those who w alk in it: "I am the LORD\, I have called you in righteousness\, I have ta ken you by the hand and kept you\; I have given you as a covenant to the p eople\, a light to the nations\, to open the eyes that are blind\, to brin g out the prisoners from the dungeon\, from the prison those who sit in da rkness. I am the LORD\, that is my name\; my glory I give to no other\, no r my praise to graven images. Behold\, the former things have come to pass \, and new things I now declare\; before they spring forth I tell you of t hem."\n\nSing to the LORD a new song\, his praise from the end of the eart h! Let the sea roar and all that fills it\, the coastlands and their inhab itants. Let the desert and its cities lift up their voice\, the villages t hat Kedar inhabits\; let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy\, let them s hout from the top of the mountains. Let them give glory to the LORD\, and declare his praise in the coastlands. The LORD goes forth like a mighty ma n\, like a man of war he stirs up his fury\; he cries out\, he shouts alou d\, he shows himself mighty against his foes.\n\nFor a long time I have he ld my peace\, I have kept still and restrained myself\; now I will cry out like a woman in travail\, I will gasp and pant. I will lay waste mountain s and hills\, and dry up all their herbage\; I will turn the rivers into i slands\, and dry up the pools. And I will lead the blind in a way that the y know not\, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will t urn the darkness before them into light\, the rough places into level grou nd. These are the things I will do\, and I will not forsake them.\n\nOld T estament Reading: Genesis 18:20-33 \nThen the LORD said\, "Because the ou tcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave\, I w ill go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outc ry which has come to me\; and if not\, I will know." So the men turned fro m there\, and went toward Sodom\; but Abraham still stood before the LORD. Then Abraham drew near\, and said\, "Wilt thou indeed destroy the righteo us with the wicked? Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city\; wi lt thou then destroy the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous wh o are in it? Far be it from thee to do such a thing\, to slay the righteou s with the wicked\, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from thee! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" And the LORD sa id\, "If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city\, I will spare the wh ole place for their sake." Abraham answered\, "Behold\, I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord\, I who am but dust and ashes. Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking? Wilt thou destroy the whole city for lac k of five?" And he said\, "I will not destroy it if I find forty-five ther e." Again he spoke to him\, and said\, "Suppose forty are found there." He answered\, "For the sake of forty I will not do it." Then he said\, "Oh l et not the Lord be angry\, and I will speak. Suppose thirty are found ther e." He answered\, "I will not do it\, if I find thirty there." He said\, " Behold\, I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord. Suppose twenty are found there." He answered\, "For the sake of twenty I will not destroy it ." Then he said\, "Oh let not the Lord be angry\, and I will speak again b ut this once. Suppose ten are found there." He answered\, "For the sake of ten I will not destroy it." And the LORD went his way\, when he had finis hed speaking to Abraham\; and Abraham returned to his place.\n\nOld Testam ent Reading: Proverbs 16:17-17:17 \nThe highway of the upright turns asid e from evil\; he who guards his way preserves his life. Pride goes before destruction\, and a haughty spirit before a fall. It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud. He who gives heed to the word will prosper\, and happy is he who trusts in the L ORD. The wise of heart is called a man of discernment\, and pleasant speec h increases persuasiveness. Wisdom is a fountain of life to him who has it \, but folly is the chastisement of fools. The mind of the wise makes his speech judicious\, and adds persuasiveness to his lips. Pleasant words are like a honeycomb\, sweetness to the soul and health to the body. There is a way which seems right to a man\, but its end is the way to death. A wor ker's appetite works for him\; his mouth urges him on. A worthless man plo ts evil\, and his speech is like a scorching fire. A perverse man spreads strife\, and a whisperer separates close friends. A man of violence entice s his neighbor and leads him in a way that is not good. He who winks his e yes plans perverse things\, he who compresses his lips brings evil to pass . A hoary head is a crown of glory\; it is gained in a righteous life. He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty\, and he who rules his spir it than he who takes a city. The lot is cast into the lap\, but the decisi on is wholly from the LORD.\n\nBetter is a dry morsel with quiet than a ho use full of feasting with strife. A slave who deals wisely will rule over a son who acts shamefully\, and will share the inheritance as one of the b rothers. The crucible is for silver\, and the furnace is for gold\, and th e LORD tries hearts. An evildoer listens to wicked lips\; and a liar gives heed to a mischievous tongue. He who mocks the poor insults his Maker\; h e who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished. Grandchildren are the cr own of the aged\, and the glory of sons is their fathers. Fine speech is n ot becoming to a fool\; still less is false speech to a prince. A bribe is like a magic stone in the eyes of him who gives it\; wherever he turns he prospers. He who forgives an offense seeks love\, but he who repeats a ma tter alienates a friend. A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows into a fool. An evil man seeks only rebellion\, and a cruel messenger will be sent against him. Let a man meet a she-bear robbe d of her cubs\, rather than a fool in his folly. If a man returns evil for good\, evil will not depart from his house. The beginning of strife is li ke letting out water\; so quit before the quarrel breaks out. He who justi fies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomin ation to the LORD. Why should a fool have a price in his hand to buy wisdo m\, when he has no mind? A friend loves at all times\, and a brother is bo rn for adversity.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260326 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260327 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132964 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2063867461 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Akathist Service CATEGORIES:Services CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260327T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260327T183000 CREATED:20260319T225826Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2063867461 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132965 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Martyr Matrona of Thessalonica DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/27/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Martyr Matrona of Thessalonica\; Paul\, Bishop of Corinth\n\nStrict F ast\n\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 45:11-17 \nThus says the LORD\, the Holy One of Israel\, and his Maker: "Will you question me about my childre n\, or command me concerning the work of my hands? I made the earth\, and created man upon it\; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens\, and I commanded all their host. I have aroused him in righteousness\, and I w ill make straight all his ways\; he shall build my city and set my exiles free\, not for price or reward\," says the LORD of hosts.\n\nThus says the LORD: "The wealth of Egypt and the merchandise of Ethiopia\, and the Sabe ans\, men of stature\, shall come over to you and be yours\, they shall fo llow you\; they shall come over in chains and bow down to you. They will m ake supplication to you\, saying: 'God is with you only\, and there is no other\, no god besides him.'" Truly\, thou art a God who hidest thyself\, O God of Israel\, the Savior. All of them are put to shame and confounded\ , the makers of idols go in confusion together. But Israel is saved by the LORD with everlasting salvation\; you shall not be put to shame or confou nded to all eternity.\n\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 22:1-18 \nAfter t hese things God tested Abraham\, and said to him\, "Abraham!" And he said\ , "Here am I." He said\, "Take your son\, your only son Isaac\, whom you l ove\, and go to the land of Moriah\, and offer him there as a burnt offeri ng upon one of the mountains of which I shall tell you." So Abraham rose e arly in the morning\, saddled his ass\, and took two of his young men with him\, and his son Isaac\; and he cut the wood for the burnt offering\, an d arose and went to the place of which God had told him. On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place afar off. Then Abraham said t o his young men\, "Stay here with the ass\; I and the lad will go yonder a nd worship\, and come again to you." And Abraham took the wood of the burn t offering\, and laid it on Isaac his son\; and he took in his hand the fi re and the knife. So they went both of them together. And Isaac said to hi s father Abraham\, "My father! "And he said\, "Here am I\, my son." He sai d\, "Behold\, the fire and the wood\; but where is the lamb for a burnt of fering?" Abraham said\, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt off ering\, my son." So they went both of them together.\n\nWhen they came to the place of which God had told him\, Abraham built an altar there\, and l aid the wood in order\, and bound Isaac his son\, and laid him on the alta r\, upon the wood. Then Abraham put forth his hand\, and took the knife to slay his son. But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven\, and s aid\, "Abraham\, Abraham!" And he said\, "Here am I." He said\, "Do not la y your hand on the lad or do anything to him\; for now I know that you fea r God\, seeing you have not withheld your son\, your only son\, from me." And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked\, and behold\, behind him was a ram\, caught in a thicket by his horns\; and Abraham went and took the ram \, and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son. So Abraham ca lled the name of that place The LORD will provide\; as it is said to this day\, "On the mount of the LORD it shall be provided." And the angel of th e LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven\, and said\, "By myself I have sworn\, says the LORD\, because you have done this\, and have not withheld your son\, your only son\, I will indeed bless you\, and I will m ultiply your descendants as the stars of heaven and as the sand which is o n the seashore. And your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemi es\, and by your descendants shall all the nations of the earth bless them selves\, because you have obeyed my voice."\n\nOld Testament Reading: Prov erbs 17:17-18:5 \nA friend loves at all times\, and a brother is born for adversity. A man without sense gives a pledge\, and becomes surety in the presence of his neighbor. He who loves transgression loves strife\; he wh o makes his door high seeks destruction. A man of crooked mind does not pr osper\, and one with a perverse tongue falls into calamity. A stupid son i s a grief to a father\; and the father of a fool has no joy. A cheerful he art is a good medicine\, but a downcast spirit dries up the bones. A wicke d man accepts a bribe from the bosom to pervert the ways of justice. A man of understanding sets his face toward wisdom\, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth. A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitt erness to her who bore him. To impose a fine on a righteous man is not goo d\; to flog noble men is wrong. He who restrains his words has knowledge\, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding. Even a fool who k eeps silent is considered wise\; when he closes his lips\, he is deemed in telligent.\n\nHe who is estranged seeks pretexts to break out against all sound judgment. A fool takes no pleasure in understanding\, but only in ex pressing his opinion. When wickedness comes\, contempt comes also\; and wi th dishonor comes disgrace. The words of a man's mouth are deep waters\; t he fountain of wisdom is a gushing stream. It is not good to be partial to a wicked man\, or to deprive a righteous man of justice.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260327 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260328 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132965 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2057910842 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Scouting Ministry Event: EOCS Religious Emblems Workshop (Dn. Noah Papas) DESCRIPTION:Who: Dn. Noah Papas\n\n CATEGORIES:Orthodox Scouting CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260328T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260328T130000 CREATED:20260310T172840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260316T201514Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2057910842 X-TEAMUP-WHO:Dn. Noah Papas END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132966 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 5th Saturday of Lent: The Akathist Hymn DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/28/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 5th Saturday of Lent: The Akathist Hymn\; Hilarion the New\; Herodion the Apostle of the 70\; Stephen the Wonderworker\n\nFast Day (Wine and Oi l Allowed)\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 9:1-7 \nB RETHREN\, the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sa nctuary. For a tent was prepared\, the outer one\, in which were the lamps tand and the table and the bread of the Presence\; it is called the Holy P lace. Behind the second curtain stood a tent called the Holy of Holies\, h aving the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on a ll sides with gold\, which contained a golden urn holding the manna\, and Aaron's rod that budded\, and the tables of the covenant\; above it were t he cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cann ot now speak in detail. These preparations having thus been made\, the pri ests go continually into the outer tent\, performing their ritual duties\; but into the second only the high priest goes\, and he but once a year\, and not without taking blood which he offers for himself and for the error s of the people.\n\nGospel Reading: Luke 1:39-49\, 56 \nIn those days\, M ary arose and went with haste into the hill country\, to a city of Judah\, and she entered the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth. And when El izabeth heard the greeting of Mary\, the babe leaped in her womb\; and Eli zabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and she exclaimed with a loud cry\, "Blessed are you among women\, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! And why is this granted me\, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? Fo r behold\, when the voice of your greeting came to my ears\, the babe in m y womb leaped for joy. And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord."\n\nAnd Mary said\ , "My soul magnifies the Lord\, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior\, for he has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden. For behold\, hencefo rth all generations will call me blessed\; for he who is mighty has done g reat things for me\, and holy is his name." And Mary remained with her abo ut three months\, and returned to her home.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260328 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260329 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132966 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132968 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/29/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt\; Mark\, Bishop of Arethusa\; Martyr Cyri l the Deacon and Those with him\; The Holy Martyrs Jonas and Barachesius\; Eustathios the Confessor\, Bishop of Bithynia\n\nFast Day (Wine and Oil A llowed)\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: John 20:19-31 \nOn the evening of that day\, the first day of the week\, the doors being shut where the disciples were for fear of the Jews\, Jesus came and stood among them and said to t hem\, "Peace be with you." When He had said this\, He showed them His hand s and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again\, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent Me\, even so I send you." And when He had said this\, He breathed on them and said to them\, "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any\, they are forgiven\; if you retain the sins of any\, they are retained." Now Tho mas\, one of the twelve\, called the Twin\, was not with them when Jesus c ame. So the other disciples told him\, "We have seen the Lord." But he sai d to them\, "Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails\, and place my finger in the mark of the nails\, and place my hand in His side\, I wil l not believe." Eight days later\, His disciples were again in the house\, and Thomas was with them. The doors were shut\, but Jesus came and stood among them and said\, "Peace be with you." Then He said to Thomas\, "Put y our finger here\, and see My hands\; and put out your hand\, and place it in My side\; do not be faithless\, but believing." Thomas answered Him\, " My Lord and My God!" Jesus said to him\, "Have you believed because you ha ve seen Me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe." Now Jesu s did many other signs in the presence of the disciples\, which are not wr itten in this book\; but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ\, the Son of God\, and that believing\, you may have life i n His name.\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 9:11-14 \nBRETHREN\, when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come\, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands\, that is\, not of this creation) he entered once for all into the Holy Place\, taking not the blood of goats and calves but his own blood\, thus securing an eternal redemption. For if the sprinkling of defiled pers ons with the blood of goats and bulls and with the ashes of a heifer sanct ifies for the purification of the flesh\, how much more shall the blood of Christ\, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish t o God\, purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.\n\ nGospel Reading: Mark 10:32-45 \nAt that time\, Jesus took his twelve dis ciples\, and he began to tell them what was to happen to him\, saying\, "B ehold\, we are going up to Jerusalem\; and the Son of man will be delivere d to the chief priests and the scribes\, and they will condemn him to deat h\, and deliver him to the Gentiles\; and they will mock him\, and spit up on him\, and scourge him\, and kill him\; and after three days he will ris e." And James and John\, the sons of Zebedee\, came forward to him\, and s aid to him\, "Teacher\, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you." And he said to them\, "What do you want me to do for you?" And they said t o him\, "Grant us to sit\, one at your right hand and one at your left\, i n your glory." But Jesus said to them\, "You do not know what you are aski ng. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink\, or to be baptized with th e baptism with which I am baptized?" And they said to him\, "We are able." And Jesus said to them\, "The cup that I drink you will drink\; and with the baptism with which I am baptized\, you will be baptized\; but to sit a t my right hand or at my left is not mine to grant\, but it is for those f or whom it has been prepared." And when the ten heard it\, they began to b e indignant of James and John. And Jesus called them to him and said to th em\, "You know that those who are supposed to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them\, and their great men exercise authority over them. But it sh all not be so among you\; but whoever would be great among you must be you r servant\, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. For the Son of man also came not to be served but to serve\, and to give his life as a ransom for many."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260329 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260330 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132968 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132969 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ John Climacus the Righteous\, author of The Divine Ladder of Ascent DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/30/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: John Climacus the Righteous\, author of The Divine Ladder of Ascent\; Sosthenes\, Apollos\, Cephas\, Caesar\, &\; Epaphroditos\, the Apostle s of the 70\; Zacharias the New Martyr\n\nStrict Fast\n\nOld Testament Rea ding: Isaiah 48:17-49:4 \nThus says the LORD\, your Redeemer\, the Holy O ne of Israel: "I am the LORD your God\, who teaches you to profit\, who le ads you in the way you should go. O that you had hearkened to my commandme nts! Then your peace would have been like a river\, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea\; your offspring would have been like the sand\ , and your descendants like its grains\; their name would never be cut off or destroyed from before me."\n\nGo forth from Babylon\, flee from Chalde a\, declare this with a shout of joy\, proclaim it\, send it forth to the end of the earth\; say\, "The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob!" They t hirsted not when he led them through the deserts\; he made water flow for them from the rock\; he cleft the rock and the water gushed out. "There is no peace\," says the LORD\, "for the wicked."\n\nListen to me\, O coastla nds\, and hearken\, you peoples from afar. The LORD called me from the wom b\, from the body of my mother he named my name. He made my mouth like a s harp sword\, in the shadow of his hand he hid me\; he made me a polished a rrow\, in his quiver he hid me away. And he said to me\, "You are my serva nt\, Israel\, in whom I will be glorified." But I said\, "I have labored i n vain\, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity\; yet surely my r ight is with the LORD\, and my recompense with my God."\n\nOld Testament R eading: Genesis 27:1-41 \nWhen Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so tha t he could not see\, he called Esau his older son\, and said to him\, "My son"\; and he answered\, "Here I am." He said\, "Behold\, I am old\; I do not know the day of my death. Now then\, take your weapons\, your quiver a nd your bow\, and go out to the field\, and hunt game for me\, and prepare for me savory food\, such as I love\, and bring it to me that I may eat\; that I may bless you before I die." Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game and bring it\, Rebekah said to her son Jacob\, "I heard your father speak to your brother Esau\, 'Bring me game\, and prepare for me savory food\, that I may eat it\, and bless you before the LORD before I die.' Now therefore \, my son\, obey my word as I command you. Go to the flock\, and fetch me two good kids\, that I may prepare from them savory food for your father\, such as he loves\; and you shall bring it to your father to eat\, so that he may bless you before he dies." But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother\, "Behold\, my brother Esau is a hairy man\, and I am a smooth man. Perhaps my father will feel me\, and I shall seem to be mocking him\, and bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing." His mother said to him\, "Upon me b e your curse\, my son\; only obey my word\, and go\, fetch them to me." So he went and took them and brought them to his mother\; and his mother pre pared savory food\, such as his father loved. Then Rebekah took the best g arments of Esau her older son\, which were with her in the house\, and put them on Jacob her younger son\; and the skins of the kids she put upon hi s hands and upon the smooth part of his neck\; and she gave the savory foo d and the bread\, which she had prepared\, into the hand of her son Jacob. \n\nSo he went in to his father\, and said\, "My father"\; and he said\, " Here I am\; who are you\, my son?" Jacob said to his father\, "I am Esau y our first-born. I have done as you told me\; now sit up and eat of my game \, that you may bless me." But Isaac said to his son\, "How is it that you have found it so quickly\, my son?" He answered\, "Because the LORD your God granted me success." Then Isaac said to Jacob\, "Come near\, that I ma y feel you\, my son\, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not." So Jacob went near to Isaac his father\, who felt him and said\, "The voic e is Jacob's voice\, but the hands are the hands of Esau." And he did not recognize him\, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands \; so he blessed him. He said\, "Are you really my son Esau?" He answered\ , "I am." Then he said\, "Bring it to me\, that I may eat of my son's game and bless you." So he brought it to him\, and he ate\; and he brought him wine\, and he drank. Then his father Isaac said to him\, "Come near and k iss me\, my son." So he came near and kissed him\; and he smelled the smel l of his garments\, and blessed him\, and said\, "See\, the smell of my so n is as the smell of a field which the LORD has blessed! May God give you of the dew of heaven\, and of the fatness of the earth\, and plenty of gra in and wine. Let peoples serve you\, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers\, and may your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be every one who curses you\, and blessed be every one who blesses you!"\n\n As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob\, when Jacob had scarcely gon e out from the presence of Isaac his father\, Esau his brother came in fro m his hunting. He also prepared savory food\, and brought it to his father . And he said to his father\, "Let my father arise\, and eat of his son's game\, that you may bless me." His father Isaac said to him\, "Who are you ?" He answered\, "I am your son\, your first-born\, Esau." Then Isaac trem bled violently\, and said\, "Who was it then that hunted game and brought it to me\, and I ate it all before you came\, and I have blessed him? - Ye s\, and he shall be blessed." When Esau heard the words of his father\, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry\, and said to his fath er\, "Bless me\, even me also\, O my father!" But he said\, "Your brother came with guile\, and he has taken away your blessing." Esau said\, "Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He too k away my birthright\; and behold\, now he has taken away my blessing." Th en he said\, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?" Isaac answered Esa u\, "Behold\, I have made him your lord\, and all his brothers I have give n to him for servants\, and with grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you\, my son?" Esau said to his father\, "Have you but one blessing\, my father? Bless me\, even me also\, O my father." And Esau lifted up his voice and wept. Then Isaac his father answered him: "Behold \, away from the fatness of the earth shall your dwelling be\, and away fr om the dew of heaven on high. By your sword you shall live\, and you shall serve your brother\; but when you break loose you shall break his yoke fr om your neck." Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him\, and Esau said to himself\, "The days of mourning for my father are approaching\; then I will kill my brother Jacob."\n\nOl d Testament Reading: Proverbs 19:16-25 \nHe who keeps the commandment kee ps his life\; he who despises the word will die. He who is kind to the poo r lends to the LORD\, and he will repay him for his deed. Discipline your son while there is hope\; do not set your heart on his destruction. A man of great wrath will pay the penalty\; for if you deliver him\, you will on ly have to do it again. Listen to advice and accept instruction\, that you may gain wisdom for the future. Many are the plans in the mind of a man\, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will be established. What is desir ed in a man is loyalty\, and a poor man is better than a liar. The fear of the LORD leads to life\; and he who has it rests satisfied\; he will not be visited by harm. The sluggard buries his hand in the dish\, and will no t even bring it back to his mouth. Strike a scoffer\, and the simple will learn prudence\; reprove a man of understanding\, and he will gain knowled ge.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260330 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260331 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132969 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132970 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ The Holy Hieromartyr Hypatius\, Bishop of Gangra DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 03/31/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: The Holy Hieromartyr Hypatius\, Bishop of Gangra\; Theophilos the Mar tyr and those with him\; Innocent\, Enlightener of Siberia &\; Alaska\; Akakios the Confessor\n\nStrict Fast\n\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 49: 6-10 \nThus says the LORD: "I will give you as a light to the nations\, t hat my salvation may reach to the end of the earth." Thus says the LORD\, the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One\, to one deeply despised\, abhorre d by the nations\, the servant of rulers: "Kings shall see and arise\; pri nces\, and they shall prostrate themselves\; because of the LORD\, who is faithful\, the Holy One of Israel\, who has chosen you." Thus says the LOR D: "In a time of favor I have answered you\, in a day of salvation I have helped you\; I have kept you and given you as a covenant to the people\, t o establish the land\, to apportion the desolate heritages\; saying to the prisoners\, 'Come forth\,' to those who are in darkness\, 'Appear.' They shall feed along the ways\, on all bare heights shall be their pasture\; t hey shall not hunger or thirst\, neither scorching wind nor sun shall smit e them\, for he who has pity on them will lead them\, and by springs of wa ter will guide them.\n\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 31:3-16 \nThen the LORD said to Jacob\, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your kind red\, and I will be with you." So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah in to the field where his flock was\, and said to them\, "I see that your fat her does not regard me with favor as he did before. But the God of my fath er has been with me. You know that I have served your father with all my s trength\; yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times\, but God did not permit him to harm me. If he said\, 'The spotted shall be your wages\,' then all the flock bore spotted\; and if he said\, 'The stri ped shall be your wages\,' then all the flock bore striped. Thus God has t aken away the cattle of your father\, and given them to me. In the mating season of the flock I lifted up my eyes\, and saw in a dream that the he-g oats which leaped upon the flock were striped\, spotted\, and mottled. The n the angel of God said to me in the dream\, 'Jacob\,' and I said\, 'Here I am!' And he said\, 'Lift up your eyes and see\, all the goats that leap upon the flock are striped\, spotted\, and mottled\; for I have seen all t hat Laban is doing to you. I am the God of Bethel\, where you anointed a p illar and made a vow to me. Now arise\, go forth from this land\, and retu rn to the land of your birth.'" Then Rachel and Leah answered him\, "Is th ere any portion or inheritance left to us in our father's house? Are we no t regarded by him as foreigners? For he has sold us\, and he has been usin g up the money given for us. All the property which God has taken away fro m our father belongs to us and to our children\; now then\, whatever God h as said to you\, do."\n\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 21:3-21 \nTo do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. H aughty eyes and a proud heart\, the lamp of the wicked\, are sin. The plan s of the diligent lead surely to abundance\, but every one who is hasty co mes only to want. The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death. The violence of the wicked will sweep them aw ay\, because they refuse to do what is just. The way of the guilty is croo ked\, but the conduct of the pure is right. It is better to live in a corn er of the housetop than in a house shared with a contentious woman. The so ul of the wicked desires evil\; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes. W hen a scoffer is punished\, the simple becomes wise\; when a wise man is i nstructed\, he gains knowledge. The righteous observes the house of the wi cked\; the wicked are cast down to ruin. He who closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself cry out and not be heard. A gift in secret averts anger\; and a bribe in the bosom\, strong wrath. When justice is done\, i t is a joy to the righteous\, but dismay to evildoers. A man who wanders f rom the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead. He who loves pleasure will be a poor man\; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich. The wicked is a ransom for the righteous\, and the faithless for th e upright. It is better to live in a desert land than with a contentious a nd fretful woman. Precious treasure remains in a wise man's dwelling\, but a foolish man devours it. He who pursues righteousness and kindness will find life and honor.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260331 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260401 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132970 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132971 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Mary of Egypt DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 04/01/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Mary of Egypt\; Euthemios of Suzdal\; Gerontios &\; Vasilides the Martyrs\n\nStrict Fast\n\nOld Testament Reading: Isaiah 58:1-11 \nThus sa ys the LORD: "Cry aloud\, spare not\, lift up your voice like a trumpet\; declare to my people their transgression\, to the house of Jacob their sin s. Yet they seek me daily\, and delight to know my ways\, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the ordinance of their God\; they ask of me righteous judgments\, they delight to draw near to G od. 'Why have we fasted\, and thou seest it not? Why have we humbled ourse lves\, and thou takest no knowledge of it?' Behold\, in the day of your fa st you seek your own pleasure\, and oppress all your workers. Behold\, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with wicked fist. Fasting li ke yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high. Is such th e fast that I choose\, a day for a man to humble himself? Is it to bow dow n his head like a rush\, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast\, and a day acceptable to the LORD?\n\n"Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness\, to undo the tho ngs of the yoke\, to let the oppressed go free\, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry\, and bring the homeless poo r into your house\; when you see the naked\, to cover him\, and not to hid e yourself from your own flesh? Then shall your light break forth like the dawn\, and your healing shall spring up speedily\; your righteousness sha ll go before you\, the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard. Then yo u shall call\, and the LORD will answer\; you shall cry\, and he will say\ , "Here I am."\n\n"If you take away from the midst of you the yoke\, the p ointing of the finger\, and speaking wickedness\, if you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted\, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday. And the LORD will guide you continually\, and satisfy your desire with good things\, an d make your bones strong\; and you shall be like a watered garden\, like a spring of water\, whose waters fail not.\n\nOld Testament Reading: Genesi s 43:26-31\; 45:1-16 \nWhen Joseph came home\, they brought into the hous e to him the present which they had with them\, and bowed down to him to t he ground. And he inquired about their welfare\, and said\, "Is your fathe r well\, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?" They said\, "Y our servant our father is well\, he is still alive." And they bowed their heads and made obeisance. And he lifted up his eyes\, and saw his brother Benjamin\, his mother's son\, and said\, "Is this your youngest brother\, of whom you spoke to me? God be gracious to you\, my son!" Then Joseph mad e haste\, for his heart yearned for his brother\, and he sought a place to weep. And he entered his chamber and wept there. Then he washed his face and came out\; and controlling himself he said\, "Let food be served."\n\n (Chapter 45:1-16) Then Joseph could not control himself before all those w ho stood by him\; and he cried\, "Make every one go out from me." So no on e stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers. And he w ept aloud\, so that the Egyptians heard it\, and the household of Pharaoh heard it. And Joseph said to his brothers\, "I am Joseph\; is my father st ill alive?" But his brothers could not answer him\, for they were dismayed at his presence. So Joseph said to his brothers\, "Come near to me\, I pr ay you." And they came near. And he said\, "I am your brother\, Joseph\, w hom you sold into Egypt. And now do not be distressed\, or angry with your selves\, because you sold me here\; for God sent me before you to preserve life. For the famine has been in the land these two years\; and there are yet five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest. And Go d sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth\, and to keep alive for you many survivors. So it was not you who sent me here\, but God \; and he has made me a father to Pharaoh\, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt. Make haste and go up to my father and sa y to him\, 'Thus says your son Joseph\, God has made me lord of all Egypt\ ; come down to me\, do not tarry\; you shall dwell in the land of Goshen\, and you shall be near me\, you and your children and your children's chil dren\, and your flocks\, your herds\, and all that you have\; and there I will provide for you\, for there are yet five years of famine to come\; le st you and your household\, and all that you have\, come to poverty.' And now your eyes see\, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see\, that it is m y mouth that speaks to you. You must tell my father of all my splendor in Egypt\, and of all that you have seen. Make haste and bring my father down here." Then he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck and wept\; and Benja min wept upon his neck. And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them\ ; and after that his brothers talked with him. When the report was heard i n Pharaoh's house\, "Joseph's brothers have come\," it pleased Pharaoh and his servants well.\n\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 21:23-22:4 \nHe wh o keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble. "Scoffer" i s the name of the proud\, haughty man who acts with arrogant pride. The de sire of the sluggard kills him for his hands refuse to labor. All day long the wicked covets\, but the righteous gives and does not hold back. The s acrifice of the wicked is an abomination\; how much more when he brings it with evil intent. A false witness will perish\, but the word of a man who hears will endure. A wicked man puts on a bold face\, but an upright man considers his ways. No wisdom\, no understanding\, no counsel\, can avail against the LORD. The horse is made ready for the day of battle\, but the victory belongs to the LORD. A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches\, and favor is better than silver or gold. The rich and the poor m eet together\; the LORD is the maker of them all. A prudent man sees dange r and hides himself\; but the simple go on\, and suffer for it. The reward for humility and fear of the LORD is riches and honor and life.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260401 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260402 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132971 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2069469312 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Presanctified Liturgy - Lenten Community Meal following Presanctifi ed CATEGORIES:Church Events,Services CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260401T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260401T200000 CREATED:20260329T165535Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2069469312 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132972 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Titus the Wonderworker DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 04/02/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Titus the Wonderworker\; Theodora the Virgin-martyr of Palestine\; Am phianos &\; Aedesios the Martyrs of Lycia\n\nStrict Fast\n\nOld Testame nt Reading: Isaiah 65:8-16 \nThus says the LORD: "As the wine is found in the cluster\, and they say\, 'Do not destroy it\, for there is a blessing in it\,' so I will do for my servants' sake\, and not destroy them all. I will bring forth descendants from Jacob\, and from Judah inheritors of my mountains\; my chosen shall inherit it\, and my servants shall dwell ther e. Sharon shall become a pasture for flocks\, and the Valley of Achor a pl ace for herds to lie down\, for my people who have sought me. But you who forsake the LORD\, who forget my holy mountain\, who set a table for Fortu ne and fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny\; I will destine you to the swo rd\, and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter\; because\, when I cal led\, you did not answer\, when I spoke\, you did not listen\, but you did what was evil in my eyes\, and chose what I did not delight in." Therefor e thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold\, my servants shall eat\, but you shall be hungry\; behold\, my servants shall drink\, but you shall be thirsty\; behold\, my servants shall rejoice\, but you shall be put to shame\; behol d\, my servants shall sing for gladness of heart\, but you shall cry out f or pain of heart\, and shall wail for anguish of spirit. You shall leave y our name to my chosen for a curse\, and the Lord GOD will slay you\; but h is servants he will call by a different name. So that he who blesses himse lf in the land shall bless himself by the God of truth\, and he who takes an oath in the land shall swear by the God of truth\; because the former t roubles are forgotten and are hid from my eyes.\n\nOld Testament Reading: Genesis 46:1-7 \nSo Israel took his journey with all that he had\, and ca me to Beersheba\, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. A nd God spoke to Israel in visions of the night\, and said\, "Jacob\, Jacob ." And he said\, "Here am I." Then he said\, "I am God\, the God of your f ather\; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt\; for I will there make of yo u a great nation. I will go down with you to Egypt\, and I will also bring you up again\; and Joseph's hand shall close your eyes." Then Jacob set o ut from Beersheba\; and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father\, th eir little ones\, and their wives\, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent t o carry him. They also took their cattle and their goods\, which they had gained in the land of Canaan\, and came into Egypt\, Jacob and all his off spring with him\, his sons\, and his sons' sons with him\, his daughters\, and his sons' daughters\; all his offspring he brought with him into Egyp t.\n\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 23:15-24:5 \nMy son\, if your heart is wise\, my heart too will be glad. My soul will rejoice when your lips speak what is right. Let not your heart envy sinners\, but continue in the fear of the LORD all the day. Surely there is a future\, and your hope wi ll not be cut off. Hear\, my son\, and be wise\, and direct your mind in t he way. Be not among winebibbers\, or among gluttonous eaters of meat\; fo r the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty\, and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags. Hearken to your father who begot you\, and do not despise your mother when she is old. Buy truth\, and do not sell it\; buy wisdom\, instruction\, and understanding. The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice\; he who begets a wise son will be glad in him. Let your father and mother be glad\, let her who bore you rejoice. My son\, give me your heart\, and let your eyes observe my ways. For a harlot is a deep pi t\; an adventuress is a narrow well. She lies in wait like a robber and in creases the faithless among men. Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has stri fe? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? Those who tarry long over wine\, those who go to try mixed wine. Do not look at wine when it is red\, when it sparkles in the cup and goes dow n smoothly. At the last it bites like a serpent\, and stings like an adder . Your eyes will see strange things\, and your mind utter perverse things. You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea\, like one who lies on the top of a mast. "They struck me\," you will say\, "but I was n ot hurt\; they beat me\, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I will seek another drink." Be not envious of evil men\, nor desire to be with t hem\; for their minds devise violence\, and their lips talk of mischief. B y wisdom a house is built\, and by understanding it is established\; by kn owledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches. A wise man is mightier than a strong man\, and a man of knowledge than he who ha s strength.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260402 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260403 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132972 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2069466943 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Friday Eve of Lazarus Saturday: Compline with\nCanon of St. Lazarus CATEGORIES:Services CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260403T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260403T190000 CREATED:20260329T164505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260329T164527Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2069466943 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132973 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Nicetas\, Abbot of the Monastery of Medicium DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 04/03/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Nicetas\, Abbot of the Monastery of Medicium\; Joseph the Hymnographe r\; Theodosia and Irene the Martyrs\n\nStrict Fast\n\nOld Testament Readin g: Isaiah 66:10-24 \n"Rejoice with Jerusalem\, and be glad for her\, all you who love her\; rejoice with her in joy\, all you who mourn over her\; that you may suck and be satisfied with her consoling breasts\; that you m ay drink deeply with delight from the abundance of her glory." For thus sa ys the LORD: "Behold\, I will extend prosperity to her like a river\, and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing stream\; and you shall suck\ , you shall be carried upon her hip\, and dandled upon her knees. As one w hom his mother comforts\, so I will comfort you\; you shall be comforted i n Jerusalem. You shall see\, and your heart shall rejoice\; your bones sha ll flourish like the grass\; and it shall be known that the hand of the LO RD is with his servants\, and his indignation is against his enemies. "For behold\, the LORD will come in fire\, and his chariots like the stormwind \, to render his anger in fury\, and his rebuke with flames of fire. For b y fire will the LORD execute judgment\, and by his sword\, upon all flesh\ ; and those slain by the LORD shall be many. "Those who sanctify and purif y themselves to go into the gardens\, following one in the midst\, eating swine's flesh and the abomination and mice\, shall come to an end together \, says the LORD. "For I know their works and their thoughts\, and I am co ming to gather all nations and tongues\; and they shall come and shall see my glory\, and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send su rvivors to the nations\, to Tarshish\, Put\, and Lud\, who draw the bow\, to Tubal and Javan\, to the coastlands afar off\, that have not heard my f ame or seen my glory\; and they shall declare my glory among the nations. And they shall bring all your brethren from all the nations as an offering to the LORD\, upon horses\, and in chariots\, and in litters\, and upon m ules\, and upon dromedaries\, to my holy mountain Jerusalem\, says the LOR D\, just as the Israelites bring their cereal offering in a clean vessel t o the house of the LORD. And some of them also I will take for priests and for Levites\, says the LORD. "For as the new heavens and the new earth wh ich I will make shall remain before me\, says the LORD\; so shall your des cendants and your name remain. From new moon to new moon\, and from sabbat h to sabbath\, all flesh shall come to worship before me\, says the LORD. "And they shall go forth and look on the dead bodies of the men that have rebelled against me\; for their worm shall not die\, their fire shall not be quenched\, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh."\n\nOld Testam ent Reading: Genesis 49:33-50:26 \nWhen Jacob finished charging his sons\ , he drew up his feet into the bed\, and breathed his last\, and was gathe red to his people. Then Joseph fell on his father's face\, and wept over h im\, and kissed him. And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to e mbalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel\; forty days were requ ired for it\, for so many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians we pt for him seventy days.\n\nAnd when the days of weeping for him were past \, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh\, saying\, "If now I have foun d favor in your eyes\, speak\, I pray you\, in the ears of Pharaoh\, sayin g\, My father made me swear\, saying\, 'I am about to die: in my tomb whic h I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan\, there shall you bury me.' Now therefore let me go up\, I pray you\, and bury my father\; then I wil l return." And Pharaoh answered\, "Go up\, and bury your father\, as he ma de you swear." So Joseph went up to bury his father\; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh\, the elders of his household\, and all the e lders of the land of Egypt\, as well as all the household of Joseph\, his brothers\, and his father's household\; only their children\, their flocks \, and their herds were left in the land of Goshen. And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen\; it was a very great company. When they c ame to the threshing floor of Atad\, which is beyond the Jordan\, they lam ented there with a very great and sorrowful lamentation\; and he made a mo urning for his father seven days. When the inhabitants of the land\, the C anaanites\, saw the mourning on the threshing floor of Atad\, they said\, "This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians." Therefore the place was na med Abelmizraim\; it is beyond the Jordan. Thus his sons did for him as he had commanded them\; for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan\, and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah\, to the east of Mamre\, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite\, to possess as a burying place. After he had buried his father\, Joseph returned to Eg ypt with his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father. When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead\, they said\, "It m ay be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil which we d id to him." So they sent a message to Joseph\, saying\, "Your father gave this command before he died\, 'Say to Joseph\, Forgive\, I pray you\, the transgression of your brothers and their sin\, because they did evil to yo u.' And now\, we pray you\, forgive the transgression of the servants of t he God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him. His brothers a lso came and fell down before him\, and said\, "Behold\, we are your serva nts." But Joseph said to them\, "Fear not\, for am I in the place of God? As for you\, you meant evil against me\; but God meant it for good\, to br ing it about that many people should be kept alive\, as they are today. So do not fear\; I will provide for you and your little ones." Thus he reass ured them and comforted them.\n\nSo Joseph dwelt in Egypt\, he and his fat her's house\; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years. And Joseph saw Eph raim's children of the third generation\; the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born upon Joseph's knees. And Joseph said to his brot hers\, "I am about to die\; but God will visit you\, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham\, to Isaac\, and to Jac ob." Then Joseph took an oath of the sons of Israel\, saying\, "God will v isit you\, and you shall carry up my bones from here." So Joseph died\, be ing a hundred and ten years old\; and they embalmed him\, and he was put i n a coffin in Egypt.\n\nOld Testament Reading: Proverbs 31:8-31 \nOpen yo ur mouth for the dumb\, for the rights of all who are left desolate. Open your mouth\, judge righteously\, maintain the rights of the poor and needy . A good wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The hear t of her husband trusts in her\, and he will have no lack of gain. She doe s him good\, and not harm\, all the days of her life. She seeks wool and f lax\, and works with willing hands. She is like the ships of the merchant\ , she brings her food from afar. She rises while it is yet night and provi des food for her household and tasks for her maidens. She considers a fiel d and buys it\; with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard. She gir ds her loins with strength and makes her arms strong. She perceives that h er merchandise is profitable. Her lamp does not go out at night. She puts her hands to the distaff\, and her hands hold the spindle. She opens her h and to the poor\, and reaches out her hands to the needy. She is not afrai d of snow for her household\, for all her household are clothed in scarlet . She makes herself coverings\; her clothing is fine linen and purple. Her husband is known in the gates\, when he sits among the elders of the land . She makes linen garments and sells them\; she delivers girdles to the me rchant. Strength and dignity are her clothing\, and she laughs at the time to come. She opens her mouth with wisdom\, and the teaching of kindness i s on her tongue. She looks well to the ways of her household\, and does no t eat the bread of idleness. Her children rise up and call her blessed\; h er husband also\, and he praises her: "Many women have done excellently\, but you surpass them all." Charm is deceitful\, an\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260403 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260404 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132973 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2069467061 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Lazarus Saturday (April 4): Orthros and Liturgy CATEGORIES:Services CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260404T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260404T103000 CREATED:20260329T164552Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2069467061 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2069467120 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Lazarus Saturday (April 4): Great Vespers for Palm Sunday CATEGORIES:Services CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260404T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260404T183000 CREATED:20260329T164631Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2069467120 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132974 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 Lazarus Saturday DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 04/04/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Lazarus Saturday\; George the Righteous of Maleon\; Righteous Plato t he Studite\; Theonas\, Archbishop of Thessaloniki\, Founder and Renovator of the Sacred Monastery of Saint Anastasia of Pharmakolytria\, Halkidiki\; Nicetas the Hieromartyr\, Struggler of Serrai (1808)\; Theodoulos and Aga thopous of Thessaloniki\; Righteous Zosimas\n\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allo wed)\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 12:28-29\; 13:1- 8 \nBRETHREN\, let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken\, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship\, with reverence and awe\; for our God is a consuming fire. Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers\, for thereby some have ente rtained angels unawares. Remember those who are in prison\, as though in p rison with them\; and those who are ill-treated\, since you also are in th e body. Let marriage be held in honor among all\, and let the marriage bed be undefiled\; for God will judge the immoral and adulterous. Keep your l ife free from love of money\, and be content with what you have\; for he h as said\, "I will never fail you nor forsake you." Hence we can confidentl y say\, "The Lord is my helper\, I will not be afraid\; what can man do to me?" Remember your leaders\, those who spoke to you the word of God\; con sider the outcome of their life\, and imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever.\n\nGospel Reading: John 11:1-4 5 \nAt that time\, a certain man was ill\, Lazaros of Bethany\, from the village of Mary and her sister Martha. It was Mary who anointed the Lord w ith ointment and wiped his feet with her hair\, whose brother Lazaros was ill. So the sisters sent to him\, saying\, "Lord\, he whom you love is ill ." But when Jesus heard it he said\, "This illness is not unto death\; it is for the glory of God\, so that the Son of God may be glorified by means of it."\n\nNow Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazaros. So when he heard that he was ill\, he stayed two days longer in the place where he wa s. Then after this he said to the disciples\, "Let us go into Judea again. " The disciples said to him\, "Rabbi\, the Jews were but now seeking to st one you\, and are you going there again?" Jesus answered\, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any one walks in the day\, he does not stumble \, because he sees the light of this world. But if any one walks in the ni ght\, he stumbles\, because the light is not in him." Thus he spoke\, and then he said to them\, "Our friend Lazaros has fallen asleep\, but I go to awake him out of sleep." The disciples said to him\, "Lord\, if he has fa llen asleep\, he will recover." Now Jesus had spoken of his death\, but th ey thought that he meant taking rest in sleep. Then Jesus told them plainl y\, "Lazaros is dead\; and for your sake I am glad that I was not there\, so that you may believe. But let us go to him." Thomas\, called the Twin\, said to his fellow disciples\, "Let us also go\, that we may die with him ."\n\nNow when Jesus came\, he found that Lazaros had already been in the tomb four days. Bethany was near Jerusalem\, about two miles off\, and man y of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming\, she went and met him\, while Mary sat in the house. Martha said to Jesus\, "Lord\, if you had be en here\, my brother would not have died. And even now I know that whateve r you ask from God\, God will give you." Jesus said to her\, "Your brother will rise again." Martha said to him\, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day." Jesus said to her\, "I am the resurrec tion and the life\; he who believes in me\, though he die\, yet shall he l ive\, and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?" She said to him\, "Yes\, Lord\; I believe that you are the Christ\ , the Son of God\, he who is coming into the world."\n\nWhen she had said this\, she went and called her sister Mary\, saying quietly\, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you." And when she heard it\, she rose quickly and went to him. Now Jesus had not yet come to the village\, but was stil l in the place where Martha had met him. When the Jews who were with her i n the house\, consoling her\, saw Mary rise quickly and go out\, they foll owed her\, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there. Then Ma ry\, when she came where Jesus was and saw him\, fell at his feet\, saying to him\, "Lord\, if you had been here\, my brother would not have died." When Jesus saw her weeping\, and the Jews who came with her also weeping\, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled\; and he said\, "Where have yo u laid him?" They said to him\, "Lord\, come and see." Jesus wept. So the Jews said\, "See how he loved him!" But some of them said\, "Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?"\n\nTh en Jesus\, deeply moved again\, came to the tomb\; it was a cave\, and a s tone lay upon it. Jesus said\, "Take away the stone." Martha\, the sister of the dead man\, said to him\, "Lord\, by this time there will be an odor \, for he has been dead four days." Jesus said to her\, "Did I not tell yo u that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?" So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said\, "Father\, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you have heard me always\, but I h ave said this on account of the people standing by\, that they may believe that you did send me." When he had said this\, he cried with a loud voice \, "Lazaros\, come out." The dead man came out\, his hands and feet bound with bandages\, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them\, "U nbind him\, and let him go." Many of the Jews therefore\, who had come wit h Mary and had seen what he did\, believed in him.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260404 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260405 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132974 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2069467177 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Bridegroom Service CATEGORIES:Services CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260405T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260405T190000 CREATED:20260329T164706Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2069467177 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132975 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🐟 Palm Sunday DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 04/05/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Palm Sunday\; Monk-Martyrs Claudius\, Diodore\, Victor\, Victorinus\, Pappias\, Nicephorus\, and Serapion\; Theodora the Righteous of Thessalon iki\; Agathopodes and Theodulos the Martyrs\; George the new Martyr\n\nFas t Day (Fish Allowed)\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: Matthew 21:1-11\; 15-17 \n At that time\, when Jesus drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage\, t o the Mount of Olives\, he sent two disciples\, saying to them\, "Go into the village opposite you\, and immediately you will find a donkey tied\, a nd a colt with her\; untie them and bring them to me. If any one says anyt hing to you\, you shall say\, 'The Lord has need of them\,' and he will se nd them immediately." This took place to fulfill what was spoken by the pr ophet\, saying\,\n\n"Tell the daughter of Zion\, \nBehold\, your king is coming to you\, \nhumble and mounted on a donkey\, \nand on a colt\, the foal of a donkey."\n\nThe disciples went and did as Jesus had directed th em\; they brought the donkey and the colt\, and put their garments on them \, and he sat thereon. Most of the crowd spread their garments on the road \, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. And the crowds that went before him and that followed him shouted\, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosa nna in the highest!" And when he entered Jerusalem\, all the city was stir red\, saying\, "Who is this?" And the crowds said\, "This is the prophet J esus from Nazareth of Galilee." But when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did\, and the children crying out in the tem ple\, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" they were indignant\; and they said t o him\, "Do you hear what they are saying?" And Jesus said to them\, "Yes\ ; have you never read\,\n\n'Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings\, \n you have brought perfect praise'?"\n\nAnd leaving them\, he went out of th e city to Bethany and lodged there.\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Philippians 4:4-9 \nBRETHREN\, rejoice in the Lord always\; again I will say\, Rejoice. Let all men know your forbearance. The Lord is at ha nd. Have no anxiety about anything\, but in everything by prayer and suppl ication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God\, which passes all understanding\, will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally\, brethren\, whatever is true\, whatev er is honorable\, whatever is just\, whatever is pure\, whatever is lovely \, whatever is gracious\, if there is any excellence\, if there is anythin g worthy of praise\, think about these things. What you have learned and r eceived and heard and seen in me\, do\; and the God of peace will be with you.\n\nGospel Reading: John 12:1-18 \nSix days before Passover\, Jesus c ame to Bethany\, where Lazaros was\, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. There they made him a supper\; Martha served\, and Lazaros was one of thos e at table with him. Mary took a pound of costly ointment of pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair\; and the hou se was filled with the fragrance of the ointment. But Judas Iscariot\, one of his disciples (he who was to betray him)\, said "Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?" This he said\, not that he cared for the poor but because he was a thief\, and as he had the money box he used to take what was put into it. Jesus said\, "Let her alone\, let her keep it for the day of my burial. The poor you always hav e with you\, but you do not always have me."\n\nWhen the great crowd of th e Jews learned that he was there\, they came\, not only on account of Jesu s but also to see Lazaros\, whom he had raised from the dead. So the chief priests planned to put Lazaros also to death\, because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.\n\nThe next day a great crowd who had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jeru salem. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him\, cryi ng\, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord\, even the King of Israel!" And Jesus found a young donkey and sat upon it\; as it is written\, "Fear not\, daughter of Zion\; behold\, your king is coming\, s itting on a donkey's colt!" His disciples did not understand this at first \; but when Jesus was glorified\, then they remembered that this had been written of him and had been done to him. The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazaros out of the tomb and raised him from the dead bore w itness. The reason why the crowd went to meet him was that they heard he h ad done this sign.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260405 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260406 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132975 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2069467218 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Bridegroom Service CATEGORIES:Services CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260406T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260406T193000 CREATED:20260329T164724Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2069467218 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132976 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Holy Monday DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 04/06/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Holy Monday\; Eutychius\, Patriarch of Constantinople\; 120 Martyrs o f Persia\; Gregory of Sinai\; Platonis the Nun of Nisibis\n\nStrict Fast\n \nGospel Reading: Matthew 21:18-43 \nAt that time\, as Jesus was returnin g to the city\, he was hungry. And seeing a fig tree by the wayside he wen t to it\, and found nothing on it but leaves only. And he said to it\, "Ma y no fruit ever come from you again!" And the fig tree withered at once. W hen the disciples saw it they marveled\, saying\, "How did the fig tree wi ther at once?" And Jesus answered them\, "Truly\, I say to you\, if you ha ve faith and never doubt\, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree\, but even if you say to this mountain\, 'Be taken up and cast in to the sea\,' it will be done. And whatever you ask in prayer\, you will r eceive\, if you have faith. " And when he entered the temple\, the chief p riests and the elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching\, an d said\, "By what authority are you doing these things\, and who gave you this authority?" Jesus answered them\, "I also will ask you a question\; a nd if you tell me the answer\, then I also will tell you by what authority I do these things. The baptism of John\, whence was it? From heaven or fr om men?" And they argued with one another\, "If we say\, 'From heaven\,' h e will say to us\, 'Why then did you not believe him?' But if we say\, 'Fr om men\,' we are afraid of the multitude\; for all hold that John was a pr ophet." So they answered Jesus\, "We do not know." And he said to them\, " Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things. What do you t hink? A man had two sons\; and he went to the first and said\, 'Son\, go a nd work in the vineyard today.' And he answered\, 'I will not'\; but after ward he repented and went. And he went to the second and said the same\; a nd he answered\, 'I go\, sir\,' but did not go. Which of the two did the w ill of his father?" They said\, "The first." Jesus said to them\, "Truly\, I say to you\, the tax collectors and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. For John came to you in the way of righteousness\, and you did not believe him\, but the tax collectors and the harlots believed him \; and even when you saw it\, you did not afterward repent and believe him .\n\n"Hear another parable. There was a householder who planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it\, and dug a wine press in it\, and built a towe r\, and let it out to tenants\, and went into another country. When the se ason of fruit drew near\, he sent his servants to the tenants\, to get his fruit\; and the tenants took his servants and beat one\, killed another\, and stoned another. Again he sent other servants\, more than the first\; and they did the same to them. Afterward he sent his son to them\, saying\ , 'They will respect my son.' But when the tenants saw the son\, they said to themselves\, 'This is the heir\; come\, let us kill him and have his i nheritance.' And they took him and cast him out of the vineyard\, and kill ed him. When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes\, what will he do t o those tenants?" They said to him\, "He will put those wretches to a mise rable death\, and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons." Jesus said to them\, "Have you never read in the scriptures: 'The very stone which the builders rejected has become th e head of the corner\; this was the Lord's doing\, and it is marvelous in our eyes'? Therefore I tell you\, the kingdom of God will be taken away fr om you and given to a nation producing the fruits of it."\n\nGospel Readin g: Matthew 24:3-35 \nAt that time\, as Jesus sat on the Mount of Olives\, the disciples came to him privately\, saying\, "Tell us\, when will this be\, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age? " And Jesus answered them\, "Take heed that no one leads you astray. For m any will come in my name\, saying\, 'I am the Christ\,' and they will lead many astray. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars\; see that you are not alarmed\; for this must take place\, but the end is not yet. For n ation will rise against nation\, and kingdom against kingdom\, and there w ill be famines and earthquakes in various places: all this is but the begi nning of the sufferings.\n\nThen they will deliver you up to tribulation\, and put you to death\; and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake. And then many will fall away\, and betray one another\, and hate on e another. And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. And be cause wickedness is multiplied\, most men's love will grow cold. But he wh o endures to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world\, as a testimony to all nations\; and then the end will come.\n\nSo when you see the desolating sacrilege spoke n of by the prophet Daniel\, standing in the holy place (let the reader un derstand)\, then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains\; let hi m who is on the housetop not go down to take what is in his house\; and le t him who is in the field not turn back to take his mantle. And alas for t hose who are with child and for those who give suck in those days! Pray th at your flight may not be in winter or on a sabbath. For then there will b e great tribulation\, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now\, no\, and never will be. And if those days had not been shorte ned\, no human being would be saved\; but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened. Then if anyone says to you\, 'Lo\, here is the Chr ist!' or 'There he is!' do not believe it. For false Christs and false pro phets will arise and show great signs and wonders\, so as to lead astray\, if possible\, even the elect. Lo\, I have told you beforehand. So\, if th ey say to you\, 'Lo\, he is in the wilderness\,' do not go out\; if they s ay\, 'Lo\, he is in the inner rooms\,' do not believe it. For as the light ning comes from the east and shines as far as the west\, so will be the co ming of the Son of man. Wherever the body is\, there the eagles will be ga thered together. Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun w ill be darkened\, and the moon will not give its light\, and the stars wil l fall from heaven\, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken\; then w ill appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven\, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn\, and they will see the Son of man coming on the c louds of heaven with power and great glory\; and he will send out his ange ls with a loud trumpet call\, and they will gather his elect from the four winds\, from one end of heaven to the other.\n\nFrom the fig tree learn i ts lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts forth its leaves\ , you know that summer is near. So also\, when you see all these things\, you know that he is near\, at the very gates. Truly\, I say to you\, this generation will not pass away till all these things take place. Heaven and earth will pass away\, but my words will not pass away."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260406 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260407 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132976 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2069467237 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Bridegroom Service CATEGORIES:Services CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260407T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260407T193000 CREATED:20260329T164734Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2069467237 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132977 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Holy Tuesday DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 04/07/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Holy Tuesday\; Calliopus and Akylina the Martyrs\; George\, Bishop of Mytilene\; Gerasimos the God-Bearer of Byzantium\; Righteous Father Savva s the New of Kalymnos\; Tikhon\, Patriarch of Moscow and Enlightener of No rth America\n\nStrict Fast\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 22:15-46\; 23:1-39 \nAt that time\, the Pharisees went and took counsel against Jesus\, how t o entangle him in his talk. And they sent their disciples to him\, along w ith the Herodians\, saying\, "Teacher\, we know that you are true\, and te ach the way of God truthfully\, and care for no man\; for you do not regar d the position of men. Tell us\, then\, what you think. Is it lawful to pa y taxes to Caesar\, or not?" But Jesus\, aware of their malice\, said\, "W hy put me to the test\, you hypocrites? Show me the money for the tax." An d they brought him a coin. And Jesus said to them\, "Whose likeness and in scription is this?" They said\, "Caesar's." Then he said to them\, "Render \, therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's\, and to God the thing s that are God's. " When they heard it\, they marveled\; and they left him and went away.\n\nThe same day the Sadducees came to him\, who say that t here is no resurrection\; and they asked him a question saying\, "Teacher\ , Moses said\, 'If a man dies\, having no children\, his brother must marr y the widow\, and raise up children for his brother.' Now there were seven brothers among us\; the first married\, and died\, and having no children left his wife to his brother. So too the second and third\, down to the s eventh. After them all\, the woman died. In the resurrection\, therefore\, to which of the seven will she be wife? For they all had her."\n\nBut Jes us answered them\, "You are wrong\, because you know neither the scripture s nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage\, but are like angels of God in heaven. And as for the resurrection of the dead\, have you not read what was said to you by God\, 'I am the God of Abraham\, and the God of Isaac\, and the God of Jacob'? He is not God of the dead\, but of the living." And when the crowd heard i t\, they were astonished at his teaching.\n\nBut when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees\, they came together. And one of them\, a lawyer\, asked him a question\, to test him. "Teacher\, which is the gr eat commandment in the law?" And he said to him\, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart\, and with all your soul\, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it. Y ou shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets."\n\nNow while the Pharisees were gathered to gether\, Jesus asked them a question\, saying: "What do you think of the C hrist? Whose son is he?" They said to him\, "The son of David." He said to them\, "How is it then that David\, inspired by the Spirit\, calls him Lo rd\, saying\, 'The Lord said to my Lord\, sit at my right hand\, till I pu t your enemies under your feet'? If David thus calls him Lord\, how is he his son?" And no one was able to answer him a word\, nor from that day did any one dare to ask him any more questions.\n\nThen said Jesus to the cro wds and to his disciples\, "The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' se at\; so practice and observe whatever they tell you\, but not what they do \; for they preach but do not practice. They bind heavy burdens\, hard to bear\, and lay them on men's shoulders\; but they themselves will not move them with their finger. They do all their deeds to be seen by men\; for t hey make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long\, and they love t he place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues\, and sal utations in the market places\, and being called rabbi by men\, but you ar e not to be called rabbi\, for you have one teacher\, and you are all bret hren. And call no man your father on earth\, for you have one Father\, who is in heaven. Neither be called masters\, for you have one master\, the C hrist. He who is greatest among you shall be your servant\; whoever exalts himself will be humbled\, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.\n\ n"But woe to you\, scribes and Pharisees\, hypocrites! for you devour wido ws' houses and for a pretense you make long prayers\; therefore you will r eceive the greater condemnation. Woe to you\, scribes and Pharisees\, hypo crites! because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men\; for you neith er enter yourselves\, nor allow those who would enter to go in. Woe to you \, scribes and Pharisees\, hypocrites! for you traverse sea and land to ma ke a single proselyte\, and when he becomes a proselyte\, you make him twi ce as much a child of Gehenna as yourselves.\n\n"Woe to you\, blind guides \, who say\, 'If any one swears by the temple\, it is nothing\; but if any one swears by the gold of the temple\, he is bound by his oath.' You blin d fools! For which is greater\, the gold or the temple that has made the g old sacred? And you say\, 'If any one swears by the altar\, it is nothing\ ; but if any one swears by the gift that is on the altar\, he is bound by his oath.' You blind men! For which is greater\, the gift or the altar tha t makes the gift sacred? So he who swears by the altar\, swears by it and by everything on it\; and he who swears by the temple\, swears by it and b y him who dwells in it\; and he who swears by heaven\, swears by the thron e of God and by him who sits upon it.\n\n"Woe to you\, scribes and Pharise es\, hypocrites! for you tithe mint and dill and cumin\, and have neglecte d the weightier matters of the law\, justice and mercy and faith\; these y ou ought to have done without neglecting the others. You blind guides\, st raining out a gnat and swallowing a camel! "Woe to you\, scribes and Phari sees\, hypocrites! for you cleanse the outside of the cup and of the plate \, but inside they are full of extortion and rapacity. You blind Pharisee! first cleanse the inside of the cup and of the plate\, that the outside a lso may be clean. Woe to you\, scribes and Pharisees\, hypocrites! for you are like white-washed tombs\, which outwardly appear beautiful\, but with in they are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness. So you also outw ardly appear to men\, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. W oe to you\, scribes and Pharisees\, hypocrites! for you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous\, saying\, 'If we h ad lived in the days of our fathers\, we would not have taken part with th em in shedding the blood of the prophets.' Thus you witness against yourse lves\, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up\, the n\, the measure of your fathers. You serpents\, you brood of vipers\, how are you to escape being sentenced to Gehenna? Therefore I send you prophet s and wise men and scribes\, some of whom you will kill and crucify\, and some you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from town to town\, that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth\, from the b lood of innocent Abel to the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachiah\, who m you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. Truly\, I say to you\, all this will come upon this generation.\n\n"O Jerusalem\, Jerusalem\, ki lling the prophets and stoning those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under he r wings\, and you would not! Behold\, your house is forsaken and desolate. For I tell you\, you will not see me again\, until you say\, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'"\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 24:36-5 1\; 25:1-46\; 26:1-2 \nThe Lord said to his disciples\, "Of that day and hour no one knows\, not even the angels of heaven\, but the Father only. A s were the days of Noah\, so will be the coming of the Son of man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking\, marrying an d giving in marriage\, until the day when Noah entered the ark\, and they did not know until the flood came and swept them all away\, so will be the coming of the Son of man. Then two men will be in the field\; one is take n and one is left. Two women will be grinding at the mill\; one is taken a nd one is left. Watch therefore\, for you do not\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260407 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260408 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132977 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2069467261 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Unction Service CATEGORIES:Services CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260408T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260408T193000 CREATED:20260329T164754Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2069467261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132979 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Holy Wednesday DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 04/08/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Holy Wednesday\; The Holy Apostles of the Seventy Herodion\, Agabus\, Rufus\, Asyncritus\, Phlegon\, and Hermes\; The Holy New Martyr John the Ship-Builder who was martyred in Kos\; Rufus the Obedient of the Kiev Cave s\; Celestine\, Pope of Rome\n\nStrict Fast\n\nGospel Reading: John 12:17- 50 \nAt that time\, the crowd that had been with Jesus when he called Laz arus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead bore witness. The reason why the crowd went to meet him was that they heard he had done this sign. The Pharisees then said to one another\, "You see that you can do nothing \; look\, the world has gone after him."\n\nNow among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks. So these came to Philip\, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee\, and said to him\, "Sir\, we wish to see Jesus. " Philip went and told Andrew\; Andrew went with Philip and they told Jesu s. And Jesus answered them\, "The hour has come for the Son of man to be g lorified. Truly\, truly\, I say to you\, unless a grain of wheat falls int o the earth and dies\, it remains alone\; but if it dies\, it bears much f ruit. He who loves his life loses it\, and he who hates his life in this w orld will keep it for eternal life. If any one serves me\, he must follow me\; and where I am\, there shall my servant be also\; if any one serves m e\, the Father will honor him.\n\n"Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? 'Father\, save me from this hour'? No\, for this purpose I have co me to this hour. Father\, glorify your name." Then a voice came from heave n\, "I have glorified it\, and I will glorify it again." The crowd standin g by heard it and said that it had thundered. Others said\, "An angel has spoken to him." Jesus answered\, "This voice has come for your sake\, not for mine. Now is the judgment of this world\, now shall the ruler of this world be cast out\; and I\, when I am lifted up from the earth\, will draw all men to myself." He said this to show by what death he was to die. The crowd answered him\, "We have heard from the law that the Christ remains for ever. How can you say that the Son of man must be lifted up? Who is th is Son of man?" Jesus said to them\, "The light is with you for a little l onger. Walk while you have the light\, lest the darkness overtake you\; he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes. While you have the light\, believe in the light\, that you may become sons of light."\n\nWhe n Jesus had said this\, he departed and hid himself from them. Though he h ad done so many signs before them\, yet they did not believe in him\; it w as that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: "Lord\, who has believed our report\, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been rev ealed?" Therefore they could not believe. For Isaiah again said\, "He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart\, lest they should see with th eir eyes and perceive with their heart\, and turn for me to heal them." Is aiah said this because he saw his glory and spoke of him. Nevertheless man y even of the authorities believed in him\, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it\, lest they should be put out of the synagogue: fo r they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.\n\nAnd Jesus c ried out and said\, "He who believes in me\, believes not in me but in him who sent me. And he who sees me sees him who sent me. I have come as ligh t into the world\, that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness. If any one hears my sayings and does not keep them\, I do not judge him\; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. He who rejec ts me and does not receive my sayings has a judge\; the word that I have s poken will be his judge on the last day. For I have not spoken on my own a uthority\; the Father who sent me has himself given me commandment what to say and what to speak. And I know that his commandment is eternal life. W hat I say\, therefore\, I say as the Father has bidden me."\n\nGospel Read ing: Matthew 26:6-16 \nWhen Jesus was at Bethany at the house of Simon th e leper\, a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment and she poured it on his head\, as he sat at table. But when the disciples saw it\, they were indignant\, saying\, "Why this waste? For th is ointment might have been sold for a large sum\, and given to the poor." But Jesus\, aware of this\, said to them\, "Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me. For you always have the poor wi th you\, but you will not always have me. In pouring this ointment on my b ody she has done it to prepare me for burial. Truly\, I say to you whereve r this gospel is preached in the whole world\, what she has done will be t old in memory of her." Then one of the twelve\, who was called Judas Iscar iot\, went to the chief priests and said\, "What will you give me if I del iver him to you?" And they paid him thirty pieces of silver. And from that moment he sought an opportunity to betray him.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260408 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260409 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132979 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2069467302 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Vesperal Liturgy CATEGORIES:Services CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260409T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260409T110000 CREATED:20260329T164818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260329T164823Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2069467302 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2069467344 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Twelve Gospel Passions Service CATEGORIES:Services CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260409T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260409T190000 CREATED:20260329T164846Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2069467344 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132980 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 Holy Thursday DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 04/09/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Holy Thursday\; The Holy Martyr Eupsychius of Caesarea\; Raphael\, Ni cholas\, Irene\, &\; Olympias of Mytilene\; Vadim the Righteous of Pers ia\n\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: Luke 22:1- 39 \nAt that time\, the feast of Unleavened Bread drew near\, which is ca lled the Passover. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to put Jesus to death. For they feared the people. Then Satan entered into Judas called Iscariot\, who was of the number of the twelve\; he went awa y and conferred with the chief priests and officers how he might betray hi m to them. And they were glad\, and engaged to give him money. So he agree d\, and sought an opportunity to betray him to them in the absence of the multitude. Then came the day of Unleavened Bread\, on which the passover l amb had to be sacrificed. So he sent Peter and John\, saying\, "Go and pre pare the passover for us\, that we may eat it." They said to him\, "Where will you have us prepare it?" He said to them\, "Behold\, when you have en tered the city\, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you\; follow him into the house which he enters\, and tell the householder\, 'The Teacher s ays to you\, Where is the guest room\, where I am to eat the passover with my disciples?' And he will show you a large upper room furnished\; there make ready." And they went\, and found it as he had told them\; and they p repared the passover. And when the hour came\, he sat at table\, and the a postles with him. And he said to them. "I have earnestly desired to eat th is passover with you before I suffer\; for I tell you I shall never eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God." And he took a cup\, a nd when he had given thanks he said\, "Take this\, and divide it among you rselves\; for I tell you that from now on I shall not drink of the fruit o f the vine until the kingdom of God comes. " And he took bread\, and when he had given thanks he broke it and gave it to them\, saying\, "This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me." And likewise the cup after supper\, saying\, "This cup which is poured out for you is t he new covenant in my blood. But behold the hand of him who betrays me is with me on the table. For the Son of man goes as it has been determined\; but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!" And they began to question on e another\, which of them it was that would do this. A dispute also arose among them\, which of them was to be regarded as the greatest. And he said to them\, "The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them\; and th ose in authority over them are called benefactors. But not so with you\; r ather let the greatest among you become as the youngest\, and the leader a s one who serves. For which is the greater\, one who sits at table\, or on e who serves? Is it not the one who sits at table? But I am among you as o ne who serves. You are those who have continued with me in my trials\; and I assign to you\, as my Father assigned to me\, a kingdom\, that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom\, and sit on thrones judging the t welve tribes of Israel. Simon\, Simon\, behold\, Satan demanded to have yo u\, that he might sift you like wheat\, but I have prayed for you that you r faith may not fail\; and when you have turned again\, strengthen your br ethren." And he said to him\, "Lord\, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death." He said\, "I tell you\, Peter\, the cock will not crow this day\, until you three times deny that you know me. " And he said to them\ , "When I sent you out with no purse or bag or sandals\, did you lack anyt hing?" They said\, "Nothing." He said to them\, "But now\, let him who has a purse take it\, and likewise a bag. And let him who has no sword sell h is mantle and buy one. For I tell you that this scripture must be fulfille d in me\, "And he was reckoned with transgressors'\; for what is written a bout me has its fulfillment." And they said\, "Look\, Lord\, here are two swords. " And he said to them\, "It is enough." \nAnd he came out\, and w ent\, as was his custom\, to the Mount of Olives\; and the disciples follo wed him.\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 11 :23-32 \nBRETHREN\, I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you \, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread\, and when he had given thanks\, he broke it\, and said\, "This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me." In the same way also the cup\, after supper\, saying\, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do thi s\, as often as you drink it\, in remembrance of me." For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup\, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.\n\nWhoever\, therefore\, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lo rd in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a man examine himself\, and so eat of the bread and drink o f the cup. For any one who eats and drinks without discerning the body eat s and drinks judgment upon himself. That is why many of you are weak and i ll\, and some have died. But if we judged ourselves truly\, we should not be judged. But when we are judged by the Lord\, we are chastened so that w e may not be condemned along with the world.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 26 :1-20\; John 13:3-17\; Matthew 26:21-39\; Luke 22:43-44\; Matthew 26:40-75 \; 27:1-2 \nThe Lord said to his disciples\, "You know that after two day s the Passover is coming\, and the Son of man will be delivered up to be c rucified."\n\nThen the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest\, who was called Caiaphas\, and took cou nsel together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him. But they s aid\, "Not during the feast\, lest there be a tumult among the people."\n\ nNow when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper\, a woman c ame up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment\, and she poured it on his head\, as he sat at table. But when the disciples saw it \, they were indignant\, saying\, "Why this waste? For this ointment might have been sold for a large sum\, and given to the poor."\n\nBut Jesus\, a ware of this\, said to them\, "Why do you trouble the woman? For she has d one a beautiful thing to me.\n\nFor you always have the poor with you\, bu t you will not always have me.\n\nIn pouring this ointment on my body she has done it to prepare me for burial. Truly\, I say to you\, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world\, what she has done will be told in memory of her."\n\nThen one of the twelve\, who was called Judas Iscariot \, went to the chief priests and said\, "What will you give me if I delive r him to you?" And they paid him thirty pieces of silver. And from that mo ment he sought an opportunity to betray him.\n\nNow on the first day of Un leavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus\, saying\, "Where will you have us prepare for you to eat the Passover?" He said\, "Go into the city to a certain one\, and say to him\, 'The Teacher says\, My time is at hand\; I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.'" And the discipl es did as Jesus had directed them\, and they prepared the Passover. When i t was evening\, he sat at table with the twelve disciples.\n\nJesus\, know ing that the Father had given all things into his hands\, and that he had come from God and was going to God\, rose from supper\, laid aside his gar ments\, and girded himself with a towel. Then he poured water into a basin \, and began to wash the disciples' feet\, and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded.\n\nHe came to Simon Peter\; and Peter said to h im\, "Lord\, do you wash my feet?" Jesus answered him\, "What I am doing y ou do not know now\, but afterward you will understand." Peter said to him \, "You shall never wash my feet." Jesus answered him\, "If I do not wash you\, you have no part in me." Simon Peter said to him\, "Lord\, not my fe et only but also my hands and my head!" Jesus said to him\, "He who has ba thed does not need to wash\, except for his feet\, but he is clean all ove r\; and you are clean\, but not every one of you." For he knew who was to betray him\; that was why he said\, "You are not all clean."\n\nWhen he ha d washed their feet\, and taken his garments\, and res\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260409 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260410 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132980 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2069467371 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Royal Hours CATEGORIES:Services CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260410T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260410T100000 CREATED:20260329T164903Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2069467371 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2069467670 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Vespers of the Unnailing CATEGORIES:Services CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260410T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260410T160000 CREATED:20260329T164926Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260329T164933Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2069467670 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2069467727 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Lamentations Orthros CATEGORIES:Services CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260410T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260410T193000 CREATED:20260329T165000Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2069467727 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132981 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Holy Friday DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 04/10/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Holy Friday\; Terence and his Companions beheaded at Carthage\; 150 a nd more Righteous Martyr Fathers of the Sacred Monastery of Pantocrator Da ou Pentelis\; Gregory V\, the Holy Martyr and Patriarch of Constantinople\ ; Holy Father Theonas\, Archbishop of Thessolonica\; Miltiades\, Pope of R ome\n\nStrict Fast\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's First Letter to the Cori nthians 5:6-8 \nBRETHREN\, a little leaven leavens the whole lump. Cleans e out the old leaven that you may be a new lump\, as you really are unleav ened. For Christ\, our paschal lamb\, has been sacrificed. Let us\, theref ore\, celebrate the festival\, not with the old leaven\, the leaven of mal ice and evil\, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (Gala tians 3.13-14) Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law\, having becom e a curse for us - for it is written\, "Cursed be everyone who hangs on a tree" - that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come upon the G entiles\, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.\n \nGospel Reading: Matthew 27:62-66 \nOn the next day\, that is\, after th e day of Preparation\, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate and said\, "Sir\, we remember how that impostor said\, while he wa s still alive\, 'After three days I will rise again.' Therefore order the sepulcher to be made secure until the third day\, lest his disciples go an d steal him away\, and tell the people\, 'He has risen from the dead\,' an d the last fraud will be worse than the first." Pilate said to them\, "You have a guard of soldiers\; go\, make it as secure as you can." So they we nt and made the sepulcher secure by sealing the stone and setting a guard. \n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260410 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260411 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132981 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2069467755 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Vesperal Liturgy CATEGORIES:Services CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260411T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260411T110000 CREATED:20260329T165021Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2069467755 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132983 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Holy Saturday DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 04/11/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Holy Saturday\; Hieromartyr Antipas\, Bishop of Pergamum\; Pharmuthio s the Anchorite\; Guthlac the Hermit of Crowland\n\nStrict Fast\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: Matthew 27:62-66 \nOn the next day\, that is\, after the day of Preparation\, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before P ilate and said\, "Sir\, we remember how that impostor said\, while he was still alive\, 'After three days I will rise again.' Therefore order the se pulcher to be made secure until the third day\, lest his disciples go and steal him away\, and tell the people\, 'He has risen from the dead\,' and the last fraud will be worse than the first." Pilate said to them\, "You h ave a guard of soldiers\; go\, make it as secure as you can." So they went and made the sepulcher secure by sealing the stone and setting a guard.\n \nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 6:3-11 \nBrethren\, al l who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death. W e were buried therefore with Him by baptism into death\, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father\, we too might walk i n newness of life. For if we have been united with Him in a death like His \, we shall certainly be united with Him in a resurrection like His. We kn ow that our old self was crucified with Him so that the sinful body might be destroyed\, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin. For he who has d ied is freed from sin. But if we have died with Christ\, we believe that w e shall also live with Him. For we know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again\; death no longer has dominion over Him. The dea th He died He died to sin\, once for all\, but the life He lives He lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 28:1-20 \nAfter the sabbath\, toward the dawn of the first day of the week\, Mary Magdalene an d the other Mary went to see the sepulcher. And behold\, there was a great earthquake\; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone\, and sat upon it. His appearance was like lightning \, and his raiment white as snow. And for fear of him the guards trembled and became like dead men. But the angel said to the women\, "Do not be afr aid\; for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here\; f or he has risen\, as he said. Come\, see the place where he lay. Then go q uickly and tell his disciples that he has risen from the dead\, and behold \, he is going before you to Galilee\; there you will see him. Lo\, I have told you." So they departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy \, and ran to tell his disciples. And behold\, Jesus met them and said\, " Hail!" And they came up and took hold of his feet and worshiped him. Then Jesus said to them\, "Do not be afraid\; go and tell my brethren to go to Galilee\, and there they will see me."\n\nWhile they were going\, behold\, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests all that had taken place. And when they had assembled with the elders and taken cou nsel\, they gave a sum of money to the soldiers and said\, "Tell people\, 'His disciples came by night and stole him away while we were asleep.' And if this comes to the governor's ears\, we will satisfy him and keep you o ut of trouble." So they took the money and did as they were directed\; and this story has been spread among the Jews to this day.\n\nNow the eleven disciples went to Galilee\, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed th em. And when they saw him they worshiped him\; but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them\, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been gi ven to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations\, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit\, teachin g them to observe all that I have commanded you\; and lo\, I am with you a lways\, to the close of the age. Amen."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260411 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260412 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132983 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2069467836 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:PASCHAL RUSH SERVICE\, PASCHAL ORTHROS 11:00 PM AND PASCHAL DIVINE LITURGY 12:00 AM CATEGORIES:Services CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260411T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260411T234500 CREATED:20260329T165127Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260329T165155Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2069467836 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2069469186 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Agape Vespers CATEGORIES:Services CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260412T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260412T120000 CREATED:20260329T165359Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2069469186 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132984 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Great and Holy Pascha DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 04/12/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Great and Holy Pascha\; Basil the Confessor\, Bishop of Parium\; Serg ius II\, Patriarch of Constantinople\; Anthousa the Righteous of Constanti nople\; Akakios of Kavsokalyvia\n\nFast Free\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: Mar k 16:1-8 \nWhen the Sabbath was past\, Mary Magdalene\, and Mary the moth er of James and Salome\, bought spices\, so that they might go and anoint Jesus. And very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb w hen the sun had risen. And they were saying to one another\, "Who will rol l away the stone for us from the door of the tomb?" And looking up\, they saw that the stone was rolled back - it was very large. And entering the t omb\, they saw a young man sitting on the right side\, dressed in a white robe\; and they were amazed. And he said to them\, "Do not be amazed\; you seek Jesus of Nazareth\, who was crucified. He has risen\, He is not here \; see the place where they laid Him. But go\, tell His disciples and Pete r that He is going before you to Galilee\; there you will see Him\, as He told you." And they went out and fled from the tomb\, for trembling and as tonishment had come upon them\; and they said nothing to anyone\, for they were afraid.\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 1:1-8 \nIn the fir st book\, O Theophilos\, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach\, until the day when he was taken up\, after he had given commandmen t through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. To them he p resented himself alive after his passion by many proofs\, appearing to the m during forty days\, and speaking of the kingdom of God. And while stayin g with them he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem\, but to wait for the promise of the Father\, which\, he said\, "you heard from me\, for Jo hn baptized with water\, but before many days you shall be baptized with t he Holy Spirit."\n\nSo when they had come together\, they asked him\, "Lor d\, will you at this time restore the kingdom of lsrael?" He said to them\ , "it is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has fixed b y his own authority. But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you\; and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Jude a and Samaria and to the end of the earth."\n\nGospel Reading: John 1:1-17 \nIn the beginning was the Word\, and the Word was with God\, and the Wo rd was God. He was in the beginning with God\; all things were made throug h him\, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was li fe\, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness\, and the darkness has not overcome it.\n\nThere was a man sent from God\, whose name was John. He came for testimony\, to bear witness to the light\ , that all might believe through him. He was not the light\, but came to b ear witness to the light.\n\nThe true light that enlightens every man was coming into the world. He was in the world\, and the world was made throug h him\, yet the world knew him not. He came to his own home\, and his own people received him not. But to all who received him\, who believed in his name\, he gave power to become children of God\; who were born\, not of b lood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man\, but of God.\n\n And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us\, full of grace and truth\; w e have beheld his glory\, glory as of the only Son from the Father. (John bore witness to him\, and cried\, "This was he of whom I said\, 'He who co mes after me ranks before me\, for he was before me.'") And from his fulln ess have we all received\, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses\; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260412 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260413 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132984 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132985 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Renewal Monday DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 04/13/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Renewal Monday\; Martin the Confessor\, Pope of Rome\; Theodosios the Martyr\; Zoilos the Martyr\n\nFast Free\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the A postles 1:12-17\, 21-26 \nIn those days\, the apostles returned to Jerusa lem from the mount called Olivet\, which is near Jerusalem\, a sabbath day 's journey away\; and when they had entered\, they went up to the upper ro om\, where they were staying\, Peter and John and James and Andrew\, Phili p and Thomas\, Bartholomew and Matthew\, James the son of Alphaios and Sim on the Zealot and Judas the son of James. All these with one accord devote d themselves to prayer\, together with the women and Mary the mother of Je sus\, and with his brothers.\n\nIn those days Peter stood up among the bre thren (the company of persons was in all about a hundred and twenty)\, and said\, "Brethren\, the scripture had to be fulfilled\, which the Holy Spi rit spoke beforehand by the mouth of David\, concerning Judas who was guid e to those who arrested Jesus. For he was numbered among us\, and was allo tted his share in this ministry. "So one of the men who have accompanied u s during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us\, begin ning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us - - one of these men must become with us a witness to his resurrection."\n\n And they put forward two\, Joseph called Barsabbas\, who was surnamed Just os\, and Matthias. And they prayed and said\, "Lord\, who knowest the hear ts of all men\, show which one of these two thou hast chosen to take the p lace in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside\, to g o to his own place." And they cast lots for them\, and the lot fell on Mat thias\; and he was enrolled with the eleven apostles.\n\nGospel Reading: J ohn 1:18-28 \nNo one has ever seen God\; the only-begotten Son\, who is i n the bosom of the Father\, he has made him known.\n\nAnd this is the test imony of John\, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to a sk him\, "Who are you?" He confessed\, he did not deny\, but confessed\, " I am not the Christ." And they asked him\, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said\, "I am not." "Are you the prophet?" And he answered\, "No." They sa id to him then\, "Who are you? let us have an answer for those who sent us . What do you say about yourself?" He said\, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness\, 'Make straight the way of the Lord\,' as the prophet Isaiah said."\n\nNow they had been sent from the Pharisees. They asked him \, "Then why are you baptizing\, if you are neither the Christ\, nor Elija h\, nor the prophet?" John answered them\, "I baptize with water\; but amo ng you stands one whom you do not know\, even he who comes after me\, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie." This took place in Bethan y beyond the Jordan\, where John was baptizing.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260413 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260414 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132985 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132986 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Renewal Tuesday: The Commemoration of Saints Raphael\, Nicholas\, Irene\, and the Other Newly-revealed Martyrs of Lesbos DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 04/14/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Renewal Tuesday: The Commemoration of Saints Raphael\, Nicholas\, Ire ne\, and the Other Newly-revealed Martyrs of Lesbos\; Aristarchus\, Pudens \, Trophimus the Apostles of the 70\; Thomais the Martyr of Alexandria\; A rdalion the Actor and Martyr\; Demetrios the New-Martyr of Arcadia\n\nFast Free\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 2:14-21 \nIn those days\, Peter\, standing with the eleven\, lifted up his voice and addressed them\ , "Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem\, let this be known to you\ , and give ear to my words. For these men are not drunk\, as you suppose\, since it is only the third hour of the day\; but this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: 'And in the last days it shall be\, God declares\, th at I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh\, and your sons and your daugh ters shall prophesy\, and your young men shall see visions\, and your old men shall dream dreams\; yea\, and on my menservants and my maid servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit\; and they shall prophesy. And I w ill show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth beneath\, bloo d\, and fire\, and vapor of smoke\; the sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood\, before the day of the Lord comes\, the great and manifest day. And it shall be that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.'"\n\nGospel Reading: Luke 24:12-35 \nAt that time\, \\[Pe ter rose and ran to the tomb\; stooping and looking in\, he saw the linen cloths by themselves\; and he went home wondering at what had happened. Th at very day\\] two of them were going to a village named Emmaus\, about se ven miles from Jerusalem\, and talking with each other about all these thi ngs that had happened. While they were talking and discussing together\, J esus Himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were kept from r ecognizing Him. And He said to them\, "What is this conversation which you are holding with each other as you walk?" and they stood still\, looking sad. Then one of them\, named Cleopas\, answered Him\, "Are you the only v isitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?" And He said to them\, "What things?" And they said to him\ , "Concerning Jesus of Nazareth\, who was a prophet mighty in deed and wor d before God and all the people\, and how our chief priests and rulers del ivered Him up to be condemned to death\, and crucified Him. But we had hop ed that He was the one to redeem Israel. Yes\, and besides all this\, it i s now the third day since this happened. Moreover\, some women of our comp any amazed us. They were at the tomb early in the morning and did not find His body\; and they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels\, who said that He was alive. Some of those who were with us went t o the tomb\, and found it just as the women had said\; but Him they did no t see." And He said to them\, "O foolish men\, and slow of heart to believ e all that the prophets have spoken! Was not it necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into this glory?" And beginning with Moses and all the prophets\, He interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning Himself. So they drew near to the village to which t hey were going. He appeared to be going further\, but they constrained Him \, saying\, "Stay with us\, for it is toward evening and the day is now fa r spent." So He went in to stay with them. When He was at table with them\ , He took the bread and blessed\, and broke it\, and gave it to them. And their eyes were opened and they recognized Him\; and He vanished out of th eir sight. They said to each other\, "Did not our hearts burn within us wh ile He talked to us on the road\, while He opened to us the scriptures?" A nd they rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem\; and they found the eleven gathered together and those who were with them\, who said\, "The L ord has risen indeed\, and has appeared to Simon!" Then they told what had happened on the road and how He was known to them in the breaking of the bread.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260414 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260415 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132986 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132987 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Renewal Wednesday DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 04/15/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Renewal Wednesday\; Crescens the Martyr\; Leonidas\, Bishop of Athens \; Michael the New Martyr of Smyrna\; The 9 Monk-martyrs of Corinth\; Pada rn\, Bishop and Founder of Llandabarn Fawr\n\nFast Free\n\nEpistle Reading : Acts of the Apostles 2:22-38 \nIn those days\, Peter said to the people \, "Men of Israel\, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth\, a man attested t o you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs which God did through him in your midst\, as you yourselves know this Jesus\, delivered up acco rding to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God\, you crucified and ki lled by the hands of lawless men. But God raised him up\, having loosed th e pangs of death\, because it was not possible for him to be held by it. F or David says concerning him\, 'I saw the Lord always before me\, for he i s at my right hand that I may not be shaken\; therefore my heart was glad\ , and my tongue rejoiced\; moreover my flesh will dwell in hope. For thou wilt not abandon my soul to Hades\, nor let thy Holy One see corruption. T hou hast made known to me the ways of life\; thou wilt make me full of gla dness with thy presence.'\n\n"Brethren\, I may say to you confidently of t he patriarch David that he both died and was buried\, and his tomb is with us to this day. Being therefore a prophet\, and knowing that God had swor n with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants upon his th rone\, he foresaw and spoke of the resurrection of the Christ\, that he wa s not abandoned to Hades\, nor did his flesh see corruption. This Jesus Go d raised up\, and of that we all are witnesses. Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God\, and having received from the Father the promise o f the Holy Spirit\, he has poured out this which you see and hear. For Dav id did not ascend into the heavens\; but he himself says\, 'The Lord said to my Lord\, Sit at my right hand\, till I make thy enemies a stool for th y feet.' Let all the house of Israel therefore know assuredly that God has made him both Lord and Christ\, this Jesus whom you crucified."\n\nNow wh en they heard this they were cut to the heart\, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles\, "Brethren\, what shall we do?" And Peter said to th em\, "Repent\, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Chris t."\n\nGospel Reading: John 1:35-51 \nAt that time\, John was standing wi th two of his disciples\; and he looked at Jesus as he walked\, and said\, "Behold\, the Lamb of God!" The two disciples heard him say this\, and th ey followed Jesus. Jesus turned\, and saw them following\, and said to the m\, "What do you seek?" And they said to him\, "Rabbi" (which means Teache r)\, "where are you staying?" He said to them\, "Come and see." They came and saw where he was staying\; and they stayed with him that day\, for it was about the tenth hour. One of the two who heard John speak\, and follow ed him\, was Andrew\, Simon Peter's brother. He first found his brother Si mon\, and said to him\, "We have found the Messiah" (which means Christ). He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said\, "So you are Simon the son of Jonah \\[John\\]? You shall be called Cephas" (which means Pete r).\n\nThe next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. And he found Philip an d said to him\, "Follow me." Now Philip was from Bethsaida\, the city of A ndrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael\, and said to him\, "We have found him of whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote\, Jesus of Nazar eth\, the son of Joseph." Nathanael said to him\, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him\, "Come and see." Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him\, and said of him\, "Behold\, an Israelite indeed\, in whom is no guile!" Nathanael said to him\, "How do you know me?" Jesus answere d him\, "Before Philip called you\, when you were under the fig tree\, I s aw you." Nathanael answered him\, "Rabbi\, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!" Jesus answered him\, "Because I said to you\, I saw you under the fig tree\, do you believe? You shall see greater things than these." And he said to him\, "Truly\, truly\, I say to you\, you will see heaven opened\, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the S on of man."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260415 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260416 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132987 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132988 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Renewal Thursday DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 04/16/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Renewal Thursday\; Agape\, Chionia\, and Irene\, the Holy Martyrs\; R ighteous Amphilochios of Patmos\; Leonidas and Charissa\, Nike\, Galene\, Kallida\, Nounenchia\, Vasilissa\, and Theodora the Martyrs\n\nFast Free\n \nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 2:38-43 \nIn those days\, Peter s aid to the people\, "Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name o f Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins\; and you shall receive th e gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is to you and to your children and to all that are far off\, every one whom the Lord our God calls to him ." And he testified with many other words and exhorted them\, saying\, "Sa ve yourselves from this crooked generation." So those who received his wor d were baptized\, and there were added that day about three thousand souls . And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship\, t o the breaking of bread and the prayers. And fear came upon every soul\; a nd many wonders and signs were done through the apostles.\n\nGospel Readin g: John 3:1-15 \nAt that time\, there was a man of the Pharisees\, named Nikodemos\, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him\, "Rabbi\, we know that you are a teacher come from God\; for no on e can do these signs that you do\, unless God is with him." Jesus answered him\, "Truly\, truly\, I say to you\, unless one is born from above\, he cannot see the kingdom of God." Nikodemos said to him\, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?" Jesus answered\, "Truly\, truly\, I say to you\, unless one is born of water and the Spirit\, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That wh ich is born of the flesh is flesh\, and that which is born of the Spirit i s spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you\, 'You must be born from above. ' The Spirit blows where it wills\, and you hear the sound of it\, and you do not know whence it comes or whither it goes\; so it is with everyone w ho is born of the Spirit." Nikodemos said to him\, "How can this be?" Jesu s answered him\, "Are you a teacher of Israel\, and yet you do not underst and this? Truly\, truly\, I say to you\, we speak of what we know\, and be ar witness to what we have seen\; but you do not receive our testimony. If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe\, how can you belie ve if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ascended into heaven but he w ho descended from heaven\, the Son of man who is in heaven. And as Moses l ifted up the serpent in the wilderness\, so must the Son of man be lifted up\, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260416 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260417 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132988 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132989 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Renewal Friday: Theotokos of the Life-giving Spring DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 04/17/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Renewal Friday: Theotokos of the Life-giving Spring\; Symeon the Holy Martyr\, Bishop of Persepolis\, and those with him\; Makarios\, Bishop of Corinth\; Agapetos of Rome\; Hadrian the New-Martyr\; Donnan\, Abbot of E igg\, and the Monk-Martyrs with him\n\nFast Free\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 3:1-8 \nIn those days\, Peter and John were going up to t he temple at the hour of prayer\, the ninth hour. And a man lame from birt h was being carried\, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful to ask alms of those who entered the temple. Seeing P eter and John about to go into the temple\, he asked for alms. And Peter d irected his gaze at him\, with John\, and said\, "Look at us." And he fixe d his attention upon them\, expecting to receive something from them. But Peter said\, "I have no silver and gold\, but I give you what I have\; in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth\, walk." And he took him by the right hand and raised him up\; and immediately his feet and ankles were made st rong. And leaping up he stood and walked and entered the temple with them\ , walking and leaping and praising God.\n\nGospel Reading: John 2:12-22 \ nAt that time\, Jesus came to Capernaum with his mother and his brothers a nd his disciples\; and there they stayed for a few days.\n\nThe Passover o f the Jews was at hand\, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons\, and the money-ch angers at their business. And making a whip of cords\, he drove them all\, with the sheep and oxen\, out of the temple\; and he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. And he told those who sold the pigeons\, "Take these things away\; you shall not make my Father' s house a house of trade." His disciples remembered that it was written\, "Zeal for your house will consume me." The Jews then said to him\, "What s ign have you to show us for doing this?" Jesus answered them\, "Destroy th is temple\, and in three days I will raise it up." The Jews then said\, "I t has taken forty-six years to build this temple\, and will you raise it u p in three days?" But he spoke of the temple of his body. When therefore h e was raised from the dead\, his disciples remembered that he had said thi s\; and they believed the scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken.\n \n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260417 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260418 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132989 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132990 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Renewal Saturday DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 04/18/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Renewal Saturday\; Holy Father John the Righteous\, disciple of St. G regory of Decapolis\; Euthemios the Enlightener of Karelia\; Cosmas\, Bish op of Calcydon\; John the New Martyr of Epiros\; Athanasia the Wonderworke r of Aegina\n\nFast Free\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 3:11-16 \nIn those days\, while the healed lame man clung to Peter and John\, all the people ran together to them in the portico called Solomon's\, astound ed. And when Peter saw it he addressed the people\, "Men of Israel\, why d o you wonder at this\, or why do you stare at us\, as though by our own po wer or piety we had made him walk? The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob\, the God of our fathers\, glorified his servant Jesus\, whom you de livered up and denied in the presence of Pilate\, when he had decided to r elease him. But you denied the Holy and Righteous One\, and asked for a mu rderer to be granted to you\, and killed the Author of life\, whom God rai sed from the dead. To this we are witnesses. And his name\, by faith in hi s name\, has made this man strong whom you see and know\; and the faith wh ich is through him has given the man this perfect health in the presence o f you all."\n\nGospel Reading: John 3:22-33 \nAt that time\, Jesus and hi s disciples went into the land of Judea\; there He remained with them and baptized. John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim\, because there was much water there\; and people came and were baptized. For John had not yet been put in prison.\n\nNow a discussion arose between John's disciples an d a Jew over purifying. And they came to John\, and said to him\, "Rabbi\, he who was with you beyond the Jordan\, to whom you bore witness\, here h e is\, baptizing\, and all are going to him." John answered\, "No one can receive anything except what is given him from heaven. You yourselves bear me witness\, that I said\, I am not the Christ\, but I have been sent bef ore Him. He who has the bride is the bridegroom\; the friend of the brideg room\, who stands and hears him\, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voi ce\; therefore this joy of mine is now full. He must increase\, but I must decrease.\n\n"He who comes from above is above all\; he who is of the ear th belongs to the earth\, and of the earth he speaks\; he who comes from h eaven is above all. He bears witness to what he has seen and heard\, yet n o one receives his testimony\; he who receives his testimony sets his seal to this\, that God is true."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260418 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260419 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132990 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2073877223 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Bright Saturday Party (Beth Ann Papas) DESCRIPTION:Who: Beth Ann Papas\n\nFellowship gathering for Children's Mini stry\n\n CATEGORIES:Children's Ministry CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T200000 CREATED:20260406T160002Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260406T160104Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2073877223 X-TEAMUP-WHO:Beth Ann Papas END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132991 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Thomas Sunday DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 04/19/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Thomas Sunday\; Martyrs Emmanuel\, Theodore\, George\, Michael and th e other George of Samothrace\; The Holy Hieromartyr Paphnutius\; Tryphon\, Patriarch of Constantinople\; George the Confessor\; Aelphege the Hieroma rtyr of Canterbury\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: Matthew 28:16-20 \nAt that t ime\, the eleven disciples went to Galilee\, to the mountain to which Jesu s had directed them. And when they saw Him they worshiped Him\; but some d oubted. And Jesus came and said to them\, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations \, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spiri t\, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you\; and lo\, I am with you always\, to the close of the age. Amen."\n\nEpistle Reading: Act s of the Apostles 5:12-20 \nIn those days\, many signs and wonders were d one among the people by the hands of the apostles. And they were all toget her in Solomon's Portico. None of the rest dared join them\, but the peopl e held them in high honor. And more than ever believers were added to the Lord\, multitudes both of men and women\, so that they even carried out th e sick into the streets\, and laid them on beds and pallets\, that as Pete r came by at least his shadow might fall on some of them. The people also gathered from the towns around Jerusalem\, bringing the sick and those aff licted with unclean spirits\, and they were all healed. But the high pries t rose up and all who were with him\, that is\, the party of the Sadducees \, and filled with jealousy they arrested the apostles and put them in the common prison. But at night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out and said\, "Go and stand in the temple and speak to t he people all the words of this Life."\n\nGospel Reading: John 20:19-31 \ nOn the evening of that day\, the first day of the week\, the doors being shut where the disciples were for fear of the Jews\, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them\, "Peace be with you." When He had said this\, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again\, "Peace be with you. As the F ather has sent Me\, even so I send you." And when He had said this\, He br eathed on them and said to them\, "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any\, they are forgiven\; if you retain the sins of any\, the y are retained." Now Thomas\, one of the twelve\, called the Twin\, was no t with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him\, "We have se en the Lord." But he said to them\, "Unless I see in His hands the print o f the nails\, and place my finger in the mark of the nails\, and place my hand in His side\, I will not believe." Eight days later\, His disciples w ere again in the house\, and Thomas was with them. The doors were shut\, b ut Jesus came and stood among them and said\, "Peace be with you." Then He said to Thomas\, "Put your finger here\, and see My hands\; and put out y our hand\, and place it in My side\; do not be faithless\, but believing." Thomas answered Him\, "My Lord and My God!" Jesus said to him\, "Have you believed because you have seen Me? Blessed are those who have not seen an d yet believe." Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disc iples\, which are not written in this book\; but these are written that yo u may believe that Jesus is the Christ\, the Son of God\, and that believi ng\, you may have life in His name.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260419 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260420 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132991 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132992 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: 2nd Monday after Pascha DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 04/20/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 2nd Monday after Pascha\; Theodore the Trichinas\; Zacchaeus the Apos tle of Caesaria\; Gregory &\; Anastasios\, Patriarchs of Antioch\; Atha nasios\, Founder of the Monastery of Meteora\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of t he Apostles 3:19-26 \nIn those days\, Peter said to the people\, "Repent and turn again\, that your sins may be blotted out\, that times of refresh ing may come from the presence of the Lord\, and that he may send the Chri st appointed for you\, Jesus\, whom heaven must receive until the time for establishing all that God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old. Moses said\, 'The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet from your brethren as he raised me up. You shall listen to him in whatever he tells you. And it shall be that every soul that does not listen to that prophet shall be destroyed from the people.' And all the prophets who have spoken \, from Samuel and those who came afterwards\, also proclaimed these days. You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God gave to yo ur fathers\, saying to Abraham\, 'And in your posterity shall all the fami lies of the earth be blessed.' God\, having raised up his servant\, sent h im to you first\, to bless you in turning every one of you from your wicke dness."\n\nGospel Reading: John 2:1-11 \nAt that time\, there was a weddi ng at Cana in Galilee\, and the mother of Jesus was there\; Jesus also was invited to the wedding\, with his disciples. When the wine gave out\, the mother of Jesus said to him\, "They have no wine." And Jesus said to her\ , "O woman\, what have you to do with me? My hour has not yet come." His m other said to the servants\, "Do whatever he tells you." Now six stone jar s were standing there\, for the Jewish rites of purification\, each holdin g twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to them\, "Fill the jars with water ." And they filled them up to the brim. He said to them\, "Now draw some o ut\, and take it to the steward of the feast." So they took it. When the s teward of the feast tasted the water now become wine\, and did not know wh ere it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew)\, the steward of the feast called the bridegroom and said to him\, "Every man se rves the good wine first\; and when men have drunk freely\, then the poor wine\; but you have kept the good wine until now." This\, the first of his signs\, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee\, and manifested his glory\; and his disciples believed in him.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260420 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260421 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132992 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132993 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: 2nd Tuesday after Pascha DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 04/21/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 2nd Tuesday after Pascha\; The Holy Hieromartyr Januarius and Those W ith Him\; Our Holy Father Maximian\, Patriarch of Constantinople\; Theodor e the Holy Martyr &\; his mother Philippa of Perge\; Alexandra the Mart yr\; Anastasios the Monk of Sinai\; Beuno\, Abbot of Clynnog\n\nEpistle Re ading: Acts of the Apostles 4:1-10 \nIn those days\, while the apostles w ere speaking to the people\, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them\, annoyed because they were teaching the peo ple and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. And they arre sted them and put them in custody until the morrow\, for it was already ev ening. But many of those who heard the word believed\; and the number of t he men came to about five thousand.\n\nOn the morrow their rulers and elde rs and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem\, with Annas the high p riest and Caiaphas and John and Alexander\, and all who were of the high-p riestly family. And when they had set them in the midst\, they inquired\, "By what power or by what name did you do this?" Then Peter\, filled with the Holy Spirit\, said to them\, "Rulers of the people and elders\, if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a cripple\, by wha t means this man has been healed\, be it known to you all\, and to all the people of Israel\, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth\, whom yo u crucified\, whom God raised from the dead\, by him this man is standing before you well."\n\nGospel Reading: John 3:16-21 \nThe Lord said to his disciples: "God so loved the world that he gave his only Son\, that whoeve r believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God sent th e Son into the world\, not to condemn the world\, but that the world might be saved through him. He who believes in him is not condemned\; he who do es not believe is condemned already\, because he has not believed in the n ame of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment\, that the light has come into the world\, and men loved darkness rather than light\, because t heir deeds were evil. For every one who does evil hates the light\, and do es not come to the light\, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who do es what is true comes to the light\, that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been wrought in God."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260421 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260422 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132993 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132994 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 2nd Wednesday after Pascha DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 04/22/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 2nd Wednesday after Pascha\; Theodore of Sykeon\; Nathaniel\, Luke\, &\; Clemente the Apostles\; Gregory Gravanos of Nisyros\; Nearchos the Martyr\n\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 4:13-22 \nIn those days\, when the Jews saw the boldness of Pete r and John\, and perceived that they were uneducated\, common men\, they w ondered\; and they recognized that they had been with Jesus. But seeing th e man that had been healed standing beside them\, they had nothing to say in opposition. But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the cou ncil\, they conferred with one another\, saying\, "What shall we do with t hese men? For that a notable sign has been performed through them is manif est to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem\, and we cannot deny it. But in or der that it may spread no further among the people\, let us warn them to s peak no more to any one in this name." So they called them and charged the m not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John an swered them\, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you ra ther than to God\, you must judge\; for we cannot but speak of what we hav e seen and heard." And when they had further threatened them\, they let th em go\, finding no way to punish them\, because of the people\; for all me n praised God for what had happened. For the man on whom the sign of heali ng was performed was more than forty years old.\n\nGospel Reading: John 5: 17-24 \nThe Lord said to the Jews who came to him: "My Father is working still\, and I am working." This was why the Jews sought all the more to ki ll him\, because he not only broke the sabbath but also called God his own Father\, making himself equal with God.\n\nJesus said to them\, "Truly\, truly\, I say to you\, the Son can do nothing of his own accord\, but only what he sees the Father doing\; for whatever he does\, that the Son does likewise. For the Father loves the Son\, and shows him all that he himself is doing\; and greater works than these he will show him\, that you may m arvel. For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life\, so also the Son gives life to whom he will. The Father judges no one\, but has given all judgment to the Son\, that all may honor the Son\, even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who se nt him. Truly\, truly\, I say to you\, he who hears my word and believes h im who sent me\, has eternal life\; he does not come into judgment\, but h as passed from death to life."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260422 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260423 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132994 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132995 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: George the Great Martyr and Triumphant DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 04/23/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: George the Great Martyr and Triumphant\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: Luke 21:12-19 \nThe Lord said to his disciples\, "Beware of men who will lay their hands on you and persecute you\, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons\, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my n ame's sake. This will be a time for you to bear testimony. Settle it there fore in your minds\, not to meditate beforehand how to answer\; for I will give you a mouth and wisdom\, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict. You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends\, and some of you they will put to death\ ; you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But not a hair of your head will perish. By your endurance you will gain your lives."\n\nEpistle Read ing: Acts of the Apostles 12:1-11 \nAbout that time\, Herod the king laid violent hands upon some who belonged to the church. He killed James the b rother of John with the sword\; and when he saw that it pleased the Jews\, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. This was during the days of Unleavened Bread. And when he had seized him\, he put him in prison\, and delivered him to four squads of soldiers to guard him\, intending after the Passover to bring him out to the people. So Peter was kept in prison\; but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the Church.\n\nThe very night when Hero d was about to bring him out\, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers\, b ound with two chains\, and sentries before the door were guarding the pris on\; and behold\, an angel of the Lord appeared\, and a light shone in the cell\; and he struck Peter on the side and woke him\, saying\, "Get up qu ickly." And the chains fell off his hands. And the angel said to him\, "Wr ap your mantle around you and follow me." And he went out and followed him \; he did not know that what was done by the angel was real\, but thought he was seeing a vision. When they had passed the first and the second guar d\, they came to the iron gate leading into the city. It opened to them of its own accord\, and they went out and passed on through one street\; and immediately the angel left him. And Peter came to himself\, and said\, "N ow I am sure that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting."\n\nGospel R eading: John 15:17-27\; 16:1-2 \nThe Lord said to his disciples: "This I command you\, to love one another. If the world hates you\, know that it h as hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world\, the world woul d love its own\; but because you are not of the world\, but I chose you ou t of the world\, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I s aid to you\, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecute d me\, they will persecute you\; if they kept my word\, they will keep you rs also. But all this they will do to you on my account\, because they do not know him who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them\, they woul d not have sin\; but now they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates m e hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the works which no on e else did\, they would not have sin\; but now they have seen and hated bo th me and my Father. It is to fulfill the word that is written in their la w\, 'They hated me without a cause.'\n\nBut when the Counselor comes\, who m I shall send to you from the Father\, even the Spirit of truth\, who pro ceeds from the Father\, he will bear witness to me\; and you also are witn esses\, because you have been with me from the beginning. I have said all this to you to keep you from falling away. They will put you out of the sy nagogues\; indeed\, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think h e is offering service to God."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260423 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260424 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132995 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132996 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 2nd Friday after Pascha DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 04/24/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 2nd Friday after Pascha\; Elizabeth the Wonderworker\; Savvas the Gen eral of Rome\; Nicholas the New-Martyr of Magnesia\; Mellitus\, Archbishop of Canterbury\n\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 5:1-11 \nIn those days\, a man named Ananias with his wi fe Sapphira sold a piece of property\, and with his wife's knowledge he ke pt back some of the proceeds\, and brought only a part and laid it at the apostles' feet. But Peter said\, "Ananias\, why has Satan filled your hear t to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the proceeds of the l and? While it remained unsold\, did it not remain your own? And after it w as sold\, was it not at your disposal? How is it that you have contrived t his deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God." When Ananias heard these words\, he fell down and died. And great fear came upon all w ho heard of it. The young men rose and wrapped him up and carried him out and buried him. After an interval of about three hours his wife came in\, not knowing what had happened. And Peter said to her\, "Tell me whether yo u sold the land for so much." And she said\, "Yes\, for so much." But Pete r said to her\, "How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spir it of the Lord? Hark\, the feet of those that have buried your husband are at the door\, and they will carry you out." Immediately she fell down at his feet and died. When the young men came in they found her dead\, and th ey carried her out and buried her beside her husband. And great fear came upon the whole church\, and upon all who heard of these things.\n\nGospel Reading: John 5:30-47\; 6:1-2 \nThe Lord said to the Jews who came to him : "I can do nothing on my own authority\; as I hear\, I judge\; and my jud gment is just\, because I seek not my own will but the will of the Father who sent me. If I bear witness to myself\, my testimony is not true\; ther e is another who bears witness to me\, and I know that the testimony which he bears to me is true. You sent to John\, and he has borne witness to th e truth. Not that the testimony which I receive is from man\; but I say th is that you may be saved. He was a burning and shining lamp\, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. But the testimony which I ha ve is greater than that of John\; for the works which the Father has grant ed me to accomplish\, these very works which I am doing\, bear me witness that the Father has sent me. And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness to me. His voice you have never heard\, his form you have never se en\; and you do not have his word abiding in you\, for you do not believe him whom he has sent. You search the scriptures\, because you think that i n them you have eternal life\; and it is they that bear witness to me\; ye t you refuse to come to me that you may have life. I do not receive glory from men. But I know that you have not the love of God within you. I have come in my Father's name\, and you do not receive me\; if another comes in his own name\, him you will receive. How can you believe\, who receive gl ory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only Go d? Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father\; it is Moses who ac cuses you\, on whom you set your hope. If you believed Moses\, you would b elieve me\, for he wrote of me. But if you do not believe his writings\, h ow will you believe my words?"\n\nAfter this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee\, which is the Sea of Tiberias. And a multitude foll owed him\, because they saw the signs which he did on those who were disea sed.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260424 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260425 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132996 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132997 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Mark the Apostle and Evangelist DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 04/25/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Mark the Apostle and Evangelist\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Peter's First Universal Letter 5:6-14 \nBRETHREN\, humble yourselves therefore under t he mighty hand of God\, that in due time he may exalt you. Cast all your a nxieties on him\, for he cares about you. Be sober\, be watchful. Your adv ersary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion\, seeking some one to d evour. Resist him\, first in your faith\, knowing that the same experience of suffering is required of your brotherhood throughout the world. And af ter you have suffered a little while\, the God of all grace\, who has call ed you to his eternal glory in Christ\, will himself restore\, establish a nd strengthen you. To him be the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.\n\nBy S ilvanos\, a faithful brother as I regard him\, I have written briefly to y ou\, exhorting and declaring that this is the true grace of God\; stand fa st in it. She who is at Babylon\, who is likewise chosen\, sends you greet ings\; and so does my son Mark. Greet one another with the kiss of love.\n \nPeace to all of you that are in Christ.\n\nGospel Reading: Luke 10:16-21 \nThe Lord said to his disciples\, "He who hears you hears me\, and he w ho rejects you rejects me\, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me. " The seventy returned with joy\, saying\, "Lord\, even the demons are sub ject to us in your name!" And he said to them\, "I saw Satan fall like lig htning from heaven. Behold\, I have given you authority to tread upon serp ents and scorpions\, and over all the power of the enemy\; and nothing sha ll hurt you. Nevertheless do not rejoice in this\, that the spirits are su bject to you\; but rejoice that your names are written in heaven." In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said\, "I thank you\, Father \, Lord of heaven and earth\, that you have hidden these things from the w ise and understanding and revealed them to babes\; yes\, Father\, for such was your gracious will."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260425 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260426 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132997 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891132999 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 04/26/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women\; Basil the Holy Martyr Bishop of A masea\; Glaphyra the Righteous\; Justa the Nun\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: L uke 24:1-12 \nOn the first day of the week at early dawn\, the women went to the tomb\, taking spices\, which they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb\, but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were perplexed about this\, behold \, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel\; and as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground\, the men said to them\, "Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here\, but has risen. Remember h ow He told you\, while He was still in Galilee\, that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men\, and be crucified\, and on the third day rise." And they remembered His words and returning from the tomb they told all this to the eleven and to all the rest. Now it was Mary Mag dalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James and the other women with th em who told this to the Apostles\; but these words seemed to them an idle tale\, and they did not believe them. But Peter rose and ran to the tomb\; stooping and looking in\, he saw the linen cloths by themselves\; and he went home wondering at what had happened.\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 6:1-7 \nIn those days\, when the disciples were increasing in nu mber\, the Hellenists murmured against the Hebrews because their widows we re neglected in the daily distribution. And the twelve summoned the body o f the disciples and said\, "it is not right that we should give up preachi ng the word of God to serve tables. Therefore\, brethren\, pick out from a mong you seven men of good repute\, full of the Spirit and of wisdom\, who m we may appoint to this duty. But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word." And what they said pleased the whole multitu de\, and they chose Stephen\, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit\, and Philip\, and Prochoros\, and Nicanor\, and Timon\, and Parmenas\, and Nicolaos\, a proselyte of Antioch. These they set before the apostles\, a nd they prayed and laid their hands upon them. And the word of God increas ed\; and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem\, and a great many of the priests were obedient to the faith.\n\nGospel Reading : Mark 15:43-47\; 16:1-8 \nAt that time\, Joseph of Arimathea\, a respect ed member of the council\, who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God\, took courage and went to Pilate\, and asked for the body of Jesus. And Pilate wondered if he were already dead\; and summoning the centurion\ , he asked him whether he was already dead. And when he learned from the c enturion that he was dead\, he granted the body to Joseph. And he bought a linen shroud\, and taking him down\, wrapped him in the linen shroud\, an d laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out of the rock\; and he rolled a stone against the door of the tomb. Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was laid.\n\nAnd when the sabbath was past\, Mary Magd alene\, and Mary the mother of James\, and Salome\, bought spices\, so tha t they might go and anoint him. And very early on the first day of the wee k they went to the tomb when the sun had risen. And they were saying to on e another\, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the door of the tomb ?" And looking up\, they saw that the stone was rolled back\; for it was v ery large. And entering the tomb\, they saw a young man sitting on the rig ht side\, dressed in a white robe\; and they were amazed. And he said to t hem\, "Do not be amazed\; you seek Jesus of Nazareth\, who was crucified. He has risen\, he is not here\; see the place where they laid him. But go\ , tell his disciples and Peter that he is going before you to Galilee\; th ere you will see him\, as he told you." And they went out and fled from th e tomb\; for trembling and astonishment had come upon them\; and they said nothing to anyone\, for they were afraid.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260426 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260427 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891132999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133000 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: 3rd Monday after Pascha DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 04/27/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 3rd Monday after Pascha\; The Holy Hieromartyr Symeon\, Kinsman of th e Lord\; Eulogios the Innkeeper of Constantinople\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 6:8-15\; 7:1-5\, 47-60 \nIn those days\, Stephen\, full of grace and power\, did great wonders and signs among the people. Then so me of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was calle d)\, and of the Cyrenians\, and of the Alexandrians\, and of those from Ci licia and Asia\, arose and disputed with Stephen. But they could not withs tand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke. Then they secretly ins tigated men\, who said\, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words agains t Moses and God." And they stirred up the people and the elders and the sc ribes\, and they came upon him and seized him and brought him before the c ouncil\, and set up false witnesses who said\, "This man never ceases to s peak words against this holy place and the law\; for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place\, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us." And gazing at him\, all who sat in the council saw that his face was like the face of an angel.\n\nAnd the hi gh priest said\, "Is this so?" And Stephen said: "Brethren and fathers\, h ear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham\, when he was in M esopotamia\, before he lived in Haran\, and said to him\, 'Depart from you r land and from your kindred and go into the land which I will show you.' Then he departed from the land of the Chaldeans\, and lived in Haran. And after his father died\, God removed him from there into this land in which you are now living\; yet he gave him no inheritance in it\, not even a fo ot's length\, but promised to give it to him in possession and to his post erity after him\, though he had no child.\n\n"But it was Solomon who built a house for him. Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made with han ds\; as the prophet says\, 'Heaven is my throne\, and earth my footstool. What house will you build for me\, says the Lord\, or what is the place of my rest? Did not my hand make all these things?'\n\n"You stiff-necked peo ple\, uncircumcised in heart and ears\, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did\, so do you. Which of the prophets did not your fathe rs persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One\, whom you have now betrayed and murdered\, you who rec eived the law as delivered by angels and did not keep it."\n\nNow when the y heard these things they were enraged\, and they ground their teeth again st him. But he\, full of the Holy Spirit\, gazed into heaven and saw the g lory of God\, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God\; and he said\, "Behold\, I see the heavens opened\, and the Son of man standing at the ri ght hand of God." But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their e ars and rushed together upon him. Then they cast him out of the city and s toned him\; and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a yo ung man named Saul. And as they were stoning Stephen\, he prayed\, "Lord J esus\, receive my spirit." And he knelt down and cried with a loud voice\, "Lord\, do not hold this sin against them." And when he had said this\, h e fell asleep.\n\nGospel Reading: John 4:46-54 \nAt that time\, there was an official whose son was ill. When he heard that Jesus had come from Jud ea to Galilee\, he went and begged him to come down and heal his son\, for he was at the point of death. Jesus therefore said to him\, "Unless you s ee signs and wonders you will not believe." The official said to him\, "Si r\, come down before my child dies." Jesus said to him\, "Go\; your son wi ll live." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went his w ay. As he was going down\, his servants met him and told him that his son was living. So he asked them the hour when he began to mend\, and they sai d to him\, "Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him." The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him\, "Your son will live"\; and he himself believed\, and all his household. This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260427 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260428 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133001 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: 3rd Tuesday after Pascha DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 04/28/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 3rd Tuesday after Pascha\; The Holy Nine Martyrs of Cyzicus\; John th e Martyr of Romania\; Memnon the Wonderworker\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 8:5-17 \nIn those days\, Philip went down to a city of Samar ia\, and proclaimed to them the Christ. And the multitudes with one accord gave heed to what was said by Philip\, when they heard him and saw the si gns which he did. For unclean spirits came out of many who were possessed\ , crying with a loud voice\; and many who were paralyzed or lame were heal ed. So there was much joy in the city.\n\nBut there was a man named Simon who had previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the nation of Sa maria\, saying that he himself was somebody great. They all gave heed to h im\, from the least to the greatest\, saying\, "This man is that power of God which is called Great." And they gave heed to him\, because for a long time he had amazed them with his magic. But when they believed Philip as he preached good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Chris t\, they were baptized\, both men and women. Even Simon himself believed\, and after being baptized he continued with Philip. And seeing signs and g reat miracles performed\, he was amazed.\n\nNow when the apostles at Jerus alem heard that Samaria had received the word of God\, they sent to them P eter and John\, who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit\; for it had not yet fallen on any of them\, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid their han ds on them and they received the Holy Spirit.\n\nGospel Reading: John 6:27 -33 \nThe Lord said to the Jews who came to him: "Do not labor for the fo od which perishes\, but for the food which endures to eternal life\, which the Son of man will give to you\; for on him has God the Father set his s eal." Then they said to him\, "What must we do\, to be doing the works of God?" Jesus answered them\, "This is the work of God\, that you believe in him whom he has sent." So they said to him\, "Then what sign do you do\, that we may see\, and believe you? What work do you perform? Our fathers a te the manna in the wilderness\; as it is written\, 'He gave them bread fr om heaven to eat.'" Jesus then said to them\, "Truly\, truly\, I say to yo u\, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven\; my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes d own from heaven and gives life to the world."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260428 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260429 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133001 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133002 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 3rd Wednesday after Pascha DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 04/29/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 3rd Wednesday after Pascha\; Jason and Sosipater the Apostles of the 70 and their Companions\; Holy Martyr Cercyra\; Our Holy Father John of Ka loktenos\, Metropolitan of Thebes\; Basil\, Bishop of Montenegro\; Nektari os the New Martyr of Optina\n\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 8:18-25 \nIn those days\, when Simon saw th at the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands\, he offered them money\, saying\, "Give me also this power\, that any one on w hom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit." But Peter said to him\, " Your silver perish with you\, because you thought you could obtain the gif t of God with money! You have neither part nor lot in this matter\, for yo ur heart is not right before God. Repent therefore of this wickedness of y ours\, and pray to the Lord that\, if possible\, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you. For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity." And Simon answered\, "Pray for me to the Lord\, that nothing of what you have said may come upon me."\n\nNow when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord\, they returned to Jerusalem\, preaching the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans.\n\nGospel Reading : John 6:35-39 \nThe Lord said to the Jews who believed in him: "I am the bread of life\; he who comes to me shall not hunger\, and he who believes in me shall never thirst. But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. All that the Father gives me will come to me\; and him wh o comes to me I will not cast out. For I have come down from heaven\, not to do my own will\, but the will of him who sent me\; and this is the will of him who sent me\, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me\, but raise it up at the last day."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260429 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260430 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133003 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: James the Apostle and brother of St. John the Theologian DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 04/30/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: James the Apostle and brother of St. John the Theologian\; Argyra the New Martyr\; Clement the Hymnographer\; Erconwald\, Bishop of London\n\nE pistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 12:1-11 \nAbout that time\, Herod th e king laid violent hands upon some who belonged to the church. He killed James the brother of John with the sword\; and when he saw that it pleased the Jews\, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. This was during the days of Unleavened Bread. And when he had seized him\, he put him in prison\, and delivered him to four squads of soldiers to guard him\, intending after t he Passover to bring him out to the people. So Peter was kept in prison\; but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the Church.\n\nThe very nigh t when Herod was about to bring him out\, Peter was sleeping between two s oldiers\, bound with two chains\, and sentries before the door were guardi ng the prison\; and behold\, an angel of the Lord appeared\, and a light s hone in the cell\; and he struck Peter on the side and woke him\, saying\, "Get up quickly." And the chains fell off his hands. And the angel said t o him\, "Wrap your mantle around you and follow me." And he went out and f ollowed him\; he did not know that what was done by the angel was real\, b ut thought he was seeing a vision. When they had passed the first and the second guard\, they came to the iron gate leading into the city. It opened to them of its own accord\, and they went out and passed on through one s treet\; and immediately the angel left him. And Peter came to himself\, an d said\, "Now I am sure that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me fr om the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting."\ n\nGospel Reading: Luke 9:1-6 \nAt that time\, Jesus called the twelve to gether and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure disea ses\, and he sent them out to preach the kingdom of God and to heal. And h e said to them\, "Take nothing for your journey\, no staff\, nor bag\, nor bread\, nor money\; and do not have two tunics. And whatever house you en ter\, stay there\, and from there depart. And wherever they do not receive you\, when you leave that town shake off the dust from your feet as a tes timony against them." And they departed and went through the villages\, pr eaching the gospel and healing everywhere.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260430 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260501 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133003 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133004 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 3rd Friday after Pascha DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 05/01/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 3rd Friday after Pascha\; Jeremias the Prophet\; New Martyr Maria of Fourna\, Mirabella in Crete\; Tamara (Tamar)\, Queen of Georgia\; Nikiforo s the Monk of Chios\; Synaxis of the Three New Righteous Martyrs of the Ho ly Mountain\, Euthymius\, Ignatius\, and Acacius\; Asaph\, Bishop of Wales \n\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apostl es 8:40\; 9:1-19 \nIn those days\, Philip was found at Azotos\, and passi ng on he preached the gospel to all the towns till he came to Caesarea. Bu t Saul\, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the L ord\, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus\, so that if he found any belonging to the Way\, men or women\ , he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. Now as he journeyed he approache d Damascus\, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed about him. And he fe ll to the ground and heard a voice saying to him\, "Saul\, Saul\, why do y ou persecute me?" And he said\, "Who are you\, Lord?" And he said\, " I am Jesus\, whom you are persecuting\; but rise and enter the city\, and you will be told what you are to do." The men who were traveling with him stoo d speechless\, hearing the voice but seeing no one. Saul arose from the gr ound\; and when his eyes were opened\, he could see nothing\; so they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus. And for three days he was w ithout sight\, and neither ate nor drank.\n\nNow there was a disciple at D amascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision\, "Ananias." And h e said\, "Here I am\, Lord." And the Lord said to him\, "Rise and go to th e street called Straight\, and inquire in the house of Judas for a man of Tarsus named Saul\; for behold\, he is praying\, and he has seen a man nam ed Ananias come in and lay his hands on him so that he might regain his si ght." But Ananias answered\, "Lord\, I have heard from many about this man \, how much evil he has done to thy saints at Jerusalem\; and here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call upon thy name." But the Lord said to him\, "Go\, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carr y my name before the Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel\; for I wil l show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name." So Ananias de parted and entered the house. And laying his hands on him he said\, "Broth er Saul\, the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the road by which you came \, has sent me that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit." And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes and he r egained his sight. Then he rose and was baptized\, and took food and was s trengthened.\n\nGospel Reading: John 6:48-54 \nThe Lord said to the Jews who believed in him: "I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna i n the wilderness\, and they died. This is the bread which comes down from heaven\, that a man may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven\; if any one eats of this bread\, he will live fore ver\; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my fle sh."\n\nThe Jews then disputed among themselves\, saying\, "How can this m an give us his flesh to eat?" So Jesus said to them\, "Truly\, truly\, I s ay to you\, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood \, you have no life in you\; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life\, and I will raise him up at the last day."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260501 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260502 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133004 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2082105122 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Pascha Party CATEGORIES:Children's Ministry CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T190000 CREATED:20260420T153648Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2082105122 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133005 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Removal of the Relics of St. Athanasius the Great DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 05/02/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Removal of the Relics of St. Athanasius the Great\; Hesperos &\; Z oe the Righteous\; Boris\, King &\; Enlightener of Bulgaria (Michael in Baptism)\; Jordan the Wonderworker\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 13:7-16 \nBrethren\, remember your leaders\, those who spo ke to you the word of God\; consider the outcome of their lives\, and imit ate their faith. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever . Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings\; for it is well tha t the heart be strengthened by grace\, not by foods\, which have not benef ited their adherents. We have an altar from which those who serve the tent have no right to eat. For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brou ght into the sanctuary by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burne d outside the camp. So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sa nctify the people through his own blood. Therefore let us go forth to him outside the camp and bear the abuse he endured. For here we have no lastin g city\, but we seek the city which is to come. Through him then let us co ntinually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God\, that is\, the fruit of l ips that acknowledge his name. Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have\, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.\n\nGospel Reading: Ma tthew 5:14-19 \nThe Lord said to his disciples\, "You are the light of th e world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid. Nor do men light a lamp and p ut it under a bushel\, but on a stand\, and it gives light to all in the h ouse. Let your light so shine before men\, that they may see your good wor ks and give glory to your Father who is in heaven. Think not that I have c ome to abolish the law and the prophets\; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly\, I say to you\, till heaven and earth pass away\, not an iota\, not a dot\, will pass from the law until all is acco mplished. Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so\, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven\; but he w ho does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heav en."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260502 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260503 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133005 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133006 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Sunday of the Paralytic DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 05/03/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Sunday of the Paralytic\; The Holy Martyrs Timothy and Maura\; Peter the Wonderworker\; Theophan\, Bishop of Peritheorion\; Xenia of Kalamata t he Great Martyr\; Father Theodosius\, Abbot of Kiev Caves Lavra\; Ahmet th e Calligrapher &\; Martyr\; Oikoumenios the Wonderworker\, Bishop of Tr ikka\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: Luke 24:12-35 \nAt that time\, \\[Peter ro se and ran to the tomb\; stooping and looking in\, he saw the linen cloths by themselves\; and he went home wondering at what had happened. That ver y day\\] two of them were going to a village named Emmaus\, about seven mi les from Jerusalem\, and talking with each other about all these things th at had happened. While they were talking and discussing together\, Jesus H imself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were kept from recogni zing Him. And He said to them\, "What is this conversation which you are h olding with each other as you walk?" and they stood still\, looking sad. T hen one of them\, named Cleopas\, answered Him\, "Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in the se days?" And He said to them\, "What things?" And they said to him\, "Con cerning Jesus of Nazareth\, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word befo re God and all the people\, and how our chief priests and rulers delivered Him up to be condemned to death\, and crucified Him. But we had hoped tha t He was the one to redeem Israel. Yes\, and besides all this\, it is now the third day since this happened. Moreover\, some women of our company am azed us. They were at the tomb early in the morning and did not find His b ody\; and they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels \, who said that He was alive. Some of those who were with us went to the tomb\, and found it just as the women had said\; but Him they did not see. " And He said to them\, "O foolish men\, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was not it necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into this glory?" And beginning with Moses and all the prophets\, He interpreted to them in all the scriptures the th ings concerning Himself. So they drew near to the village to which they we re going. He appeared to be going further\, but they constrained Him\, say ing\, "Stay with us\, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spen t." So He went in to stay with them. When He was at table with them\, He t ook the bread and blessed\, and broke it\, and gave it to them. And their eyes were opened and they recognized Him\; and He vanished out of their si ght. They said to each other\, "Did not our hearts burn within us while He talked to us on the road\, while He opened to us the scriptures?" And the y rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem\; and they found the eleve n gathered together and those who were with them\, who said\, "The Lord ha s risen indeed\, and has appeared to Simon!" Then they told what had happe ned on the road and how He was known to them in the breaking of the bread. \n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 9:32-42 \nIn those days\, as Pe ter went here and there among them all\, he came down also to the saints t hat lived at Lydda. There he found a man named Aeneas\, who had been bedri dden for eight years and was paralyzed. And Peter said to him\, "Aeneas\, Jesus Christ heals you\; rise and make your bed." And immediately he rose. And all the residents of Lydda and Sharon saw him\, and they turned to th e Lord. Now there was at Joppa a disciple named Tabitha\, which means Dorc as. She was full of good works and acts of charity. In those days she fell sick and died\; and when they had washed her\, they laid her in an upper room. Since Lydda was near Joppa\, the disciples\, hearing that Peter was there\, sent two men to him entreating him\, "Please come to us without de lay." So Peter rose and went with them. And when he had come\, they took h im to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him weeping\, and showin g tunics and other garments which Dorcas made while she was with them. But Peter put them all outside and knelt down and prayed\; then turning to th e body he said\, "Tabitha\, rise." And she opened her eyes\, and when she saw Peter she sat up. And he gave her his hand and lifted her up. Then cal ling the saints and widows he presented her alive. And it became known thr oughout all Joppa\, and many believed in the Lord.\n\nGospel Reading: John 5:1-15 \nAt that time\, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jeru salem by the Sheep Gate a pool\, in Hebrew called Bethesda which has five porticoes. In these lay a multitude of invalids\, blind\, lame\, paralyzed \, waiting for the moving of the water\; for an angel of the Lord went dow n at certain seasons into the pool\, and troubled the water\; whoever step ped in first after the troubling of the water was healed of whatever disea se he had. One man was there\, who had been ill for thirty-eight years. Wh en Jesus saw him and knew that he had been lying there a long time\, he sa id to him\, "Do you want to be healed?" The sick man answered him\, "Sir\, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is troubled\, and wh ile I am going another steps down before me." Jesus said to him\, "Rise\, take up your pallet\, and walk." And at once the man was healed\, and he t ook up his pallet and walked.\n\nNow that day was the sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who was cured\, "It is the sabbath\, it is not lawful for you to carry your pallet." But he answered them\, "The man who healed me said to me\, 'Take up your pallet\, and walk.' "They asked him\, "Who is t he man who said to you\, 'Take up your pallet\, and walk'?" Now the man wh o had been healed did not know who it was\, for Jesus had withdrawn\, as t here was a crowd in the place. Afterward\, Jesus found him in the temple\, and said to him\, "See\, you are well! Sin no more\, that nothing worse b efall you." The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260503 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260504 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133006 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133007 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: 4th Monday after Pascha DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 05/04/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 4th Monday after Pascha\; Pelagia the Nun-martyr of Tarsus\; Hilary t he Wonderworker\; Euthemios\, Bishop of Madytos\; Athanasios\, Bishop of C orinth\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 10:1-16 \nIn those days\, at Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius\, a centurion of what was kno wn as the Italian Cohort\, a devout man who feared God with all his househ old\, gave alms liberally to the people\, and prayed constantly to God. Ab out the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God c oming in and saying to him\, "Cornelius." And he stared at him in terror\, and said\, "What is it\, Lord?" And he said to him\, "Your prayers and yo ur alms have ascended as a memorial before God. And now send men to Joppa\ , and bring one Simon who is called Peter\; he is lodging with Simon\, a t anner\, whose house is by the seaside." When the angel who spoke to him ha d departed\, he called two of his servants and a devout soldier from among those that waited on him\, and having related everything to them\, he sen t them to Joppa. The next day\, as they were on their journey and coming n ear the city\, Peter went up on the housetop to pray\, about the sixth hou r. And he became hungry and desired something to eat\; but while they were preparing it\, he fell into a trance and saw the heaven opened\, and some thing descending\, like a great sheet\, let down by four corners upon the earth. In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air. And there came a voice to him\, "Rise\, Peter\; kill and eat." But Peter s aid\, "No\, Lord\; for I have never eaten anything that is common or uncle an." And the voice came to him again a second time\, "What God has cleanse d\, you must not call common." This happened three times\, and the thing w as taken up at once to heaven.\n\nGospel Reading: John 6:56-69 \nThe Lord said to the Jews who had believed in him\, "He who eats my flesh and drin ks my blood abides in me\, and I in him. As the living Father sent me\, an d I live because of the Father\, so he who eats me will live because of me . This is the bread which came down from heaven\, not such as the fathers ate and died\; he who eats this bread will live forever." This he said in the synagogue\, as he taught at Capernaum.\n\nMany of his disciples\, when they heard it\, said\, "This is a hard saying\; who can listen to it?" Bu t Jesus\, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at it\, said to t hem\, "Do you take offense at this?" Then what if you were to see the Son of man ascending where he was before? It is the spirit that gives life\, t he flesh is of no avail\; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit a nd life. But there are some of you that do not believe." For Jesus knew fr om the first who those were that did not believe\, and who it was that wou ld betray him. And he said\, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father."\n\nAfter this many of his d isciples drew back and no longer went about with him. Jesus said to the tw elve\, "Do you also wish to go away?" Simon Peter answered him\, "Lord\, t o whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life\; and we have belie ved\, and have come to know\, that you are Christ\, the Son of the living God."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260504 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260505 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133007 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133008 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: 4th Tuesday after Pascha DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 05/05/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 4th Tuesday after Pascha\; Irene the Great Martyr\; Neophytos\, Gaius \, &\; Caianus the Monk-martyrs\; The Righteous Martyr Ephraim the Youn ger\; Euthymios the Wonderworker\, Bishop of Madytos\n\nEpistle Reading: A cts of the Apostles 10:21-33 \nIn those days\, Peter went down to the men sent by Cornelius to him and said\, "I am the one you are looking for\; w hat is the reason for your coming?" And they said\, "Cornelius\, a centuri on\, an upright and God-fearing man\, who is well-spoken of by the whole J ewish nation\, was directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house\, and to hear what you have to say." So he called them in to be his guests. The next day he rose and went off with them\, and some of the bre thren from Joppa accompanied him. And on the following day they entered Ca esarea. Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his kinsmen a nd close friends. When Peter entered\, Cornelius met him and fell down at his feet and worshiped him. But Peter lifted him up\, saying\, "Stand up\; I too am a man." And as he talked with him\, he went in and found many pe rsons gathered\; and he said to them\, "You yourselves know how unlawful i t is for a Jew to associate with or to visit any one of another nation\; b ut God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean. So w hen I was sent for\, I came without objection. I ask then why you sent for me." And Cornelius said\, "Four days ago\, about this hour\, I was keepin g the ninth hour of prayer in my house\; and behold\, a man stood before m e in bright apparel\, saying\, 'Cornelius\, your prayer has been heard and your alms have been remembered before God. Send therefore to Joppa and as k for Simon who is called Peter\; he is lodging in the house of Simon\, a tanner\, by the seaside.' So I sent to you at once\, and you have been kin d enough to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of Go d\, to hear all that you have been commanded by the Lord."\n\nGospel Readi ng: John 7:1-13 \nAt that time\, Jesus went about in Galilee\; he would n ot go about in Judea\, because the Jews sought to kill him. Now the Jews' feast of Tabernacles was at hand. So his brothers said to him\, "Leave her e and go to Judea\, that your disciples may see the works you are doing. F or no man works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things\, show yourself to the world." For even his brothers did not believ e in him. Jesus said to them\, "My time has not yet come\, but your time i s always here. The world cannot hate you\, but it hates me because I testi fy of it that its works are evil. Go to the feast yourselves\; I am not go ing up to this feast\, for my time has not yet fully come." So saying\, he remained in Galilee.\n\nBut after his brothers had gone up to the feast\, then he also went up\, not publicly but in private. The Jews were looking for him at the feast\, and saying\, "Where is he?" And there was much mut tering about him among the people. While some said\, "He is a good man\," others said\, "No\, he is leading the people astray." Yet for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260505 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260506 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133009 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🐟 4th Wednesday after Pascha - Mid-Pentecost DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 05/06/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 4th Wednesday after Pascha - Mid-Pentecost\; Job the Prophet\; Our Ho ly Father Seraphim the Struggler of Mt. Domvu\; Sophia of Kleisoura\n\nFas t Day (Fish Allowed)\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 14:6-18 \nI n those days\, the apostles fled to Lystra and Derbe\, cities of Lycaonia\ , and to the surrounding country\; and there they preached the gospel. Now at Lystra there was a man sitting\, who could not use his feet\; he was a cripple from birth\, who had never walked. He listened to Paul speaking\; and Paul\, looking intently at him and seeing that he had faith to be mad e well\, said in a loud voice\, "Stand upright on your feet." And he spran g up and walked. And when the crowds saw what Paul had done\, they lifted up their voices\, saying in Lycaonian\, "The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!" Barnabas they called Zeus\, and Paul\, because he wa s the chief speaker\, they called Hermes. And the priest of Zeus\, whose t emple was in front of the city\, brought oxen and garlands to the gates an d wanted to offer sacrifice with the people. But when the apostles Barnaba s and Paul heard of it\, they tore their garments and rushed out among the multitude\, crying\, "Men\, why are you doing this? We also are men\, of like nature with you\, and bring you good news\, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God who made the heaven and the earth and t he sea and all that is in them. In past generations he allowed all the nat ions to walk in their own ways\; yet he did not leave himself without witn ess\, for he did good and gave you from heaven rains and fruitful seasons\ , satisfying your hearts with food and gladness." With these words they sc arcely restrained the people from offering sacrifice to them.\n\nGospel Re ading: John 7:14-30 \nAbout the middle of the feast Jesus went up into th e temple and taught. The Jews marveled at it saying\, "How is it that this man has learning\, when he has never studied?" So Jesus answered them\, " My teaching is not mine\, but his who sent me\; if any man's will is to do his will\, he shall know whether the teacher is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority. He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory\; but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true\, and in him there is not falsehood. Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?" The people answered\, "Yo u have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?" Jesus answered them\, "I did one deed\, and you all marvel at it. Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses\, but from the fathers)\, and you circumcise a man upon the sabbath. If on the sabbath a man receives circumcision\, so that the l aw of Moses may not be broken\, are you angry with me because on the sabba th I made a man's whole body well? Do not judge by appearances\, but judge with right judgment."\n\nSome of the people of Jerusalem therefore said\, "Is not this the man whom they seek to kill? And here he is\, speaking op enly\, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Christ? Yet we know where this man comes from\; and when the Christ appears\, no one will know where he comes from." So Jesus proclaimed\, as he taught in the temple\, "You know me\, and you know wher e I come from? But I have not come of my own accord\; he who sent me is tr ue\, and him you do not know. I know him\, for I come from him\, and he se nt me." So they sought to arrest him\; but no one laid hands on him\, beca use his hour had not yet come.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260506 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260507 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133009 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133010 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Commemoration of the Precious Cross that appeared in the sky over Jerusalem in 351 A.D. DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 05/07/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Commemoration of the Precious Cross that appeared in the sky over Jer usalem in 351 A.D.\; Cyril\, Archbishop of Jerusalem\; Akakios the Centuri on of Byzantium\; Repose of St. Nilus\, abbot of Sora\; Pachomios the New Martyr of Patmos\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 26:1\, 12-20 \n IN THOSE DAYS\, King Agrippa said to Paul\, "You have permission to speak for yourself." Then Paul stretched out his hand and made his defense: "I j ourneyed to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priest s. At midday\, O king\, I saw on the way a light from heaven\, brighter th an the sun\, shining round me and those who journeyed with me. And when we had all fallen to the ground\, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language\, 'Saul\, Saul\, why do you persecute me? It hurts you to kick a gainst the goads.' And I said\, 'Who are you\, Lord?' And the Lord said\, 'I am Jesus whom you are persecuting. But rise and stand upon your feet\; for I have appeared to you for this purpose\, to appoint you to serve and bear witness to the things in which you have seen me and to those in which I will appear to you\, delivering you from the people and from the Gentil es-to whom I send you to open their eyes\, that they may turn from darknes s to light and from the power of Satan to God\, that they may receive forg iveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me. ' "Wherefore\, O King Agrippa\, I was not disobedient to the heavenly visi on\, but declared first to those at Damascus\, then at Jerusalem and throu ghout all the country of Judea\, and also to the Gentiles\, that they shou ld repent and turn to God and perform deeds worthy of their repentance."\n \nGospel Reading: John 8:12-20 \nAgain Jesus spoke to them\, saying\, "I am the light of the world\; he who follows me will not walk in darkness\, but will have the light of life." The Pharisees then said to him\, "You ar e bearing witness to yourself\; your testimony is not true." Jesus answere d\, "Even if I do bear witness to myself\, my testimony is true\, for I kn ow whence I have come and whither I am going\, but you do not know whence I come or whither I am going. You judge according to the flesh\, I judge n o one. Yet even if I do judge\, my judgment is true\, for it is not I alon e that judge\, but I and he who sent me. In your law it is written that th e testimony of two men is true\; I bear witness to myself\, and the Father who sent me bears witness to me." They said to him therefore\, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered\, "You know neither me nor my Father\; if you knew me\, you would know my Father also." These words he spoke in the tre asury\, as he taught in the temple\; but no one arrested him\, because his hour had not yet come.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260507 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260508 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133010 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133011 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 Synaxis of the Holy Powder (or manna) which emitted from the t omb of Saint John the Theologian DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 05/08/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Synaxis of the Holy Powder (or manna) which emitted from the tomb of Saint John the Theologian \; Arsenios the Great\n\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: John 21:15-25 \nAt that time\, Jesus r evealed himself to his disciples after he was raised from the dead\, and h e said to Simon Peter\, "Simon\, son of John\, do you love me more than th ese?" He said to him\, "Yes\, Lord\; you know that I love you." He said to him\, "Feed my lambs." A second time he said to him\, "Simon\, son of Joh n\, do you love me?" He said to him\, "Yes\, Lord\; you know that I love y ou." He said to him\, "Tend my sheep." He said to him the third time\, "Si mon\, son of John\, do you love me?" Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time\, "Do you love me?" And he said to him\, "Lord\, you kn ow everything\; you know that I love you." Jesus said to him\, "Feed my sh eep. Truly\, truly\, I say to you\, when you were young\, you girded yours elf and walked where you would\; but when you are old\, you will stretch o ut your hands\, and another will gird you and carry you where you do not w ish to go." (This he said to show by what death he was to glorify God.) An d after this he said to him\, "Follow me." Peter turned and saw following them the disciple whom Jesus loved\, who had lain close to his breast at t he supper and had said\, "Lord\, who is it that is going to betray you?" W hen Peter saw him\, he said to Jesus\, "Lord\, what about this man?" Jesus said to him\, "If it is my will that he remain until I come\, what is tha t to you? Follow me!" The saying spread abroad among the brethren that thi s disciple was not to die\; yet Jesus did not say to him that he was not t o die\, but\, "If it is my will that he remain until I come\, what is that to you?" This is the disciple who is bearing witness to these things\, an d who has written these things\; and we know that his testimony is true. B ut there are also many other things which Jesus did\; were every one of th em to be written\, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the b ooks that would be written.\n\nEpistle Reading: St. John's First Universal Letter 1:1-7 \nTHAT WHICH WAS from the beginning\, which we have heard\, which we have seen with our eyes\, which we have looked upon and touched with our hands\, concerning the word of life - the life was made manifest\ , and we saw it\, and testify to it\, and proclaim to you the eternal life which was with the Father and was made manifest to us - that which we hav e seen and heard we proclaim also to you\, so that you may have fellowship with us\; and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Ch rist. And we are writing this that our joy may be complete.\n\nThis is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you\, that God is light an d in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him whil e we walk in darkness\, we lie and do not live according to the truth\; bu t if we walk in the light\, as he is in the light\, we have fellowship wit h one another\, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.\n \nGospel Reading: John 19:25-28\, 21:24-25 \nAt that time\, standing by t he cross of Jesus were his mother\, and his mother's sister\, Mary the wif e of Clopas\, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother\, and the disc iple whom he loved standing near\, he said to his mother\, "Woman\, behold \, your son!" Then he said to the disciple\, "Behold\, your mother!" And f rom that hour the disciple took her to his own home. This is the disciple who is bearing witness to these things\, and who has written these things\ ; and we know that his testimony is true. But there are also many other th ings which Jesus did\; were every one of them to be written\, I suppose th at the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260508 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260509 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133011 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133012 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: The Holy Prophet Esaias (Isaiah) DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 05/09/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: The Holy Prophet Esaias (Isaiah)\; Christopher the Martyr of Lycea\; Elder Hieronymos of Simonopetra\; Monk-martyr Nicholas who lived in Vuneni \, of Larissa in Thessaly\; Epimachos the New Martyr of Alexandria\; The N ew Martyrs of Novo Selo\, Bulgaria\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apostle s 12:1-11 \nAbout that time\, Herod the king laid violent hands upon some who belonged to the church. He killed James the brother of John with the sword\; and when he saw that it pleased the Jews\, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. This was during the days of Unleavened Bread. And when he had seized him\, he put him in prison\, and delivered him to four squads of so ldiers to guard him\, intending after the Passover to bring him out to the people. So Peter was kept in prison\; but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the Church.\n\nThe very night when Herod was about to bring him out\, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers\, bound with two chains\, a nd sentries before the door were guarding the prison\; and behold\, an ang el of the Lord appeared\, and a light shone in the cell\; and he struck Pe ter on the side and woke him\, saying\, "Get up quickly." And the chains f ell off his hands. And the angel said to him\, "Wrap your mantle around yo u and follow me." And he went out and followed him\; he did not know that what was done by the angel was real\, but thought he was seeing a vision. When they had passed the first and the second guard\, they came to the iro n gate leading into the city. It opened to them of its own accord\, and th ey went out and passed on through one street\; and immediately the angel l eft him. And Peter came to himself\, and said\, "Now I am sure that the Lo rd has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all t hat the Jewish people were expecting."\n\nGospel Reading: John 8:31-42 \n The Lord said to the Jews who had believed in him\, "If you continue in my word\, you are truly my disciples\, and you will know the truth\, and the truth will make you free." They answered him\, "We are descendants of Abr aham\, and have never been in bondage to any one. How is it that you say\, 'You will be made free'?"\n\nJesus answered them\, "Truly\, truly\, I say to you\, every one who commits sin is a slave to sin. The slave does not continue in the house for ever\; the son continues for ever. So if the Son makes you free\, you will be free indeed. I know that you are descendants of Abraham\; yet you seek to kill me\, because my word finds no place in you. I speak of what I have seen with my Father\, and you do what you have heard from your father."\n\nThey answered him\, "Abraham is our father." Jesus said to them\, "If you were Abraham's children\, you would do what A braham did\, but now you seek to kill me\, a man who has told you the trut h which I heard from God\; this is not what Abraham did. You do what your father did." They said to him\, "We were not born of fornication\; we have one Father\, even God." Jesus said to them\, "If God were your Father\, y ou would love me\, for I proceeded and came forth from God\; I came not of my own accord\, but he sent me."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260509 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260510 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133012 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133013 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Sunday of the Samaritan Woman DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 05/10/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Sunday of the Samaritan Woman\; Simon the Zealot &\; Apostle\; Lau rence of Egypt\; Isodora of Egypt\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: John 20:1-10 \nOn the first day of the week\, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early\, w hile it was still dark\, and saw that the stone had been taken away from t he tomb. So she ran\, and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple\, the one whom Jesus loved\, and said to them\, "They have taken the Lord out o f the tomb\, and we do not know where they have laid Him." Peter then came out with the other disciple\, and they went toward the tomb. They both ra n\, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first\; and s tooping to look in\, he saw the linen cloths lying there\, but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came\, following him\, and went into the tomb\; he saw the linen cloths lying and the napkin\, which had been on His head\, not lying with the linen cloths\, but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple\, who reached the tomb first\, also went in\, and he s aw and believed\; for as yet they did not know the scripture\, that He mus t rise from the dead. Then the disciples went back to their homes.\n\nEpis tle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 11:19-30 \nIn those days\, those apostl es who were scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen t raveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch\, speaking the word to none except Jews. But there were some of them\, men of Cyprus and Cyrene\, who on coming to Antioch spoke to the Greeks also\, preaching the Lord Je sus. And the hand of the Lord was with them\, and a great number that beli eved turned to the Lord. News of this came to the ears of the church in Je rusalem\, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch. When he came and saw the grac e of God\, he was glad\; and he exhorted them all to remain faithful to th e Lord with steadfast purpose\; for he was a good man\, full of the Holy S pirit and of faith. And a large company was added to the Lord. So Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul\; and when he had found him\, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church\, and taught a l arge company of people\; and in Antioch the disciples were for the first t ime called Christians. Now in these days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. And one of them named Agabos stood up and foretold by the Spi rit that there would be a great famine over all the world\; and this took place in the days of Claudius. And the disciples determined\, every one ac cording to his ability\, to send relief to the brethren who lived in Judea \, and they did so\, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.\n\nGospel Reading: John 4:5-42 \nAt that time\, Jesus came to a cit y of Samaria\, called Sychar\, near the field that Jacob gave to his son J oseph. Jacob's well was there\, and so Jesus\, wearied as he was with his journey\, sat down beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.\n\nThere came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her\, "Give me a drin k." For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. The Samarit an woman said to him\, "How is it that you\, a Jew\, ask a drink of me\, a woman of Samaria?" For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. Jesus answe red her\, "If you knew the gift of God\, and who it is that is saying to y ou\, 'Give me a drink\,' you would have asked him and he would have given you living water." The woman said to him\, "Sir\, you have nothing to draw with\, and the well is deep\; where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob\, who gave us the well\, and drank from it himself\, and his sons\, and his cattle?" Jesus said to her\, "Everyone wh o drinks of this water will thirst again\, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst\; the water that I shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." The wom an said to him\, "Sir\, give me this water\, that I may not thirst\, nor c ome here to draw."\n\nJesus said to her\, "Go\, call your husband\, and co me here." The woman answered him\, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her\ , "You are right in saying\, 'I have no husband'\; for you have had five h usbands\, and he whom you now have is not your husband\; this you said tru ly." The woman said to him\, "Sir\, I perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain\; and you say that Jerusalem is the pl ace where men ought to worship." Jesus said to her\, "Woman\, believe me\, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will yo u worship the Father. You worship what you do not know\; we worship what w e know\, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming\, and now is\, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth\ , for such the Father seeks to worship him. God is spirit\, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." The woman said to him\, "I know that the Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ)\; when he comes\ , he will show us all things." Jesus said to her\, "I who speak to you am he."\n\nJust then his disciples came. They marveled that he was talking wi th a woman\, but none said\, "What do you wish?" or\, "Why are you talking with her?" So the woman left her water jar\, and went away into the city and said to the people\, "Come\, see a man who told me all that I ever did . Can this be the Christ?" They went out of the city and were coming to hi m.\n\nMeanwhile the disciples besought him\, saying "Rabbi\, eat." But he said to them\, "I have food to eat of which you do not know." So the disci ples said to one another\, "Has anyone brought him food?" Jesus said to th em\, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me\, and to accomplish his work. Do you not say\, 'There are yet four months\, then comes the harves t'? I tell you\, lift up your eyes\, and see how the fields are already wh ite for harvest. He who reaps receives wages\, and gathers fruit for etern al life\, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. For here the sayi ng holds true\, 'One sows and another reaps.' I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor\; others have labored\, and you have entered into their labor."\n\nMany Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman's testimony. "He told me all that I ever did." So when the Sama ritans came to him\, they asked him to stay with them\; and he stayed ther e two days. And many more believed because of his word. They said to the w oman\, "It is no longer because of your words that we believe\, for we hav e heard ourselves\, and we know that this is indeed Christ the Savior of t he world."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260510 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260511 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133013 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133014 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Renewal of Constantinople DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 05/11/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Renewal of Constantinople\; Hieromartyr Mocius\; Methodius &\; Cyr il\, Equal-to-the Apostles Illuminators of the Slavs\; Theopemptos the Mar tyr &\; his Companions\; Dioscoros the New Martyr\; Argyrios the New-Ma rtyr of Epanomi\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 12:12-17 \nIn th ose days\, Peter went to the house of Mary\, the mother of John whose othe r name was Mark\, where many were gathered together and were praying. And when he knocked at the door of the gateway\, a maid named Rhoda came to an swer. Recognizing Peter's voice\, in her joy she did not open the gate but ran and told that Peter was standing at the gate. They said to her\, "You are mad." But she insisted that it was so. They said\, "It is his angel!" But Peter continued knocking\; and when they opened\, they saw him and we re amazed. But motioning to them with his hand to be silent\, he described to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said\, "Te ll this to James and to the brethren." Then he departed and went to anothe r place.\n\nGospel Reading: John 8:42-51 \nThe Lord said to the Jews who came to him\, "If God were your Father\, you would love me\, for I proceed ed and came forth from God\; I came not of my own accord\, but he sent me. Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to he ar my word. You are of your father the devil\, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning\, and has nothing to do with the truth\, because there is no truth in him. When he lies\, he speaks according to his own nature\, for he is a liar and the father of l ies. But\, because I tell the truth\, you do not believe me. Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth\, why do you not believe me? He wh o is of God hears the words of God\; the reason why you do not hear them i s that you are not of God."\n\nThe Jews answered him\, "Are we not right i n saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?" Jesus answered\, "I h ave not a demon\; but I honor my Father\, and you dishonor me. Yet I do no t seek my own glory\; there is One who seeks it and he will be the judge. Truly\, truly\, I say to you\, if any one keeps my word\, he will never se e death."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260511 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260512 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133014 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133015 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Epiphanius\, Bishop of Cyprus DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 05/12/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Epiphanius\, Bishop of Cyprus\; Germanos\, Patriarch of Constantinopl e\; Removal of the Sacred Relics of Saint Joachim "Papoulakis" of Vatopaid i\; Theodorus the Righteous of Cythera\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apo stles 12:25\; 13:1-12 \nIn those days\, Barnabas and Saul returned from J erusalem when they had fulfilled their mission\, bringing with them John w hose other name was Mark. Now in the Church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers\, Barnabas\, Simeon who was called Niger\, Lucius of Cyrene\ , Manaen a member of the court of Herod the tetrarch\, and Saul. While the y were worshipping the Lord and fasting\, the Holy Spirit said\, "Set apar t for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them." Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off . So\, being sent out by the Holy Spirit\, they went down to Seleucia\; an d from there they sailed to Cyprus. When they arrived at Salamis\, they pr oclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they had John to assist them. When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paph os\, they came upon a certain magician\, a Jewish false prophet\, named Ba r-Jesus. He was with the proconsul\, Sergius Paulus\, a man of intelligenc e\, who summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God. But Elymas the magician (for that is the meaning of his name) withstood them\ , seeking to turn away the proconsul from the faith. But Saul\, who is als o called Paul\, filled with the Holy Spirit\, looked intently at him and s aid\, "You son of the devil\, you enemy of all righteousness\, full of all deceit and villainy\, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord? And now\, behold\, the hand of the Lord is upon you\, and yo u shall be blind and unable to see the sun for a time." Immediately mist a nd darkness fell upon him and he went about seeking people to lead him by the hand. Then the proconsul believed\, when he saw what had occurred\, fo r he was astonished at the teaching of the Lord.\n\nGospel Reading: John 8 :51-59 \nThe Lord said to the Jews who came to him\, "Truly\, truly\, I s ay to you\, if any one keeps my word\, he will never see death." The Jews said to him\, "Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died\, as did th e prophets\; and you say\, 'If any one keeps my word\, he will never taste death.' Are you greater than our father Abraham\, who died? And the proph ets died! Who do you claim to be?" Jesus answered\, "If I glorify myself\, my glory is nothing\; it is my Father who glorifies me\, of whom you say that he is your God. But you have not known him\; I know him. If I said\, I do not know him\, I should be a liar like you\; but I do know him and I keep his word. Your father Abraham rejoiced that he was to see my day\; an d he saw it and was glad." The Jews then said to him\, "You are not yet fi fty years old\, and have you seen Abraham?" Jesus said to them\, "Truly\, truly\, I say to you\, before Abraham was\, I am." So they took up stones to throw at him\; but Jesus hid himself\, and went out of the temple.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260512 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260513 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133015 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133016 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 5th Wednesday after Pascha DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 05/13/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 5th Wednesday after Pascha\; The Holy Martyr Glyceria\; Sergios the C onfessor\; Alexandros the Martyr\; Pausikakos\, Bishop of Synnada\n\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 13:13- 24 \nIN THOSE DAYS\, Paul and his company set sail from Paphos\, and came to Perga in Pamphylia. And John left them and returned to Jerusalem\; but they passed on from Perga and came to Antioch of Pisidia. And on the sabb ath day they went into the synagogue and sat down. After the reading of th e law and the prophets\, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them\, saying \, "Brethren\, if you have any word of exhortation for the people\, say it ." So Paul stood up\, and motioning with his hand said: "Men of Israel\, a nd you that fear God\, listen. The God of this people Israel chose our fat hers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt\, an d with uplifted arm he led them out of it. And for about forty years he bo re with them in the wilderness. And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan\, he gave them their land as an inheritance\, for abou t four hundred and fifty years. And after that he gave them judges until S amuel the prophet. Then they asked for a king\; and God gave them Saul the son of Kish\, a man of the tribe of Benjamin\, for forty years. And when he had removed him\, he raised up David to be their king\; of whom he test ified and said\, 'I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my he art\, who will do all my will.' Of this man's posterity God has brought to Israel a Savior\, Jesus\, as he promised. Before his coming John had prea ched a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel."\n\nGospel Readi ng: John 6:5-14 \nAt that time\, Jesus\, lifting up his eyes and seeing t hat a multitude was coming to him\, said to Philip\, "How are we to buy br ead\, so that these people may eat?" This he said to test him\, for he him self knew what he would do. Philip answered him\, "Two hundred denarii wou ld not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little." One of his disc iples\, Andrew\, Simon Peter's brother\, said to him\, "There is a lad her e who has five barley loaves and two fish\; but what are they among so man y?" Jesus said\, "Make the people sit down." Now there was much grass in t he place\; so the men sat down\, in number about five thousand. Jesus then took the loaves\, and when he had given thanks\, he distributed them to t hose who were seated\; so also the fish\, as much as they wanted. And when they had eaten their fill\, he told his disciples\, "Gather up the fragme nts left over\, that nothing may be lost." So they gathered them up and fi lled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves\, left by t hose who had eaten. When the people saw the sign which he had done\, they said\, "This is indeed the prophet who is to come into the world!"\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260513 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260514 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133016 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133017 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: 5th Thursday after Pascha DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 05/14/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 5th Thursday after Pascha\; Isidore the Martyr of Chios\; Holy Hierom artyr Therapontus\; Holy New Martyrs Mark and John\; Leontius\, Patriarch of Jerusalem\; Serapion the Holy Martyr\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Ap ostles 14:20-28\; 15:1-4 \nIN THOSE DAYS\, Paul went on with Barnabas to Derbe. When they had preached the gospel to that city and had made many di sciples\, they returned to Lystra and to lconion and to Antioch\, strength ening the souls of the disciples\, exhorting them to continue in the faith \, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God. And when they had appointed elders for them in every church\, with pr ayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they believed. Th en they passed through Pisidia\, and came to Pamphylia. And when they had spoken the word in Perga\, they went down to Attalia\; and from there they sailed to Antioch\, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled. And when they arrived\, they gathered the church together and declared all that God had done with them\, and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles. And they remained no littl e time with the disciples. But some men came down from Judea and were teac hing the brethren\, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses\, you cannot be saved." And when Paul and Barnabas had no small dis sension and debate with them\, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others we re appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about th is question. So\, being sent on their way by the church\, they passed thro ugh both Phoenicia and Samaria\, reporting the conversion of the Gentiles\ , and they gave great joy to all the brethren. And when they came to Jerus alem\, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders\, and they declared all that God had done with them.\n\nGospel Reading: John 9:39-10:9 \nThe Lord said to the Jews who came to him\, "For judgment I came into this world\, that those who do not see may see\, and that those who see may become blind." Some of the Pharisees near him heard this\, and they said to him\, "Are we also blind?" Jesus said to them\, "If you were blind\, you would have no guilt\; but now that you say\, 'We see\,' your guilt remains.\n\n"Truly\, truly\, I say to you\, he who does not enter th e sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way\, that man is a thief and a robber\; but he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep . To him the gatekeeper opens\; the sheep hear his voice\, and he calls hi s own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his ow n\, he goes before them\, and the sheep follow him\, for they know his voi ce. A stranger they will not follow\, but they will flee from him\, for th ey do not know the voice of strangers." This figure Jesus used with them\, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.\n\nSo Jesus again said to them\, "Truly\, truly\, I say to you\, I am the door of the sheep . All who came before me are thieves and robbers\; but the sheep did not h eed them. I am the door\; if any one enters by me\, he will be saved\, and will go in and out and find pasture."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260514 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260515 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133017 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133019 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 Pachomius the Great DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 05/15/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Pachomius the Great\; Achillius the Wonderworker\, Archbishop of Lari ssa\; Placing of the Honorable Head of the Apostle Titus\; Barbaros the My rrhbearer of Kerkyra\; Andrew the Hermit &\; Wonderworker\n\nFast Day ( Wine and Oil Allowed)\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 15:5-12 \n IN THOSE DAYS\, some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up\, and said\, "it is necessary to circumcise them\, and to charge t hem to keep the law of Moses." The apostles and the elders were gathered t ogether to consider this matter. And after there had been much debate\, Pe ter rose and said to them\, "Brethren\, you know that in the early days Go d made choice among you\, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the wo rd of the gospel and believe. And God who knows the heart bore witness to them\, giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us\; and he made no d istinction between us and them\, but cleansed their hearts by faith. Now t herefore why do you make trial of God by putting a yoke upon the neck of t he disciples which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? But we believe that we shall be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus\, ju st as they will." And all the assembly kept silence\; and they listened to Barnabas and Paul as they related what signs and wonders God had done thr ough them among the Gentiles.\n\nGospel Reading: John 10:17-28 \nThe Lord said to the Jews who came to him\, "For this reason the Father loves me\, because I lay down my life\, that I may take it again. No one takes it fr om me\, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have power to lay it down\, and I have power to take it again\; this charge I have received from my Fa ther."\n\nThere was again a division among the Jews because of these words . Many of them said\, "He has a demon\, and he is mad\; why listen to him? " Others said\, "These are not the sayings of one who has a demon. Can a d emon open the eyes of the blind?"\n\nIt was the feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem\; it was winter\, and Jesus was walking in the temple\, in the portico of Solomon. So the Jews gathered round him and said to him\, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ\, tell us plainly ." Jesus answered them\, "I told you\, and you do not believe. The works t hat I do in my Father's name\, they bear witness to me\; but you do not be lieve\, because you do not belong to my sheep. My sheep hear my voice\, an d I know them\, and they follow me\; and I give them eternal life."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260515 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260516 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133019 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133020 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Theodore the Sanctified DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 05/16/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Theodore the Sanctified\; Holy Martyr Peter of Blachernae\; Nicholas the Mystic\, Patriarch of Constantinople\; New Martyr Nicholas of Metsovos (1617)\; Alexandros\, Archbishop of Jerusalem\; Brendan the Navigator\n\n Epistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 15:35-41 \nIN THOSE DAYS\, Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch\, teaching and preaching the word of the Lor d\, with many others also. And after some days Paul said to Barnabas\, "Co me\, let us return and visit the brethren in every city where we proclaime d the word of the Lord\, and see how they are." And Barnabas wanted to tak e with them John called Mark. But Paul thought best not to take with them one who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia\, and had not gone with them to the work. And there arose a sharp contention\, so that they separated f rom each other\; Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus\, b ut Paul chose Silas and departed\, being commended by the brethren to the grace of the Lord. And he went through Syria and Cilicia\, strengthening t he churches.\n\nGospel Reading: John 10:27-38 \nThe Lord said to the Jews who came to him\, "My sheep hear my voice\, and I know them\, and they fo llow me\; and I give them eternal life\, and they shall never perish\, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand. My Father\, who has given them t o me\, is greater than all\, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. I and the Father are one."\n\nThe Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them\, "I have shown you many good works fro m the Father\; for which of these do you stone me?" The Jews answered him\ , "It is not for a good work that we stone you but for blasphemy\; because you\, being a man\, make yourself God." Jesus answered them\, "Is it not written in your law\, 'I said\, you are gods?' If he called them gods to w hom the word of God came (and scripture cannot be broken)\, do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world\, 'You are blasphe ming\,' because I said\, 'I am the Son of God'? If I am not doing the work s of my Father\, then do not believe me\; but if I do them\, even though y ou do not believe me\, believe my works\, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260516 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260517 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133020 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133023 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Sunday of the Blind Man DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 05/17/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Sunday of the Blind Man\; The Holy Apostles Andronicus and Junia\; Th eophanes and Nectarios\, Builders of the Holy Monastery of Varlaam of Mete ora\; Nicholas the Younger who was martyred in Metsovo\, Epirus\; Theodoto s the Martyr of Ancyra &\; the 7 Virgin-martyrs\; Athanasios\, Archbish op of Christianopolis\; The New Martyrs of Batak\, Bulgaria\n\nMatins Gosp el Reading: John 20:11-18 \nAt that time\, Mary stood weeping outside the tomb\, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb\, and she saw tw o angels in white\, sitting where the body of Jesus has lain\, one at the head and one at the feet. They said to her\, "Woman\, why are you weeping? " She said to them\, "Because they have taken away my Lord\, and I do not know where they have laid Him." Saying this\, she turned round and saw Jes us standing\, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her\, "Woman\, why are you weeping? Whom do you seek?" Supposing Him to be the g ardener\, she said to Him\, "Sir\, if you have carried Him away\, tell me where you have laid Him\, and I will take Him away." Jesus said to her\, " Mary." She turned and said to Him in Hebrew\, "Rabboni\," which means Teac her. Jesus said to her\, "Do not touch Me\, for I have not yet ascended to the Father\; but go to My brethren and say to them\, I am ascending to My Father and your Father\, to My God and your God." Mary Magdalene went and said to the disciples\, "I have seen the Lord\," and she told them that H e had said these things to her.\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 1 6:16-34 \nIN THOSE DAYS\, as we apostles were going to the place of praye r\, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by soothsaying. She followed Paul and us\, crying\, "These men are servants of the Most High God\, who proclaim to you the way of salvation." And this she did for many days. But Paul was annoyed\, and turned and said to the spirit\, "I charge you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her." And it came out that very hour. But when her owners saw that their hope of gain was gone\, they seized Paul and Silas and drag ged them into the market place before the rulers\; and when they had broug ht them to the magistrates they said\, "These men are Jews and they are di sturbing our city. They advocate customs which it is not lawful for us Rom ans to accept or practice." The crowd joined in attacking them\; and the m agistrates tore the garments off them and gave orders to beat them with ro ds. And when they had inflicted many blows upon them\, they threw them int o prison\, charging the jailer to keep them safely. Having received this c harge\, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the s tocks. But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God\, and the prisoners were listening to them\, and suddenly there was a great earthquake\, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken\; an d immediately all the doors were opened and every one's fetters were unfas tened. When the jailer woke and saw that the prison doors were open\, he d rew his sword and was about to kill himself\, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. But Paul cried with a loud voice\, "Do not harm yourself\, f or we are all here." And he called for lights and rushed in\, and tremblin g with fear he fell down before Paul and Silas\, and brought them out and said\, "Men\, what must I do to be saved?" And they said\, "Believe in the Lord Jesus\, and you will be saved\, you and your household." And they sp oke the word of the Lord to him and to all that were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night\, and washed their wounds\, and he wa s baptized at once\, with all his family. Then he brought them up into his house\, and set food before them\; and he rejoiced with all his household that he had believed in God.\n\nGospel Reading: John 9:1-38 \nAt that ti me\, as Jesus passed by\, he saw a man blind from his birth. And his disci ples asked him\, "Rabbi\, who sinned\, this man or his parents\, that he w as born blind?" Jesus answered\, "It was not that this man sinned\, or his parents\, but that the works of God might be made manifest in him. We mus t work the works of him who sent me\, while it is day\; night comes\, when no one can work. As long as I am in the world\, I am the light of the wor ld." As he said this\, he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle and anointed the man's eyes with the clay\, saying to him\, "Go\, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came bac k seeing. The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar\, sa id\, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?" Some said\, "It is he" \; others said\, "No\, but he is like him." He said\, "I am the man." They said to him\, "Then how were your eyes opened?" He answered\, "The man ca lled Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and said to me\, 'Go to Siloam a nd wash'\; so I went and washed and received my sight." They said to him\, "Where is he?" He said\, "I do not know."\n\nThey brought to the Pharisee s the man who had formerly been blind. Now it was a sabbath day when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes. The Pharisees again asked him how he h ad received his sight. And he said to them\, "He put clay on my eyes and I washed\, and I see." Some of the Pharisees said\, "This man is not from G od\, for he does not keep the sabbath." But others said\, "How can a man w ho is a sinner do such signs?" There was a division among them. So they ag ain said to the blind man\, "What do you say about him\, since he has open ed your eyes?" He said\, "He is a prophet."\n\nThe Jews did not believe th at he had been blind and had received his sight\, until they called the pa rents of the man who had received his sight\, and asked them\, "Is this yo ur son\, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?" His parent s answered\, "We know that this is our son\, and that he was born blind\; but how he now sees we do not know\, nor do we know who opened his eyes. A sk him\; he is of age\, he will speak for himself." His parents said this because they feared the Jews\, for the Jews had already agreed that if any one should confess him to be Christ he was to be put out of the synagogue. Therefore his parents said\, "He is of age\, ask him."\n\nSo for the seco nd time they called the man who had been blind\, and said to him\, "Give G od the praise\; we know that this man is a sinner." He answered\, "Whether he is a sinner\, I do not know\; one thing I know\, that though I was bli nd\, now I see." They said to him\, "What did he do to you? How did he ope n your eyes?" He answered them\, "I have told you already and you would no t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you too want to become his disciples?" And they reviled him\, saying\, "You are his disciple\, but we are disciples of Moses. We know that God has spoken to Moses\, but as for this man\, we do not know where he comes from." The man answered\, "Why\, this is a marvel! You do not know where he comes from\, and yet he opened my eyes. We know that God does not listen to sinners\, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will\, God listens to him. Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born bl ind. If this man were not from God\, he could do nothing." They answered h im\, "You were born in utter sin\, and would you teach us?" And they cast him out.\n\nJesus heard that they had cast him out\, and having found him he said\, "Do you believe in the Son of man?" He answered\, "And who is he \, sir\, that I may believe in him?" Jesus said to him\, "You have seen hi m\, and it is he who speaks to you." He said\, "Lord\, I believe"\; and he worshiped him.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260517 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260518 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133024 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: 6th Monday after Pascha DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 05/18/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 6th Monday after Pascha\; Holy Martyrs: Peter\, Dionysius\, Andrew\, Paul\, Christina\, Heraclius\, Paulinus and Benedimus\; Stephen I\, Patria rch of Constantinople\; Julian the Martyr\; Euphrasia the Martyr of Nicea\ n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 17:1-9 \nIN THOSE DAYS\, when th e apostles had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia\, they came to Thes salonica\, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. And Paul went in\, as was his custom\, and for three weeks he argued with them from the scriptur es\, explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead\, and saying\, "This Jesus\, whom I proclaim to you\, is the Christ." And some of them were persuaded\, and joined Paul a nd Silas\; as did a great many of the devout Greeks and not a few of the l eading women. But the Jews were jealous\, and taking some wicked fellows o f the rabble\, they gathered a crowd\, set the city in an uproar\, and att acked the house of Jason\, seeking to bring them out to the people. And wh en they could not find them\, they dragged Jason and some of the brethren before the city authorities\, crying\, "These men who have turned the worl d upside down have come here also\, and Jason has received them\; and they are all acting against the decrees of Caesar\, saying that there is anoth er king\, Jesus." And the people and the city authorities were disturbed w hen they heard this. And when they had taken security from Jason and the r est\, they let them go.\n\nGospel Reading: John 11:47-54 \nAt that time\, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council\, and said\, "Wh at are we to do? For this man performs many signs. If we let him go on thu s\, every one will believe in him\, and the Romans will come and destroy b oth our place and our nation." But one of them\, Caiaphas\, who was high p riest that year\, said to them\, "You know nothing at all\; you do not und erstand that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the peopl e\, and that the whole nation should not perish." He did not say this of h is own accord\, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus s hould die for the nation\, and not for the nation only\, but to gather int o one the children of God who are scattered abroad. So from that day on th ey took counsel how to put him to death.\n\nJesus therefore no longer went about openly among the Jews\, but went from there to the country near the wilderness\, to a town called Ephraim\; and there he stayed with the disc iples.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260518 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260519 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133024 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1932019616 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Men's Ministry Gettysburg Trip (Dn. Noah Papas) DESCRIPTION:Who: Dn. Noah Papas\n\n LOCATION:Gettysburg X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Men's Ministry CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260518 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260519 CREATED:20250812T200341Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1932019616 X-TEAMUP-WHO:Dn. Noah Papas X-TEAMUP-WHERE:Gettysburg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133026 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Patrick the Hieromartyr and Bishop of Prusa and His Fellow Martyr s Acacius\, Menander\, and Polyaenus DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 05/19/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Patrick the Hieromartyr and Bishop of Prusa and His Fellow Martyrs Ac acius\, Menander\, and Polyaenus\; Our Righteous Father Memnonus the Wonde rworker\; Theotima &\; Kyriake the Martyrs\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 17:19-28 \nIN THOSE DAYS\, the Athenians took hold of Paul a nd brought him to the Areopagos\, saying\, "May we know what this new teac hing is which you present? For you bring some strange things to our ears\; we wish to know therefore what these things mean." Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time in nothing except tell ing or hearing something new. So Paul\, standing in the middle of the Areo pagos\, said: "Men of Athens\, I perceive that in every way you are very r eligious. For as I passed along\, and observed the objects of your worship \, I found also an altar with this inscription\, 'To an unknown god.' What therefore you worship as unknown\, this I proclaim to you. The God who ma de the world and everything in it\, being Lord of heaven and earth\, does not live in shrines made by man\, nor is he served by human hands\, as tho ugh he needed anything\, since he himself gives to all men life and breath and everything. And he made from one every nation of men to live on all t he face of the earth\, having determined allotted periods and the boundari es of their habitation\, that they should seek God\, in the hope that they might feel after him and find him. Yet he is not far from each one of us\ , for 'In him we live and move and have our being.'\n\nGospel Reading: Joh n 12:19-36 \nAt that time\, the Pharisees took counsel against Jesus and said to one another\, "You see that you can do nothing\; look\, the world has gone after him."\n\nNow among those who went up to worship at the feas t were some Greeks. So these came to Philip\, who was from Bethsaida in Ga lilee\, and said to him\, "Sir\, we wish to see Jesus." Philip went and to ld Andrew\; Andrew went with Philip and they told Jesus. And Jesus answere d them\, "The hour has come for the Son of man to be glorified. Truly\, tr uly\, I say to you\, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies \, it remains alone\; but if it dies\, it bears much fruit. He who loves h is life loses it\, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it fo r eternal life. If any one serves me\, he must follow me\; and where I am\ , there shall my servant be also\; if any one serves me\, the Father will honor him.\n\n"Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? 'Father\, sa ve me from this hour?' No\, for this purpose I have come to this hour. Fat her\, glorify your name." Then a voice came from heaven\, "I have glorifie d it\, and I will glorify it again." The crowd standing by heard it and sa id that it had thundered. Others said\, "An angel has spoken to him." Jesu s answered\, "This voice has come for your sake\, not for mine. Now is the judgment of this world\, now shall the ruler of this world be cast out\; and I\, when I am lifted up from the earth\, will draw all men to myself." He said this to show by what death he was to die. The crowd answered him\ , "We have heard from the law that the Christ remains for ever. How can yo u say that the Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?" Jesu s said to them\, "The light is with you for a little longer. Walk while yo u have the light\, lest the darkness overtake you\; he who walks in the da rkness does not know where he goes. While you have the light\, believe in the light\, that you may become sons of light."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260519 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260520 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133027 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🐟 Apodosis of Pascha DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 05/20/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Apodosis of Pascha\; The Holy Martyr Thalleleus\; Lydia of Philippi\, Equal to the Apostles\; Mark the Hermit\; Father Alexis\, Metropolitan of Moscow\; John\, Joseph\, and Nikitas the Monks of Chios\n\nFast Day (Fish Allowed)\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 18:22-28 \nIN THOSE DA YS\, when Paul had landed at Caesarea\, he went up and greeted the church\ , and then went down to Antioch. After spending some time there he departe d and went from place to place through the region of Galatia and Phrygia\, strengthening all the disciples. Now a Jew named Apollos\, a native of Al exandria\, came to Ephesos. He was an eloquent man\, well versed in the sc riptures. He had been instructed in the way of the Lord\; and being ferven t in the spirit\, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jes us\, though he knew only the baptism of John. He began to speak boldly in the synagogue\; but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him\, they took him an d expounded to him the way of God more accurately. And when he wished to c ross to Achaia\, the brethren encouraged him\, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he arrived\, he greatly helped those who through grac e had believed\, for he powerfully confuted the Jews in public\, showing b y the scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.\n\nGospel Reading: John 12:36- 47 \nThe Lord said to the Jews who came to him\, "While you have the ligh t\, believe in the light\, that you may become sons of light. When Jesus h ad said this\, he departed and hid himself from them. Though he had done s o many signs before them\, yet they did not believe in him\; it was that t he word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: "Lord\, who has b elieved our report\, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?" T herefore they could not believe. For Isaiah again said\, "He has blinded t heir eyes and hardened their heart\, lest they should see with their eyes and perceive with their heart\, and turn for me to heal them." Isaiah said this because he saw his glory and spoke of him. Nevertheless\, many even of the authorities believed in him\, but for fear of the Pharisees they di d not confess it\, lest they should be put out of the synagogue: for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.\n\nAnd Jesus cried ou t and said\, "He who believes in me\, believes not in me but in him who se nt me. And he who sees me sees him who sent me. I have come as light into the world\, that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness. If any one hears my sayings and does not keep them\, I do not judge him\; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260520 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260521 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133027 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2097783353 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Feast of Ascension Orthros followed by Liturgy (Around 10:30-10:45a m) CATEGORIES:Services CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260521T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260521T113000 CREATED:20260516T220816Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2097783353 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133028 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Holy Ascension DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 05/21/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Holy Ascension\; Constantine and Helen\, Equal-to-the Apostles\; Pach omios the Righteous New Martyr\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: Mark 16:9-20 \nW hen Jesus rose early on the first day of the week\, He appeared first to M ary Magdalene\, from whom He had cast out seven demons. She went and told those who had been with Him\, as they mourned and wept. But when they hear d that He was alive and had been seen by her\, they would not believe it.\ n\nAfter this he appeared in another form to two of them\, as they were wa lking into the country. And they went back and told the rest\, but they di d not believe them. After this He appeared to the eleven themselves as the y sat at table and He upbraided them for their unbelief and hardness of he art\, because they had not believed those who saw Him after He had risen. And He said to them\, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation. He who believes and is baptized will be saved\; but he who does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: in My name they will cast out demons\; they will speak in new tongues\; they will pick up serpents\, and if they drink any deadly thing \, it will not hurt them\; they will lay their hands on the sick\, and the y will recover."\n\nSo then the Lord Jesus\, after He had spoken to them\, was taken up into heaven\, and sat down at the right hand of God. And the y went forth and preached everywhere\, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that attended it. Amen.\n\nEpistle Rea ding: Acts of the Apostles 26:1\, 12-20 \nIN THOSE DAYS\, King Agrippa sa id to Paul\, "You have permission to speak for yourself." Then Paul stretc hed out his hand and made his defense: "I journeyed to Damascus with the a uthority and commission of the chief priests. At midday\, O king\, I saw o n the way a light from heaven\, brighter than the sun\, shining round me a nd those who journeyed with me. And when we had all fallen to the ground\, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language\, 'Saul\, Saul\, why do you persecute me? It hurts you to kick against the goads.' And I said\, 'Who are you\, Lord?' And the Lord said\, 'I am Jesus whom you are persec uting. But rise and stand upon your feet\; for I have appeared to you for this purpose\, to appoint you to serve and bear witness to the things in w hich you have seen me and to those in which I will appear to you\, deliver ing you from the people and from the Gentiles-to whom I send you to open t heir eyes\, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power o f Satan to God\, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place amo ng those who are sanctified by faith in me.' "Wherefore\, O King Agrippa\, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision\, but declared first to thos e at Damascus\, then at Jerusalem and throughout all the country of Judea\ , and also to the Gentiles\, that they should repent and turn to God and p erform deeds worthy of their repentance."\n\nGospel Reading: Luke 24:36-53 \nAt that time\, having risen from the dead\, Jesus went up and stood am ong His disciples and said to them\, "Peace be with you." But they were st artled and frightened\, and supposed that they saw a spirit. And He said t o them\, "Why are you troubled\, and why do questionings rise in your hear ts? See My hands and My feet\, that it is I Myself\; handle Me\, and see\; for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see that I have." And when He had said this\, He showed them His hands and His feet. And while they sti ll disbelieved for joy\, and wondered\, He said to them\, "Have you anythi ng here to eat?" They gave Him a piece of broiled fish \\[and some honeyco mb\\]\, and He took it and ate before them. Then He said to them\, "These are My words which I spoke to you\, while I was still with you\, that ever ything written about Me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalm s must be fulfilled." Then He opened their minds to understand the scriptu res\, and said to them\, "Thus it is written\, that the Christ should suff er and on the third day rise from the dead\, and that repentance and forgi veness of sins should be preached in His name in all nations\, beginning f rom Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. And behold\, I send the promise of My Father upon you\; but stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high." Then He led them out as far as Bethany\, and li fting up His hands\, He blessed them. While He blessed them\, He parted fr om them\, and was carried up into heaven. And they worshiped Him\, and ret urned to Jerusalem with great joy\, and were continually in the Temple ble ssing God.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260521 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260522 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133028 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133030 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 Basiliscus the Martyr\, Bishop of Comana DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 05/22/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Basiliscus the Martyr\, Bishop of Comana\; Holy New Martyrs Demetrius and Paul of Tripoli\; John-Vladimir\, Ruler of Serbia\n\nFast Day (Wine a nd Oil Allowed)\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 19:1-8 \nIn thos e days\, while Apollos was at Corinth\, Paul passed through the upper coun try and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples. And he said to the m\, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" And they said\, " No\, we have never even heard that there is a Holy Spirit." And he said\, "Into what then were you baptized?" They said\, "Into John's baptism." And Paul said\, "John baptized with the baptism of repentance\, telling the p eople to believe in the one who was to come after him\, that is\, Jesus." On hearing this\, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And wh en Paul had laid his hands upon them\, the Holy Spirit came on them\; and they spoke with tongues and prophesied. There were about twelve of them in all. And he entered the synagogue and for three months spoke boldly\, arg uing and pleading about the kingdom of God.\n\nGospel Reading: John 14:1-1 1 \nThe Lord said to his disciples\, "Let not your hearts be troubled\; b elieve in God\, believe also in me. In my Father's house there are many ro oms\; if it were not so\, would I have told you that I go to prepare a pla ce for you? And when I go and prepare a place for you\, I will come again and will take you to myself\, that where I am you may be also. And you kno w the way where I am going." Thomas said to him\, "Lord\, we do not know w here you are going\; how can we know the way?" Jesus said to him\, "I am t he way\, and the truth\, and the life\; no one comes to the Father\, but b y me. If you had known me\, you would have known my Father also\; hencefor th you know him and have seen him."\n\nPhilip said to him\, "Lord\, show u s the Father\, and we shall be satisfied." Jesus said to him\, "Have I bee n with you so long\, and yet you do not know me\, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father\; how can you say\, 'Show us the Father?' Do you no t believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I s ay to you I do not speak on my own authority\; but the Father who dwells i n me does his works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260522 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260523 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133030 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133031 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Michael the Confessor\, Bishop of Synnada DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 05/23/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Michael the Confessor\, Bishop of Synnada\; Mary the Myrrhbearer & \; wife of Cleopas\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 20:7-12 \nIN THOSE DAYS\, when the apostles were gathered together to break bread\, Pau l talked with them\, intending to depart on the morrow\; and he prolonged his speech until midnight. There were many lights in the upper chamber whe re we were gathered. And a young man named Euthychos was sitting in the wi ndow. He sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer\; and being ov ercome by sleep\, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead. But Paul went down and bent over him\, and embracing him said\, "Do not b e alarmed\, for his life is in him." And when Paul had gone up and had bro ken bread and eaten\, he conversed with them a long while\, until daybreak \, and so departed. And they took the lad away alive\, and were not a litt le comforted.\n\nGospel Reading: John 14:10-21 \nThe Lord said to his dis ciples\, "The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority\; but the Father who dwells in me does his works. Believe me that I am in t he Father and the Father in me\; or else believe me for the sake of the wo rks themselves.\n\n"Truly\, truly\, I say to you\, he who believes in me w ill also do the works that I do\; and greater works than these will he do\ , because I go to the Father. Whatever you ask in my name\, I will do it\, that the Father may be glorified in the Son\; if you ask anything in my n ame\, I will do it. "If you love me\, you will keep my commandments. And I will pray to the Father\, and he will give you another Counselor\, to be with you for ever\, even the Spirit of truth\, whom the world cannot recei ve\, because it neither sees him nor knows him\; you know him\, for he dwe lls with you\, and will be in you.\n\n"I will not leave you desolate\; I w ill come to you. Yet a little while\, and the world will see me no more\, but you will see me\; because I live\, you will live also. In that day you will know that I am in my Father\, and you in me\, and I in you. He who h as my commandments and keeps them\, he it is who loves me\; and he who lov es me will be loved by my Father\, and I will love him and manifest myself to him."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260523 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260524 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133031 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133032 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Fathers of the 1st Council DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 05/24/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Fathers of the 1st Council\; Symeon the Stylite of the Mountain\; Sai nt Vincent of Lerins\; Meletios the Commander &\; his Companion Martyrs \; Gregory\, Archbishop of Novgorod\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: John 21:1-14 \nAt that time\, Jesus revealed Himself again to the disciples by the Se a of Tiberias\; and He revealed Himself in this way. Simon Peter\, Thomas\ , called the Twin\, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee\, the sons of Zebedee\, a nd two others of His disciples were together. Simon Peter said to them\, " I am going fishing." They said to him\, "We will go with you." They went o ut and got into the boat\, but that night they caught nothing. Just as day was breaking\, Jesus stood on the beach\, yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to them\, "Children\, have you any fish?" Th ey answered him\, "No." He said to them\, "Cast the net on the right side of the boat\, and you will find some." So they cast it\, and now they were not able to haul it in\, for the quantity of fish. That disciple whom Jes us loved said to Peter\, "It is the Lord!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord\, he put on his clothes\, for he was stripped for work\, and sprang into the sea. But the other disciples came in the boat\, dragging t he net full of fish\, for they were not far from the land\, but about a hu ndred yards off. When they got out on land\, they saw a charcoal fire ther e with fish lying on it\, and bread. Jesus said to them\, "Bring some of t he fish that you have just caught." So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore\, full of large fish\, a hundred and fifty-three of them\; and although there were so many\, the net was not torn. Jesus said to them \, "Come and have breakfast." Now none of the disciples dared ask Him\, "W ho are you?" They knew it was the Lord. Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them\, and so with the fish. This was now the third time that J esus was revealed to the disciples after He was raised from the dead..\n\n Epistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 20:16-18\, 28-36 \nIN THOSE DAYS\, Paul had decided to sail past Ephesos\, so that he might not have to spend time in Asia\; for he was hastening to be at Jerusalem\, if possible\, on the day of Pentecost. And from Miletos he sent to Ephesos and called to h im the elders of the church. And when they came to him\, he said to them: "Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock\, in which the Holy Spirit h as made you overseers\, to care for the church of God which he obtained wi th the blood of his own Son. I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you\, not sparing the flock\; and from among your own s elves will arise men speaking perverse things\, to draw away the disciples after them. Therefore be alert\, remembering that for three years I did n ot cease night or day to admonish every one with tears. And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace\, which is able to build you up an d to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified. I covete d no one's silver or gold or apparel. You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities\, and to those who were with me. In all thin gs I have shown you that by so toiling one must help the weak\, rememberin g the words of the Lord Jesus\, how he said\, 'it is more blessed to give than to receive.' " And when he had spoken thus\, he knelt down and prayed with them all.\n\nGospel Reading: John 17:1-13 \nAt that time\, Jesus li fted up his eyes to heaven and said\, "Father\, the hour has come\; glorif y your Son that the Son may glorify you\, since you have given him power o ver all flesh\, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And t his is eternal life\, that they know you the only true God\, and Jesus Chr ist whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth\, having accomplished the work which you gave me to do\; and now\, Father\, you glorify me in your own presence with the glory which I had with you before the world was made .\n\n"I have manifested your name to the men whom you gave me out of the w orld\; yours they were\, and you gave them to me\, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you\; for I have given them the words which you gave me\, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you\; and they have believed that you did send me. I am praying for them\; I am not praying for the world b ut for those whom you have given me\, for they are mine\; all mine are you rs\, and yours are mine\, and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world\, but they are in the world\, and I am coming to you. Holy F ather\, keep them in your name\, which you have given me\, that they may b e one\, even as we are one. While I was with them\, I kept them in your na me\, which you have given me\; I have guarded them\, and none of them is l ost but the son of perdition\, that the scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you\; and these things I speak in the world\, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260524 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260525 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133032 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133033 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Third Finding of the Precious Head of St. John the Baptist DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 05/25/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Third Finding of the Precious Head of St. John the Baptist\; Therapon the Hieromartyr\, Bishop of Cyprus\; Finding of the Icon of St. Demetrios the Great-Martyr and Myrrh-Streamer on Syros\; Aldhelm\, Bishop of Sherbo rne\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: Luke 7:17-30 \nAt that time\, the report co ncerning Jesus spread through the whole of Judea and all the surrounding c ountry. The disciples of John told him of all these things. And John\, cal ling to him two of his disciples\, sent them to the Lord\, saying\, "Are y ou he who is to come\, or shall we look for another?" And when the men had come to him\, they said\, "John the Baptist has sent us to you\, saying\, 'Are you he who is to come\, or shall we look for another?'" In that hour he cured many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits\, and on many that were blind he bestowed sight. And he answered them\, "Go and tell John wh at you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight\, the lame walk\ , lepers are cleansed\, and the deaf hear\, the dead are raised up\, the p oor have good news preached to them. And blessed is he who takes no offens e at me."\n\nWhen the messengers of John had gone\, he began to speak to t he crowds concerning John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to beh old? A reed shaken by the wind? What then did you go out to see? A man clo thed in soft clothing? Behold\, those who are gorgeously appareled and liv e in luxury are in kings' courts. What then did you go out to see? A proph et? Yes\, I tell you\, and more than a prophet. This is he of whom it is w ritten\, 'Behold\, I send my messenger before your face\, who shall prepar e your way before you.' I tell you\, among those born of women none is gre ater than John\; yet he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he." When they heard this all the people and the tax collectors justified God\, having been baptized with the baptism of John\; but the Pharisees a nd the lawyers rejected the purpose of God for themselves\, not having bee n baptized by him.\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Second Letter to the Cor inthians 4:6-15 \nBrethren\, it is the God who said\, "Let light shine ou t of darkness\," who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the know ledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.\n\nBut we have this treas ure in earthen vessels\, to show that the transcendent power belongs to Go d and not to us. We are afflicted in every way\, but not crushed\; perplex ed\, but not driven to despair\; persecuted\, but not forsaken\; struck do wn\, but not destroyed\; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus\, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For while we live we are always being given up to death for Jesus' sake\, so that th e life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So death is at work in us\, but life in you.\n\nSince we have the same spirit of faith as he had who wrote\, "I believed\, and so I spoke\," we too believe\, and so we speak\, knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence. For it is all for your sak e\, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thank sgiving\, to the glory of God.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 11:2-15 \nAt th at time\, when John heard in prison about the deeds of the Christ\, he sen t word by his disciples and said to him\, "Are you he who is to come\, or shall we look for another?" And Jesus answered them\, "Go and tell John wh at you hear and see: the blind receive their sight and the lame walk\, lep ers are cleansed and the deaf hear\, and the dead are raised up\, and the poor have good news preached to them. And blessed is he who takes no offen se at me." As they went away\, Jesus began to speak to the crowds concerni ng John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to behold? A reed shaken by the wind? What then did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft raime nt? Behold\, those who wear soft raiment are in kings' houses. What then d id you go out to see? A prophet? Yes\, I tell you\, and more than a prophe t. This is he of whom it is written\, 'Behold\, I send my messenger before your face\, who shall prepare your way before you.' Truly\, I say to you\ , among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the B aptist\; yet he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has been coming violently and men of violence take it by force. For all the prophe ts and the law prophesied until John\; and if you are willing to accept it \, he is Elijah who is to come. He who has ears to hear\, let him hear."\n \n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260525 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260526 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133033 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133035 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Carpos and Alphaeus\, Apostles of the 70 DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 05/26/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Carpos and Alphaeus\, Apostles of the 70\; Alexandros the New Martyr of Thessaloniki\; George the New of Sofia\; Augustine\, Archbishop of Cant erbury\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 21:26-32 \nIN THOSE DAYS\ , Paul took the men\, and the next day he purified himself with them and w ent into the temple\, to give notice when the days of purification would b e fulfilled and the offering presented for every one of them. When the sev en days were almost completed\, the Jews from Asia\, who had seen him in t he temple\, stirred up all the crowd\, and laid hands on him\, crying out\ , "Men of Israel\, help! This is the man who is teaching men everywhere ag ainst the people and the law and this place\; moreover he also brought Gre eks into the temple\, and he has defiled this holy place." For they had pr eviously seen Trophimos the Ephesian with him in the city\, and they suppo sed that Paul had brought him into the temple. Then all the city was arous ed\, and the people ran together\; they seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple\, and at once the gates were shut. And as they were trying to kill him\, word came to the tribune of the cohort that all Jerusalem was i n confusion. He at once took soldiers and centurions\, and ran down to the m\; and when they saw the tribune and the soldiers\, they stopped beating Paul.\n\nGospel Reading: John 16:2-13 \nThe Lord said to his disciples\, "The hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering servi ce to God. And they will do this because they have not known the Father\, nor me. But I have said these things to you\, that when their hour comes y ou may remember that I told you of them.\n\n"I did not say these things to you from the beginning\, because I was with you. But now I am going to hi m who sent me\; yet none of you asks me\, 'Where are you going?' But becau se I have said these things to you\, sorrow has filled your hearts. Nevert heless I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away\, for if I do not go away\, the Counselor will not come to you\; but if I go\, I will send him to you. And when he comes\, he will convince the world conc erning sin and righteousness and judgment: concerning sin\, because they d o not believe in me\; concerning righteousness\, because I go to the Fathe r\, and you will see me no more\; concerning judgment\, because the ruler of this world is judged.\n\n"I have yet many things to say to you\, but yo u cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes\, he will guide you into all the truth."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260526 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260527 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133035 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133036 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 The Holy Hieromartyr Helladius DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 05/27/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: The Holy Hieromartyr Helladius\; John the Russian of Evia\; Theodora the Virgin-martyr &\; Didymos the Martyr\; Venerable Bede\n\nFast Day ( Wine and Oil Allowed)\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 23:1-11 \n IN THOSE DAYS\, Paul\, looking intently at the council\, said\, "Brethren\ , I have lived before God in all good conscience up to this day." And the high priest Ananias commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth. Then Paul said to him\, "God shall strike you\, you whitewashed wal l! Are you sitting to judge me according to the law\, and yet contrary to the law you order me to be struck?" Those who stood by said\, "Would you r evile God's high priest?" And Paul said\, "I did not know\, brethren\, tha t he was the high priest\; for it is written\, 'You shall not speak evil o f a ruler of your people.' " But when Paul perceived that one part were Sa dducees and the other Pharisees\, he cried out in the council\, "Brethren\ , I am a Pharisee\, a son of Pharisees\; with respect to the hope and the resurrection of the dead I am on trial." And when he had said this\, a dis sension arose between the Pharisees and the Sadducees\; and the assembly w as divided. For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection\, nor ange l\, nor spirit\; but the Pharisees acknowledge them all. Then a great clam or arose\; and some of the scribes of the Pharisees' party stood up and co ntended\, "We find nothing wrong in this man. What if a spirit or an angel spoke to him?" And when the dissension became violent\, the tribune\, afr aid that Paul would be torn in pieces by them\, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them and bring him into the barra cks. The following night the Lord stood by him and said\, "Take courage\, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem\, so you must bear witness also at Rome."\n\nGospel Reading: John 16:15-23 \nThe Lord said to his d isciples\, "All that the Father has is mine\; therefore I said that he wil l take what is mine and declare it to you.\n\n"A little while\, and you wi ll see me no more\; again a little while\, and you will see me." Some of h is disciples said to one another\, "What is this that he says to us\, 'A l ittle while\, and you will not see me\, and again a little while\, and you will see me'\; and\, 'because I go to the Father'? " They said\, "What do es he mean by 'a little while'? We do not know what he means." Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him\; so he said to them\, "Is this what you are a sking yourselves\, what I meant by saying\, 'A little while\, and you will not see me\, and again a little while\, and you will see me'? Truly\, tru ly\, I say to you\, you will weep and lament\, but the world will rejoice\ ; you will be sorrowful\, but your sorrow will turn into joy. When a woman is in travail she has sorrow\, because her hour has come\; but when she i s delivered of the child\, she no longer remembers the anguish\, for joy t hat a human being is born into the world. So you have sorrow now\, but I w ill see you again and your hearts will rejoice\, and no one will take your joy from you. In that day\, you will ask nothing of me. Truly\, truly\, I say to you\, if you ask anything of the Father\, he will give it to you i n my name."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260527 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260528 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133036 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133037 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Hieromartyr Eutychius\, Bishop of Melitene DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 05/28/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Hieromartyr Eutychius\, Bishop of Melitene\; Nikitas\, Bishop of Chal cedon\; Helikonis the Martyr\; Heladios the Hieromartyr of the East\; Zach arias the New Martyr\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 25:13-19 \n IN THOSE DAYS\, Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived at Caesarea to welcom e Festus. And as they stayed there many days\, Festus laid Paul's case bef ore the king\, saying\, "There is a man left prisoner by Felix\; and when I was at Jerusalem\, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews gave inf ormation about him\, asking for sentence against him. I answered them that it was not the custom of the Romans to give up any one before the accused met the accusers face to face\, and had opportunity to make his defense c oncerning the charge laid against him. When therefore they came together h ere\, I made no delay\, but on the next day took my seat on the tribunal a nd ordered the man to be brought in. When the accusers stood up\, they bro ught no charge in his case of such evils as I supposed\; but they had cert ain points of dispute with him about their own superstition and about one Jesus\, who was dead\, but whom Paul asserted to be alive."\n\nGospel Read ing: John 16:23-33 \nThe Lord said to his disciples\, "Truly\, truly\, I say to you\, if you ask anything of the Father\, he will give it to you in my name. Hitherto you have asked nothing in my name\; ask\, and you will receive\, that your joy may be full.\n\n"I have said this to you in figure s\; the hour is coming when I shall no longer speak to you in figures but tell you plainly of the Father. In that day you will ask in my name\; and I do not say to you that I shall pray the Father for you\; for the Father himself loves you\, because you have loved me and have believed that I cam e from the Father. I came from the Father and have come into the world\; a gain\, I am leaving the world and going to the Father."\n\nHis disciples s aid\, "Ah\, now you are speaking plainly\, not in any figure! Now we know that you know all things\, and need none to question you\; by this we beli eve that you came from God." Jesus answered them\, "Do you now believe? Th e hour is coming\, indeed it has come\, when you will be scattered\, every man to his home\, and will leave me alone\; yet I am not alone\, for the Father is with me. I have said this to you\, that in me you may have peace ."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260528 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260529 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133037 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133038 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 The Apodosis of the Feast of the Holy Ascension DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 05/29/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: The Apodosis of the Feast of the Holy Ascension\; Theodosia the Virgi n-Martyr of Tyre\; Theodosia\, Virgin-Martyr of Constantinople\; Seven New Martyrs of Kastoria\; Andrew the New Martyr of Argentes\; John of Smyrna the New Martyr\n\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 27:1-44\; 28:1 \nIN THOSE DAYS\, when it was decided tha t we should sail for Italy\, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan Cohort\, named Julius. And embarking in a s hip of Adramyttium\, which was about to sail to the ports along the coast of Asia\, we put to sea\, accompanied by Aristarchos\, a Macedonian from T hessalonica. The next day we put in at Sidon\; and Julius treated Paul kin dly\, and gave him leave to go to his friends and be cared for. And puttin g to sea from there we sailed under the lee of Cyprus\, because the winds were against us. And when we had sailed across the sea which is off Cilici a and Pamphylia\, we came to Myra in Lycia. There the centurion found a sh ip of Alexandria sailing for Italy\, and put us on board. We sailed slowly for a number of days\, and arrived with difficulty off Cnidos\, and as th e wind did not allow us to go on\, we sailed under the lee of Crete off Sa lmone. Coasting along it with difficulty\, we came to a place called Fair Havens\, near which was the city of Lasea.\n\nAs much time had been lost\, and the voyage was already dangerous because the fast had already gone by \, Paul advised them\, saying\, "Sirs\, I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and much loss\, not only of the cargo and the ship\, but also of our lives." But the centurion paid more attention to the captain and t o the owner of the ship than to what Paul said. And because the harbor was not suitable to winter in\, the majority advised to put to sea from there \, on the chance that somehow they could reach Phoenix\, a harbor of Crete \, looking northeast and southeast\, and winter there.\n\nAnd when the sou th wind blew gently\, supposing that they had obtained their purpose\, the y weighed anchor and sailed along Crete\, close inshore. But soon a tempes tuous wind\, called the northeaster\, struck down from the land\; and when the ship was caught and could not face the wind\, we gave way to it and w ere driven. And running under the lee of a small island called Cauda\, we managed with difficulty to secure the boat\; after hoisting it up\, they t ook measures to undergird the ship\; then\, fearing that they should run o n the Syrtis\, they lowered the gear\, and so were driven. As we were viol ently storm-tossed\, they began next day to throw cargo overboard\; and th e third day they cast with their own hands the tackle of the ship. And whe n neither sun nor stars appeared for many a day\, and no small tempest lay on us\, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned.\n\nAs they had been long without food\, Paul then came forward among them and said\, "Me n\, you should have listened to me\, and should not have set sail from Cre te and incurred this injury and loss. I now bid you take heart\; for there will be no loss of life among you\, but only of the ship. For this very n ight there stood by me an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I wor ship\, and he said\, 'Do not be afraid\, Paul\; you must stand before Caes ar\; and lo\, God has granted you all those who sail with you.' So take he art\, men\, for I have faith in God that it will be exactly as I have been told. But we shall have to run on some island."\n\nWhen the fourteenth ni ght had come\, as we were drifting across the sea of Adria\, about midnigh t the sailors suspected that they were nearing land. So they sounded and f ound twenty fathoms\; a little farther on they sounded again and found fif teen fathoms. And fearing that we might run on the rocks\, they let out fo ur anchors from the stern\, and prayed for the day to come. And as the sai lors were seeking to escape from the ship\, and had lowered the boat into the sea\, under pretense of laying out anchors from the bow\, Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers\, 'Unless these men stay in the ship\, you cannot be saved." Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat\, and let it go.\n\nAs day was about to dawn\, Paul urged them all to take some food\, saying\, "Today is the fourteenth day that you have continued in su spense and without food\, having taken nothing. Therefore I urge you to ta ke some food\; it will give you strength\, since not a hair is to perish f rom the head of any of you." And when he had said this\, he took bread\, a nd giving thanks to God in the presence of all he broke it and began to ea t. Then they all were encouraged and ate some food themselves. (We were in all two hundred and seventy-six persons in the ship.) And when they had e aten enough\, they lightened the ship\, throwing out the wheat into the se a.\n\nNow when it was day\, they did not recognize the land\, but they not iced a bay with a beach\, on which they planned if possible to bring the s hip ashore. So they cast off the anchors and left them in the sea\, at the same time loosening the ropes that tied the rudders\; then hoisting the f oresail to the wind they made for the beach. But striking a shoal they ran the vessel aground\; the bow stuck and remained immovable\, and the stern was broken up by the surf. The soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners\, lest any should swim away and escape\; but the centurion\, wishing to sav e Paul\, kept them from carrying out their purpose. He ordered those who c ould swim to throw themselves overboard first and make for the land\, and the rest on planks or on pieces of the ship. And so it was that all escape d to land.\n\nAfter we had escaped\, we then learned that the island was c alled Malta.\n\nGospel Reading: John 17:18-26 \nAt that time\, Jesus lift ed up his eyes to heaven and said\, "As you\, Father\, did send me into th e world\, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sake I consecr ate myself\, that they also may be consecrated in truth.\n\n"I do not pray for these only\, but also for those who believe in me through their word\ , that they may all be one\; even as you\, Father\, are in me\, and I in y ou\, that they also may be in us\, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory which you have given me I have given to them\, tha t they may be one even as we are one\, I in them and you in me\, that they may become perfectly one\, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. Father\, I desire that t hey also\, whom you have given me\, may be with me where I am\, to behold my glory which you have given me in your love for me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father\, the world has not known you\, but I ha ve known you\; and these know that you have sent me. I made known to them your name\, and I will make it known\, that the love with which you have l oved me may be in them\, and I in them."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260529 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260530 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133038 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133039 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: The Saturday of Souls DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 05/30/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: The Saturday of Souls\; Isaacius\, Abbot of the Monastery of Dalmatus \; Macrina\, grandmother of St. Basil the Great\; Barlaam the Monk of Caes area\; Natalios the Martyr\; Emilia\, mother of Saint Basil the Great\n\nE pistle Reading: St. Paul's First Letter to the Thessalonians 4:13-17 \nBu t we would not have you ignorant\, brethren\, concerning those who are asl eep\, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again\, even so\, through Jesus\, God wil l bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord\, that we who are alive\, who are left until the c oming of the Lord\, shall not precede those who have fallen asleep. For th e Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command\, with the a rchangel's call\, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead i n Christ will rise first\; then we who are alive\, who are left\, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air\; and so we shall always be with the Lord.\n\nGospel Reading: John 21:14-25 \nAt that time\, Jesus revealed himself to the disciples after he was rai sed from the dead. And he said to Simon Peter\, "Simon\, son of John\, do you love me more than these?" He said to him\, "Yes\, Lord\; you know that I love you." He said to him\, "Feed my lambs." A second time he said to h im\, "Simon\, son of John\, do you love me?" He said to him\, "Yes\, Lord\ ; you know that I love you." He said to him\, "Tend my sheep." He said to him the third time\, "Simon\, son of John\, do you love me?" Peter was gri eved because he said to him the third time\, "Do you love me?" And he said to him\, "Lord\, you know everything\; you know that I love you." Jesus s aid to him\, "Feed my sheep. Truly\, truly\, I say to you\, when you were young\, you girded yourself and walked where you would\; but when you are old\, you will stretch out your hands\, and another will gird you and carr y you where you do not wish to go." (This he said to show by what death he was to glorify God.) And after this he said to him\, "Follow me." Peter t urned and saw following them the disciple whom Jesus loved\, who had lain close to his breast at the supper and had said\, "Lord\, who is it that is going to betray you?" When Peter saw him\, he said to Jesus\, "Lord\, wha t about this man?" Jesus said to him\, "If it is my will that he remain un til I come\, what is that to you? Follow me!" The saying spread abroad amo ng the brethren that this disciple was not to die\; yet Jesus did not say to him that he was not to die\, but\, "If it is my will that he remain unt il I come\, what is that to you?" This is the disciple who is bearing witn ess to these things\, and who has written these things\; and we know that his testimony is true. But there are also many other things which Jesus di d\; were every one of them to be written\, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. Amen.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260530 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260531 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133039 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133041 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Holy Pentecost DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 05/31/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Holy Pentecost\; Hermias the Martyr at Comana\; Eustathios\, Patriarc h of Constantinople\; Eusebius and Haralambos the Monk-martyrs\n\nMatins G ospel Reading: John 20:19-23 \nOn the evening of that day\, the first day of the week\, the doors being shut where the disciples were gathered\, fo r fear of the Jews\, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them\, "P eace be with you." When he had said this\, he showed them his hands and hi s side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again\, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me\, even so I se nd you." And when he had said this\, he breathed on them\, and said to the m\, "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any\, they are fo rgiven\; if you retain the sins of any\, they are retained."\n\nEpistle Re ading: Acts of the Apostles 2:1-11 \nWHEN THE DAY of Pentecost had come\, they were all together in one place. And suddenly a sound came from heave n like the rush of a mighty wind\, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them tongues as of fire\, distributed and resting on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Sp irit and began to speak in other tongues\, as the Spirit gave them utteran ce. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews\, devout men from every nati on under heaven. And at this sound the multitude came together\, and they were bewildered\, because each one heard them speaking in his own language . And they were amazed and wondered\, saying\, "Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we hear\, each of us in his own nat ive language? Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotami a\, Judea and Cappadocia\, Pontos and Asia\, Phrygia and Pamphylia\, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene\, and visitors from Rome\, bot h Jews and proselytes\, Cretans and Arabians\, we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God."\n\nGospel Reading: John 7:37-52\; 8 :12 \nOn the last day of the feast\, the great day\, Jesus stood up and p roclaimed\, "If any one thirst\, let him come to me and drink. He who beli eves in me\, as the scripture has said\, 'Out of his heart shall flow rive rs of living water.'" Now this he said about the Spirit\, which those who believed in him were to receive\; for as yet the Spirit had not been given \, because Jesus was not yet glorified.\n\nWhen they heard these words\, s ome of the people said\, "This is really the prophet." Others said\, "This is the Christ." But some said\, "Is the Christ to come from Galilee? Has not the scripture said that the Christ is descended from David\, and comes from Bethlehem\, the village where David was?" So there was a division am ong the people over him. Some of them wanted to arrest him\, but no one la id hands on him.\n\nThe officers then went back to the chief priests and P harisees\, who said to them\, "Why did you not bring him?" The officers an swered\, "No man ever spoke like this man!" The Pharisees answered them\, "Are you led astray\, you also? Have any of the authorities or of the Phar isees believed in him? But this crowd\, who do not know the law\, are accu rsed." Nikodemos\, who had gone to him before\, and who was one of them\, said to them\, "Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearin g and learning what he does?" They replied\, "Are you from Galilee too? Se arch and you will see that no prophet is to rise from Galilee." Again Jesu s spoke to them\, saying\, "I am the light of the world\; he who follows m e will not walk in darkness\, but will have the light of life."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260531 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260601 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133041 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133042 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Monday of the Holy Spirit DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 06/01/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Monday of the Holy Spirit\; Justin the Philosopher and Martyr and his Companions\; Pyrros the Hieromartyr\n\nFast Free\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Ephesians 5:8-19 \nBrethren\, walk as children of li ght (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and tru e)\, and try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. Take no part in the un fruitful works of darkness\, but instead expose them. For it is a shame ev en to speak of the things that they do in secret\; but when anything is ex posed by the light it becomes visible\, for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it is said\, "Awake\, O sleeper\, and arise from the d ead\, and Christ shall give you light." Look carefully then how you walk\, not as unwise men but as wise\, making the most of the time\, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish\, but understand what the will of the Lord is. And do not get drunk with wine\, for that is debauchery\; but be filled with the Spirit\, addressing one another in psalms and hymn s and spiritual songs\, singing and making melody to the Lord with all you r heart.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 18:10-20 \nThe Lord said\, "See that you do not despise one of these little ones\; for I tell you that in heave n their angels always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven. For t he Son of man came to save the lost. What do you think? If a man has a hun dred sheep\, and one of them has gone astray\, does he not leave the ninet y-nine on the hills and go in search of the one that went astray? And if h e finds it\, truly\, I say to you\, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray. So it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.\n\n"If your brother sins against you\, go and tell him his fault\, between you and him alone. If he listens to you\, you have gained your brother. But if he doe s not listen\, take one or two others along with you\, that every word may be confirmed by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them\, tell it to the church\; and if he refuses to listen even to the church\, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. Truly\ , I say to you\, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven\, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say to you \, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask\, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven\, for where two or three are gathered in m y name\, there am I in the midst of them."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260602 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133042 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133044 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: 1st Tuesday after Pentecost DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 06/02/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 1st Tuesday after Pentecost\; Nicephorus the Confessor\, Patriarch of Constantinople\; Erasmos of Ochrid &\; his Companion Martyrs\; Demetri os the New Martyr of Philadelphia\; Constantine the New Martyr of the Haga renes\n\nFast Free\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 1:1 -7\, 13-17 \nPaul\, a servant of Jesus Christ\, called to be an apostle\, set apart for the gospel of God which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures\, the gospel concerning his Son\, who was descended from David according to the flesh and designated Son of God in p ower according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead \, Jesus Christ our Lord\, through whom we have received grace and apostle ship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations\, including yourselves who are called to belong to Jesus C hrist\; To all God's beloved in Rome\, who are called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I want you to know\, brethren\, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented)\, in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles. I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians\, both to the wise and to the foolish: so I am ea ger to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome. For I am not ashamed of the gospel: it is the power of God for salvation to every one who has faith\, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousnes s of God is revealed through faith for faith\; as it is written\, "The rig hteous shall live by faith."\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 4:23-25\;5:1-13 \ nAt that time\, Jesus went about all Galilee\, teaching in their synagogue s and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and ev ery infirmity among the people. So his fame spread throughout all Syria\, and they brought him all the sick\, those afflicted with various diseases and pains\, demoniacs\, epileptics\, and paralytics\, and he healed them. And great crowds followed him from Galilee and the Dekapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and from beyond the Jordan.\n\nSeeing the crowds\, he went up o n the mountain\, and when he sat down his disciples came to him. And he op ened his mouth and taught them\, saying:\n\n"Blessed are the poor in spiri t\, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.\n\n"Blessed are those who mourn\, for they shall be comforted.\n\n"Blessed are the meek\, for they shall in herit the earth.\n\n"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteous ness\, for they shall be satisfied.\n\n"Blessed are the merciful\, for the y shall obtain mercy.\n\n"Blessed are the pure in heart\, for they shall s ee God.\n\n"Blessed are the peacemakers\, for they shall be called sons of God.\n\n"Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake\, f or theirs is the kingdom of heaven.\n\n"Blessed are you when men revile yo u and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad\, for your reward is great in heaven\, for so men persecuted the prophets who were before you.\n\n"You are the salt of the earth\; but if salt has lost its taste\, how shall its saltness be res tored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trodd en under foot by men."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260602 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260603 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133044 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133045 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: 1st Wednesday after Pentecost DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 06/03/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 1st Wednesday after Pentecost\; Lucillian of Byzantium\, 4 martyred Y ouths and Paula the Virgin\; Athanasios the Wonderworker\; Kevin\, Abbot o f Glendalough\n\nFast Free\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Ro mans 1:18-27 \nBrethren\, the wrath of God is revealed from heaven agains t all ungodliness and wickedness of men who by their wickedness suppress t he truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them\, because God h as shown it to them. Ever since the creation of the world his invisible na ture\, namely\, his eternal power and deity\, has been clearly perceived i n the things that have been made. So they are without excuse\; for althoug h they knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him\, but they became futile in their thinking and their senseless minds were darken ed. Claiming to be wise\, they became fools\, and exchanged the glory of t he immortal God for images resembling mortal man or birds or animals or re ptiles. Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurit y\, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves\, because they exc hanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator\, who is blessed for ever! Amen. For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural r elations for unnatural\, and the men likewise gave up natural relations wi th women and were consumed with passion for one another\, men committing s hameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 5:20-26 \nThe Lord said to hi s disciples\, "Unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and P harisees\, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. You have heard that it was said to the men of old\, 'You shall not kill\; and whoever kills s hall be liable to judgment.' But I say to you that every one who is angry with his brother without cause shall be liable to judgment\; whoever insul ts his brother shall be liable to the council\, and whoever says\, 'You fo ol!' shall be liable to the hell of fire. So if you are offering your gift at the altar\, and there remember that your brother has something against you\, leave your gift there before the altar and go\; first be reconciled to your brother\, and then come and offer your gift. Make friends quickly with your accuser\, while you are going with him to court\, lest your acc user hand you over to the judge\, and the judge to the guard\, and you be put in prison\; truly\, I say to you\, you will never get out till you hav e paid the last penny."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260603 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260604 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133045 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133046 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Our Father Metrophanes\, Archbishop of Constantinople DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 06/04/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Our Father Metrophanes\, Archbishop of Constantinople\; Mary &\; M artha\, the sisters of Lazarus\; Sophia of Thrace\, The Mother of Orphans\ ; Petroc\, Abbot of Padstow\n\nFast Free\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Le tter to the Hebrews 7:26-28\; 8:1-2 \nBrethren\, it was fitting that we s hould have such a high priest\, holy\, blameless\, unstained\, separated f rom sinners\, exalted above the heavens. He has no need\, like those high priests\, to offer sacrifices daily\, first for his own sins and then for those of the people\; he did this once for all when he offered up himself. Indeed\, the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests\, but the word of the oath\, which came later than the law\, appoints a Son who has been made perfect for ever. Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest\, one who is seated at the right hand of the th rone of the Majesty in heaven\, a minister in the sanctuary and the true t ent which is set up not by man but by the Lord.\n\nGospel Reading: John 10 :1-9 \nThe Lord said to the Jews who had come to him\, "Truly\, truly\, I say to you\, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs i n by another way\, that man is a thief and a robber\; but he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the gatekeeper opens\; the sheep hear his voice\, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them o ut. When he has brought out all his own\, he goes before them\, and the sh eep follow him\, for they know his voice. A stranger they will not follow\ , but they will flee from him\, for they do not know the voice of stranger s." This figure Jesus used with them\, but they did not understand what he was saying to them. So Jesus again said to them\, "Truly\, truly\, I say to you\, I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves an d robbers\; but the sheep did not heed them. I am the door\; if any one en ters by me\, he will be saved\, and will go in and out and find pasture."\ n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260604 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260605 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133046 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133047 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: 1st Friday after Pentecost DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 06/05/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 1st Friday after Pentecost\; The Holy Hieromartyr Dorotheus\, Bishop of Tyre\; Holy Martyrs Nicandrus\, Gorgus and Apollonus and those with the m\; Christophoros &\; Konon the Martyrs of Rome\n\nFast Free\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 2:14-28 \nBrethren\, when Genti les who have not the law do by nature what the law requires\, they are a l aw to themselves\, even though they do not have the law. They show that wh at the law requires is written on their hearts\, while their conscience al so bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or perhaps excuse t hem on that day when\, according to my gospel\, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus. But if you call yourself a Jew and rely upon the law and boast of your relation to God and know his will and approve what is ex cellent\, because you are instructed in the law\, and if you are sure that you are a guide to the blind\, a light to those who are in darkness\, a c orrector of the foolish\, a teacher of children\, having in the law the em bodiment of knowledge and truth - you then who teach others\, will you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing\, do you steal? You who say that one must not commit adultery\, do you commit adultery? You who a bhor idols\, do you rob temples? You who boast in the law\, do you dishono r God by breaking the law? For\, as it is written\, "The name of God is bl asphemed among the Gentiles because of you." Circumcision indeed is of val ue if you obey the law\; but if you break the law\, your circumcision beco mes uncircumcision. So\, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law\, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? Then those who are physically uncircumcised but keep the law will condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the law. For he is no t a real Jew who is one outwardly\, nor is true circumcision something ext ernal and physical.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 5:33-41 \nThe Lord said\, "You have heard that it was said to the men of old\, 'You shall not swear falsely\, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.' But I say to you\, Do not swear at all\, either by heaven\, for it is the throne of Go d\, or by the earth\, for it is his footstool\, or by Jerusalem\, for it i s the city of the great King. And do not swear by your head\, for you cann ot make one hair white or black. Let what you say be simply 'Yes' or 'No'\ ; anything more than this comes from evil. You have heard that it was said \, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.' But I say to you\, Do not resist one who is evil. But if any one strikes you on the right cheek\, tu rn to him the other also\; and if any one would sue you and take your coat \, let him have your cloak as well\; and if any one forces you to go one m ile\, go with him two miles."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260605 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260606 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133047 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133048 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: The Apodosis of Holy Pentecost DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 06/06/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: The Apodosis of Holy Pentecost\; Hilarion the New of Dalmation Monast ery\; Bessarion the Wonderworker of Egypt\; 5 Virgins of Caesarea: Martha\ , Mary\, Cyris\, Valeria &\; Marcia\n\nFast Free\n\nEpistle Reading: St . Paul's Letter to the Romans 1:7-12 \nBrethren\, grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. First\, I thank my God thro ugh Jesus Christ for all of you\, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world. For God is my witness\, whom I serve with my spirit in the gosp el of his Son\, that without ceasing I mention you always in my prayers\, asking that somehow by God's will I may now at last succeed in coming to y ou. For I long to see you\, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift t o strengthen you\, that is\, that we may be mutually encouraged by each ot her's faith\, both yours and mine.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 5:42-48 \nT he Lord said\, "Give to him who begs from you\, and do not refuse him who would borrow from you. You have heard that it was said\, 'You shall love y our neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I say to you\, Love your enemies an d pray for those who persecute you\, so that you may be sons of your Fathe r who is in heaven\; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good \, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you\, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the sa me? And if you salute only your brethren\, what more are you doing than ot hers? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? You\, therefore\, must be perf ect\, as your heavenly Father is perfect."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260606 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260607 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133048 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1894349942 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:St. George Cathedral Picnic (St. George Cathedral Picnic) DESCRIPTION:Who: St. George Cathedral Picnic\n\n LOCATION:Veterans Pavilion\, Schenley Park CATEGORIES:Church Events CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260607T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260607T140000 CREATED:20250608T025652Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1894349942 X-TEAMUP-WHO:St. George Cathedral Picnic X-TEAMUP-WHERE:Veterans Pavilion\, Schenley Park END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133049 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: The Sunday of All Saints DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 06/07/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: The Sunday of All Saints\; The Holy Martyr Theodotus of Ancyra\; Our Righteous Father Panagis (Paisios) Basias\; Tarasios &\; John the Marty rs\; Sebastian the Wonderworker\; Zenais the Martyr\n\nMatins Gospel Readi ng: Matthew 28:16-20 \nAt that time\, the eleven disciples went to Galile e\, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. And when they saw Hi m they worshiped Him\; but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them\, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations\, baptizing them in the name of the Fath er and the Son and the Holy Spirit\, teaching them to observe all that I h ave commanded you\; and lo\, I am with you always\, to the close of the ag e. Amen."\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 11:33-40\; 12:1-2 \nBrethren\, all the saints through faith conquered kingdoms\, enf orced justice\, received promises\, stopped the mouths of lions\, quenched raging fire\, escaped the edge of the sword\, won strength out of weaknes s\, became mighty in war\, put foreign armies to flight. Women received th eir dead by resurrection. Some were tortured\, refusing to accept release\ , that they might rise again to a better life. Others suffered mocking and scourging\, and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned\, they wer e sawn in two\, they were tempted\, they were killed with the sword\; they went about in skins of sheep and goats\, destitute\, afflicted\, ill-trea ted - of whom the world was not worthy - wandering over deserts and mounta ins and in dens and caves of the earth. And all these\, though well attest ed by their faith\, did not receive what was promised\, since God had fore seen something better for us\, that apart from us they should not be made perfect. Therefore\, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnes ses\, let us also lay aside every weight\, and sin which clings so closely \, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us\, looki ng to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith.\n\nGospel Reading: Mat thew 10:32-33\; 37-38\; 19:27-30 \nThe Lord said to his disciples\, "Ever y one who acknowledges me before men\, I also will acknowledge before my F ather who is in heaven\; but whoever denies me before men\, I also will de ny him before my Father who is in heaven. He who loves father or mother mo re than me is not worthy of me\; and he who loves son or daughter more tha n me is not worthy of me\; and he who does not take his cross and follow m e is not worthy of me." Then Peter said in reply\, "Lo\, we have left ever ything and followed you. What then shall we have?" Jesus said to them\, "T ruly\, I say to you\, in the new world\, when the Son of man shall sit on his glorious throne\, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thr ones\, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And every one who has left hou ses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands\, for my name's sake\, will receive a hundredfold\, and inherit eternal life. Bu t many that are first will be last\, and the last first."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260607 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260608 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133049 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133050 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🐟 Removal of the Relics of Theodore the Commander DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 06/08/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Removal of the Relics of Theodore the Commander\; Kalliope the Martyr \; Melania the Righteous\; Anastasios the New Martyr of Constantinople\; T heophanes the New Martyr of Constantinople\n\nFast Day (Fish Allowed)\n\nE pistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Ephesians 2:4-10 \nBrethren\, Go d who is rich in mercy\, out of the great love with which he loved us\, ev en when we were dead through our trespasses\, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)\, and raised us up with him\, and ma de us sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus\, that in the co ming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness t oward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith\; and this is not your own doing\, it is the gift of God: not because of wo rks\, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship\, created in C hrist Jesus for good works\, which God prepared beforehand\, that we shoul d walk in them.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 10:16-22 \nThe Lord said to hi s disciples\, "Behold\, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves\; s o be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. Beware of men\; for they will deliver you up to councils\, and flog you in their synagogues\, and you w ill be dragged before governors and kings for my sake\, to bear testimony before them and the Gentiles. When they deliver you up\, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say\; for what you are to say wil l be given to you in that hour\; for it is not you who speak\, but the Spi rit of your Father speaking through you. Brother will deliver up brother t o death\, and the father his child\, and children will rise against parent s and have them put to death\; and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260608 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260609 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133050 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133051 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🐟 Cyril\, Patriarch of Alexandria DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 06/09/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Cyril\, Patriarch of Alexandria\; 3 Virgin-martyrs of Chios\; 5 Nuns beheaded in Persia: Thecla\, Mariamne\, Martha\, Mary\, &\; Enmatha\; R ighteous Father Columba of Iona\; Righteous Father Cyril of Belozersk\n\nF ast Day (Fish Allowed)\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 4:4-12 \nBrethren\, to one who works\, his wages are not reckoned as a g ift but as his due. And to one who does not work but trusts him who justif ies the ungodly\, his faith is reckoned as righteousness. So also David pr onounces a blessing upon the man to whom God reckons righteousness apart f rom works: "Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven\, and whose si ns are covered\; blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not reckon his sin." Is this blessing pronounced only upon the circumcised\, or also upon the uncircumcised? We say that faith was reckoned to Abraham as right eousness. How then was it reckoned to him? Was it before or after he had b een circumcised? It was not after\, but before he was circumcised. He rece ived circumcision as a sign or seal of the righteousness which he had by f aith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the fat her of all who believe without being circumcised and who thus have righteo usness reckoned to them\, and likewise the father of the circumcised who a re not merely circumcised but also follow the example of the faith which o ur father Abraham had before he was circumcised.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthe w 7:15-21 \nThe Lord said\, "Beware of false prophets\, who come to you i n sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns\, or figs from thistles? So \, every sound tree bears good fruit\, but the bad tree bears evil fruit. A sound tree cannot bear evil fruit\, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the f ire. Thus you will know them by their fruits. Not every one who says to me \, 'Lord\, Lord\,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven\, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260609 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260610 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133051 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133052 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Alexander and Antonina the Martyrs DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 06/10/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Alexander and Antonina the Martyrs\; Timothy\, Bishop of Proussa\; Th eophanes &\; Pansemne of Antioch\; Our Holy Father Gregory\, Bishop of Assos\; The Holy Martyrs of China\n\nStrict Fast\n\nEpistle Reading: St. P aul's Letter to the Romans 4:13-25 \nBrethren\, the promise to Abraham an d his descendants\, that they should inherit the world\, did not come thro ugh the law but through the righteousness of faith. If it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs\, faith is null and the promise is voi d. For the law brings wrath\, but where there is no law there is no transg ression. That is why it depends on faith\, in order that the promise may r est on grace and be guaranteed to all his descendants -- not only to the a dherents of the law but also to those who share the faith of Abraham\, for he is the father of us all\, as it is written\, "I have made you the fath er of many nations" -- in the presence of the God in whom he believed\, wh o gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not e xist. In hope he believed against hope\, that he should become the father of many nations\; as he had been told\, "So shall your descendants be." He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body\, which was as go od as dead because he was about a hundred years old\, or when he considere d the barrenness of Sarah's womb. No distrust made him waver concerning th e promise of God\, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God \, fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. That is w hy his faith was "reckoned to him as righteousness." But the words\, "it w as reckoned to him\," were written not for his sake alone\, but for ours a lso. It will be reckoned to us who believe in him that raised from the dea d Jesus our Lord\, who was put to death for our trespasses and raised for our justification.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 7:21-23 \nThe Lord said\, " Not every one who says to me\, 'Lord\, Lord\,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven\, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that d ay many will say to me\, 'Lord\, Lord\, did we not prophesy in your name\, and cast out demons in your name\, and do many mighty works in your name? ' And then will I declare to them\, 'I never knew you\; depart from me\, y ou evildoers.'"\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260610 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260611 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133052 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133054 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🐟 Bartholomew the Holy Apostle DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 06/11/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Bartholomew the Holy Apostle\; Barnabas the Holy Apostle\; Revelation of the Hymn Axion Estin to a monk on Mt. Athos by the Archangel Gabriel\; Luke of Simferopol\n\nFast Day (Fish Allowed)\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: L uke 10:16-21 \nThe Lord said to his disciples\, "He who hears you hears m e\, and he who rejects you rejects me\, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me." The seventy returned with joy\, saying\, "Lord\, even the de mons are subject to us in your name!" And he said to them\, "I saw Satan f all like lightning from heaven. Behold\, I have given you authority to tre ad upon serpents and scorpions\, and over all the power of the enemy\; and nothing shall hurt you. Nevertheless do not rejoice in this\, that the sp irits are subject to you\; but rejoice that your names are written in heav en." In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said\, "I thank you\, Father\, Lord of heaven and earth\, that you have hidden these thing s from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes\; yes\, Fathe r\, for such was your gracious will."\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apos tles 11:19-30 \nIn those days\, those apostles who were scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia a nd Cyprus and Antioch\, speaking the word to none except Jews. But there w ere some of them\, men of Cyprus and Cyrene\, who on coming to Antioch spo ke to the Greeks also\, preaching the Lord Jesus. And the hand of the Lord was with them\, and a great number that believed turned to the Lord. News of this came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem\, and they sent Barna bas to Antioch. When he came and saw the grace of God\, he was glad\; and he exhorted them all to remain faithful to the Lord with steadfast purpose \; for he was a good man\, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a lar ge company was added to the Lord. So Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for S aul\; and when he had found him\, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole y ear they met with the church\, and taught a large company of people\; and in Antioch the disciples were for the first time called Christians. Now in these days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. And one of them named Agabos stood up and foretold by the Spirit that there would be a gre at famine over all the world\; and this took place in the days of Claudius . And the disciples determined\, every one according to his ability\, to s end relief to the brethren who lived in Judea\, and they did so\, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.\n\nGospel Reading: Luke 10:16-21 \nThe Lord said to his disciples\, "He who hears you hears me\, and he who rejects you rejects me\, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me." The seventy returned with joy\, saying\, "Lord\, even the demon s are subject to us in your name!" And he said to them\, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold\, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions\, and over all the power of the enemy\; and no thing shall hurt you. Nevertheless do not rejoice in this\, that the spiri ts are subject to you\; but rejoice that your names are written in heaven. " In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said\, "I thank you \, Father\, Lord of heaven and earth\, that you have hidden these things f rom the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes\; yes\, Father\, for such was your gracious will."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260611 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260612 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133054 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133055 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Onuphrius of Egypt DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 06/12/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Onuphrius of Egypt\; Peter the Athonite\; Holy Martyr Antonine\; John the Soldier of Egypt\n\nStrict Fast\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 5:17-21\; 6:1-2 \nBrethren\, if\, because of one man's tre spass\, death reigned through that one man\, much more will those who rece ive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in lif e through the one man Jesus Christ.\n\nThen as one man's trespass led to c ondemnation for all men\, so one man's act of righteousness leads to acqui ttal and life for all men. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners\, so by one man's obedience many will be made righteous. Law came in\, to increase the trespass\; but where sin increased\, grace abounded all the more\, so that\, as sin reigned in death\, grace also might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.\n\nWh at shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 9:14-17 \nAt that time\, the disciples of John came to Jesus\, sa ying\, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast\, but your disciples do not fast? " And Jesus said to them\, "Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the br idegroom is with them? The days will come\, when the bridegroom is taken a way from them\, and then they will fast. And no one puts a piece of unshru nk cloth on an old garment\, for the patch tears away from the garment\, a nd a worse tear is made. Neither is new wine put into old wineskins\; if i t is\, the skins burst\, and the wine is spilled\, and the skins are destr oyed\; but new wine is put into fresh wineskins\, and so both are preserve d."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260612 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260613 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133055 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133056 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🐟 Aquilina the Martyr of Syria DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 06/13/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Aquilina the Martyr of Syria\; Triphyllos the Bishop of Nicosia\n\nFa st Day (Fish Allowed)\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 3:19-24 \nBrethren\, we know that whatever the law says it speaks to thos e who are under the law\, so that every mouth may be stopped\, and the who le world may be held accountable to God. For no human being will be justif ied in his sight by works of the law\, since through the law comes knowled ge of sin. But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from law\, although the law and the prophets bear witness to it\, the righteou sness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction\; since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of G od\, they are justified by his grace as a gift\, through the redemption wh ich is in Christ Jesus.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 7:1-8 \nThe Lord said\ , "Judge not\, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged\, and the measure you give will be the measure you get . Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye\, but do not noti ce the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother\, ' Let me take the speck out of your eye\,' when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite\, first take the log out of your own eye\, and then yo u will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. Do not giv e dogs what is holy\; and do not throw your pearls before swine\, lest the y trample them under foot and turn to attack you. Ask\, and it will be giv en you\; seek\, and you will find\; knock\, and it will be opened to you. For every one who asks receives\, and he who seeks finds\, and to him who knocks it will be opened.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260613 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260614 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133056 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133057 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🐟 2nd Sunday of Matthew DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 06/14/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 2nd Sunday of Matthew\; The Holy Prophet Elisseus (Elisha)\; Methodiu s the Confessor\, Patriarch of Constantinople\; Cyril\, Bishop of Gortyna\ ; The Holy Martyrs of Estonia: the Priests Basil\, John\, John\, Artemios\ , and Nicholas\; the Deacons Vasili and Peter\; the Presytera Martha\; and John\, Theodor\, and Anna.\n\nFast Day (Fish Allowed)\n\nMatins Gospel Re ading: Mark 16:1-8 \nWhen the Sabbath was past\, Mary Magdalene\, and Mar y the mother of James and Salome\, bought spices\, so that they might go a nd anoint Jesus. And very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb when the sun had risen. And they were saying to one another\, "Wh o will roll away the stone for us from the door of the tomb?" And looking up\, they saw that the stone was rolled back - it was very large. And ente ring the tomb\, they saw a young man sitting on the right side\, dressed i n a white robe\; and they were amazed. And he said to them\, "Do not be am azed\; you seek Jesus of Nazareth\, who was crucified. He has risen\, He i s not here\; see the place where they laid Him. But go\, tell His disciple s and Peter that He is going before you to Galilee\; there you will see Hi m\, as He told you." And they went out and fled from the tomb\, for trembl ing and astonishment had come upon them\; and they said nothing to anyone\ , for they were afraid.\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Roman s 2:10-16 \nBrethren\, glory and honor and peace for every one who does g ood\, the Jew first and also the Greek. For God shows no partiality. All w ho have sinned without the law will also perish without the law\, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God\, but the doers of the la w who will be justified. When Gentiles who have not the law do by nature w hat the law requires\, they are a law to themselves\, even though they do not have the law. They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts\, while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or perhaps excuse them on that day when\, according to my gospel\, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 4:18-23 \nAt that time\, as Jesus walked by the Sea of Galilee\, he saw two brothers\, Simon who is called Peter and Andrew his brother\, casting a net into the sea\; for they were fishermen. And he said to them\ , "Follow me\, and I will make you fishers of men." Immediately they left their nets and followed him. And going on from there he saw two other brot hers\, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother\, in the boat with Ze bedee their father\, mending their nets\, and he called them. Immediately they left their boat and their father\, and followed him. And he went abou t all Galilee\, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of t he kingdom and healing every disease and every infirmity among the people. \n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260614 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260615 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133057 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133058 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🐟 Amos the Prophet DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 06/15/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Amos the Prophet\; Our Righteous Father Hieronymus\; Augustine the Bl essed\, Bishop of Hippo\; Jerome the Righteous\; Achikos\, Stephanas\, &am p\; Fortuanatos the Apostles\; Father among the Saints Jonas\, Metropolita n of Kiev\; Lazar of Serbia\n\nFast Day (Fish Allowed)\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 7:1-14 \nBrethren\, I am speaking to tho se who know the law. Do you not know that the law is binding on a person o nly during his life? Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband a s long as he lives\; but if her husband dies she is discharged from the la w concerning the husband. Accordingly\, she will be called an adulteress i f she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husban d dies she is free from that law\, and if she marries another man she is n ot an adulteress.\n\nLikewise\, my brethren\, you have died to the law thr ough the body of Christ\, so that you may belong to another\, to him who h as been raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God. Whil e we were living in the flesh\, our sinful passions\, aroused by the law\, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. But now we are disch arged from the law\, dead to that which held us captive\, so that we serve not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit.\n\nWhat then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet\, if it had not been for the law\, I should not have known sin. I should not have known wh at it is to covet if the law had not said\, "You shall not covet." But sin \, finding opportunity in the commandment\, wrought in me all kinds of cov etousness. Apart from the law sin lies dead. I was once alive apart from t he law\, but when the commandment came\, sin revived and I died\; the very commandment which promised life proved to be death to me. For sin\, findi ng opportunity in the commandment\, deceived me and by it killed me. So th e law is holy\, and the commandment is holy and just and good.\n\nDid that which is good\, then\, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin\, worki ng death in me through what is good\, in order that sin might be shown to be sin\, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.\n \nGospel Reading: Matthew 9:36-38\; 10:1-8 \nAt that time\, when Jesus sa w the crowds\, he had compassion for them\, because they were harassed and helpless\, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples\, "The harvest is plentiful\, but the laborers are few\; pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest."\n\nAnd he cal led to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spiri ts\, to cast them out\, and to heal every disease and every infirmity. The names of the twelve apostles are these: first\, Simon\, who is called Pet er\, and Andrew his brother\; James the son of Zebedee\, and John his brot her\; Philip and Bartholomew\; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector\; Jame s the son of Alphaios\, and Lebbaeos called Thaddaios\; Simon the Cananaea n\, and Judas Iscariot\, who betrayed him. These twelve Jesus sent out\, c harging them\, "Go nowhere among the Gentiles\, and enter no town of the S amaritans\, but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And pr each as you go\, saying\, 'The kingdom of heaven is at hand.' Heal the sic k\, raise the dead\, cleanse lepers\, cast out demons. You received withou t paying\, give without pay."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260615 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260616 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133058 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133059 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🐟 Tychon the Wonderworker DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 06/16/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Tychon the Wonderworker\; 40 Martyrs of Rome\; Mark the Just of Apoll onia\n\nFast Day (Fish Allowed)\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to t he Romans 7:14-8:2 \nBrethren\, we know that the law is spiritual\; but I am carnal\, sold under sin. I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want\, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want\, I agree that the law is good. So then it is no longer I that d o it\, but sin which dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells within me\, that is\, in my flesh. I can will what is right\, but I canno t do it. For I do not do the good I want\, but the evil I do not want is w hat I do. Now if I do what I do not want\, it is no longer I that do it\, but sin which dwells within me.\n\nSo I find it to be a law that when I wa nt to do right\, evil lies close at hand. For I delight in the law of God\ , in my inmost self\, but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of dea th? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then\, I of myself serve the law of God with my mind\, but with my flesh I serve the law of s in.\n\nThere is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free f rom the law of sin and death.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 10:9-15 \nThe Lo rd said to his disciples\, "Take no gold\, nor silver\, nor copper in your belts\, no bag for your journey\, nor two tunics\, nor sandals\, nor a st aff\; for the laborer deserves his food. And whatever town or village you enter\, find out who is worthy in it\, and stay with him until you depart. As you enter the house\, salute it. And if the house is worthy\, let your peace come upon it\; but if it is not worthy\, let your peace return to y ou. And if any one will not receive you or listen to your words\, shake of f the dust from your feet as you leave that house or town. Truly I say to you\, it shall be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of So dom and Gomorrah than for that town."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260616 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260617 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133059 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133060 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Isaurus the Holy Martyr & his Companions of Athens DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 06/17/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Isaurus the Holy Martyr &\; his Companions of Athens\; Manuel\, Sa bel\, &\; Ishmael the Martyrs of Persia\; Righteous Father Botolph\, Ab bot of the Monastery of Ikanhoe\n\nStrict Fast\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Pau l's Letter to the Romans 8:2-13 \nBrethren\, the law of the Spirit of lif e in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death. For God h as done what the law\, weakened by the flesh\, could not do: sending his o wn Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin\, he condemned sin in t he flesh\, in order that the just requirement of the law might be fulfille d in us\, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things o f the flesh\, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds o n the things of the Spirit. To set the mind on the flesh is death\, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God\; it does not submit to God's law\, indeed it cannot\; and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.\n\nBut you are not in the flesh\, you are in the Spirit\, if in fact the Spirit of God d wells in you. Any one who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belo ng to him. But if Christ is in you\, although your bodies are dead because of sin\, your spirits are alive because of righteousness. If the Spirit o f him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you\, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit which dwells in you.\n\nSo then\, brethren\, we are debtors\, not t o the flesh\, to live according to the flesh-for if you live according to the flesh you will die\, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds o f the body you will live.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 10:16-22 \nThe Lord said to his disciples\, "Behold\, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves\; so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. Beware of men\; for they will deliver you up to councils\, and flog you in their synagogues\, and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake\, to bear testimony before them and the Gentiles. When they deliver you up\, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say\; for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour\; for it is not you who speak\, b ut the Spirit of your Father speaking through you. Brother will deliver up brother to death\, and the father his child\, and children will rise agai nst parents and have them put to death\; and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260617 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260618 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133060 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133061 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🐟 Leontius\, Hypatius\, & Theodulus the Martyrs of Syria DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 06/18/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Leontius\, Hypatius\, &\; Theodulus the Martyrs of Syria\; Leontio s the Myrrh-Streamer of Argos\; Aitherios the Martyr of Nicomedia\n\nFast Day (Fish Allowed)\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 8:2 2-27 \nBrethren\, we know that the whole creation has been groaning in tr avail together until now\; and not only the creation\, but we ourselves\, who have the first fruits of the Spirit\, groan inwardly as we wait for ad option as sons\, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were sa ved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? Bu t if we hope for what we do not see\, we wait for it with patience.\n\nLik ewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness\; for we do not know how to pray as we ought\, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too dee p for words. And he who searches the Spirit intercedes for the saints acco rding to the will of God.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 10:23-31 \nThe Lord said to his disciples\, "When they persecute you in one town\, flee to the next\; for truly\, I say to you\, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the Son of man comes. A disciple is not above his t eacher\, nor a servant above his master\; it is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher\, and the servant like his master. If they have calle d the master of the house Beelzebul\, how much more will they malign those of his household. So have no fear of them\; for nothing is covered that w ill not be revealed\, or hidden that will not be known. What I tell you in the dark\, utter in the light\; and what you hear whispered\, proclaim up on the housetops. And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul\; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna. Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to th e ground without your Father's will. But even the hairs of your head are a ll numbered. Fear not\, therefore\; you are of more value than many sparro ws."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260618 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260619 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133061 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133062 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Thaddeus (Jude) the Apostle & Brother of Our Lord DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 06/19/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Thaddeus (Jude) the Apostle &\; Brother of Our Lord\; Holy Martyr Zosima\; Our Righteous Father Zenonus\; Paisius the Great of Egypt\n\nStri ct Fast\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Jude's First Universal Letter 1:1-25 \nJU DE\, a servant of Jesus Christ\, and brother of James\, To those who are c alled\, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ: May mercy\, p eace\, and love be multiplied to you. Beloved\, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation\, I found it necessary to write appealing t o you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the sai nts. For admission has been secretly gained by some who long ago were desi gnated for this condemnation\, ungodly persons who pervert the grace of ou r God into licentiousness and deny the only Master and our Lord Jesus Chri st. Now I desire to remind you\, though you were once for all fully inform ed\, that the Lord saved a people out of the land of Egypt\, afterward des troyed those who did not believe. And the angels that did not keep their o wn position but left their proper dwelling have been kept by him in eterna l chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day\; just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities\, which likewise acted immo rally and indulged in unnatural lust\, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire. Yet in like manner these men in their dreamin gs defile the flesh\, reject authority\, and revile the glorious ones. But when the archangel Michael\, contending with the devil\, disputed about t he body of Moses\, he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upo n him\, but said\, "The Lord rebuke you." But these men revile whatever th ey do not understand\, and by those things that they know by instinct as i rrational animals\, they are destroyed. Woe to the ungodly\, for they walk in the way of Cain\, and abandon themselves for the sake of gain to Balaa m's error\, and perish in Korah's rebellion. These are blemishes on your l ove feasts\, as they boldly carouse together\, looking after themselves\; waterless clouds\, carried along by winds\; fruitless trees in late autumn \, twice dead\, uprooted\; wild waves of the sea\, casting up the foam of their own shame\; wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness ha s been reserved for ever. It was of these also that Enoch in the seventh g eneration from Adam prophesied\, saying\, "Behold\, the Lord came with his holy myriads\, to execute judgment on all\, and to convict all the ungodl y of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have committed in such an u ngodly way\, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him." These are grumblers\, malcontents\, following their own pas sions\, loud-mouthed boasters\, flattering people to gain advantage. But y ou must remember\, beloved\, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord J esus Christ\; they said to you\, "in the last time there will be scoffers\ , following their own ungodly passions." It is these who set up divisions\ , worldly people\, devoid of the Spirit. But you\, beloved\, build yoursel ves up on your most holy faith\; pray in the Holy Spirit\; keep yourselves in the love of God\; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto ete rnal life. And convince some\, who doubt\; save some\, by snatching them o ut of the fire\; on some have mercy with fear\, hating even the garment sp otted by the flesh. Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of his glory with rejoici ng\, to the only God\, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord\, be glory \, majesty\, dominion\, and authority\, before all time and now and for ev er. Amen.\n\nGospel Reading: John 14:21-24 \nThe Lord said to his discipl es\, "He who has my commandments and keeps them\, he it is who loves me\; and he who loves me will be loved by my Father\, and I will love him and m anifest myself to him." Judas (not Iscariot) said to him\, "Lord\, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us\, and not to the world?" Jesus an swered him\, "If a man loves me\, he will keep my word\, and my Father wil l love him\, and we will come to him and make our home with him. He who do es not love me does not keep my words\; and the word which you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260619 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260620 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133062 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133063 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🐟 Methodios the Martyr\, Bishop of Olympus DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 06/20/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Methodios the Martyr\, Bishop of Olympus\; Kallistos I\, Patriarch of Constantinople\; Nicholas Cabasilas of Thessaloniki\n\nFast Day (Fish All owed)\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 3:28-31\; 4:1-3 \nBrethren\, we hold that a man is justified by faith apart from works of law. Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes\, of Gentiles also\, since God is one\; and he will justify the circum cised on the ground of their faith and the uncircumcised through their fai th. Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contra ry\, we uphold the law. What then shall we say about Abraham\, our forefat her according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works\, he has something to boast about\, but not before God. For what does the scriptur e say? "Abraham believed God\, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness ."\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 7:24-29\; 8:1-4 \nThe Lord said\, "Every on e who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house upon the rock\; and the rain fell\, and the floods came\, and the winds blew and beat upon that house\, but it did not fall\, becaus e it had been founded on the rock. And every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house u pon the sand\; and the rain fell\, and the floods came\, and the winds ble w and beat against that house\, and it fell\; and great was the fall of it ." And when Jesus finished these sayings\, the crowds were astonished at h is teaching\, for he taught them as one who had authority\, and not as the ir scribes. When he came down from the mountain\, great crowds followed hi m\; and behold\, a leper came to him and knelt before him saying\, "Lord\, if you will\, you can make me clean." And he stretched out his hand and t ouched him\, saying\, "I will\; be clean." And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. And Jesus said to him\, "See that you say nothing to any one\; but go\, show yourself to the priest\, and offer the gift that Moses comma nded\, for a proof to them."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260620 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260621 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133063 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2106812425 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Father's Day Lunch hosted by the Antiochian Women CATEGORIES:Antiochian Women CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260621T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260621T123000 CREATED:20260601T143638Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260601T143730Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2106812425 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133064 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🐟 3rd Sunday of Matthew DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 06/21/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 3rd Sunday of Matthew\; Julian the Martyr of Tarsus\; Terentios\, Bis hop of Iconium\; Nikitas the New Martyr of Nisyros\n\nFast Day (Fish Allow ed)\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: Mark 16:9-20 \nWhen Jesus rose early on the first day of the week\, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene\, from whom H e had cast out seven demons. She went and told those who had been with Him \, as they mourned and wept. But when they heard that He was alive and had been seen by her\, they would not believe it.\n\nAfter this he appeared i n another form to two of them\, as they were walking into the country. And they went back and told the rest\, but they did not believe them. After t his He appeared to the eleven themselves as they sat at table and He upbra ided them for their unbelief and hardness of heart\, because they had not believed those who saw Him after He had risen. And He said to them\, "Go i nto all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation. He who beli eves and is baptized will be saved\; but he who does not believe will be c ondemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: in My name the y will cast out demons\; they will speak in new tongues\; they will pick u p serpents\, and if they drink any deadly thing\, it will not hurt them\; they will lay their hands on the sick\, and they will recover."\n\nSo then the Lord Jesus\, after He had spoken to them\, was taken up into heaven\, and sat down at the right hand of God. And they went forth and preached e verywhere\, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by t he signs that attended it. Amen.\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 5:1-10 \nBrethren\, since we are justified by faith\, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have obtained access by faith to this grace in which we stand\, and we rejoice in our h ope of sharing the glory of God. More than that\, we rejoice in our suffer ings\, knowing that suffering produces endurance\, and endurance produces character\, and character produces hope\, and hope does not disappoint us\ , because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spir it which has been given to us. While we were still weak\, at the right tim e Christ died for the ungodly. Why\, one will hardly die for a righteous m an -- though perhaps for a good man one will dare even to die. But God sho ws his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. S ince\, therefore\, we are now justified by his blood\, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we wer e reconciled to God by the death of his Son\, much more\, now that we are reconciled\, shall we be saved by his life.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 6:2 2-33 \nThe Lord said\, "The eye is the lamp of the body. So\, if your eye is sound\, your whole body will be full of light\; but if your eye is not sound\, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in yo u is darkness\, how great is the darkness! No one can serve two masters\; for either he will hate the one and love the other\, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Theref ore I tell you\, do not be anxious about your life\, what you shall eat or what you shall drink\, nor about your body\, what you shall put on. Is no t life more than food\, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns\, and yet you r heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And whi ch of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field\, how the y grow\; they neither toil nor spin\; yet I tell you\, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the gr ass of the field\, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the ov en\, will he not much more clothe you\, O men of little faith? Therefore d o not be anxious\, saying\, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear? For the Gentiles seek all these things\; and your heavenly Father knows you need them all. But seek first his kingdom and h is righteousness\, and all these things shall be yours as well."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260621 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260622 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133064 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133066 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🐟 Eusebius\, Bishop of Samosata DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 06/22/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Eusebius\, Bishop of Samosata\; Zenon the Martyr &\; his servant Z enas of Philadelphia\; Anastasia the Serbian\; Alban the Protomartyr of Br itain\n\nFast Day (Fish Allowed)\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 9:18-33 \nBrethren\, God has mercy on whomever he wills\, and he hardens the heart of whomever he wills. You will say to me then\, "Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?" But who are you\, a man\, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder\, "Wh y have you made me thus?" Has the potter no right over the clay\, to make out of the same lump one vessel for beauty and another for menial use? Wha t if God\, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power\, has en dured with much patience the vessels of wrath made for destruction\, in or der to make known the riches of his glory for the vessels of mercy\, which he has prepared beforehand for glory\, even us whom he has called\, not f rom the Jews only but also from the Gentiles? As indeed he says in Hosea\, "Those who were not my people I will call 'my people\,' and her who was n ot beloved I will call 'my beloved.'" "And in the very place where it was said to them\, 'You are not my people\,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.'" And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: "Though the number o f the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea\, only a remnant of them wi ll be saved\; for the Lord will execute his sentence upon the earth with r igor and dispatch." And as Isaiah predicted\, "if the Lord of hosts had no t left us children\, we would have fared like Sodom and been made like Gom orrah." What shall we say\, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteo usness have attained it\, that is\, righteousness through faith\; but that Israel who pursued the righteousness which is based on law did not succee d in fulfilling that law. Why? Because they did not pursue it through fait h\, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumblin g stone\, as it is written\, "Behold\, I am laying in Zion a stone that wi ll make men stumble\, a rock that will make them fall\; and he who believe s in him will not be put to shame."\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 11:2-15 \n At that time\, when John heard in prison about the deeds of the Christ\, h e sent word by his disciples and said to him\, "Are you he who is to come\ , or shall we look for another?" And Jesus answered them\, "Go and tell Jo hn what you hear and see: the blind receive their sight and the lame walk\ , lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear\, and the dead are raised up\, and the poor have good news preached to them. And blessed is he who takes no offense at me." As they went away\, Jesus began to speak to the crowds con cerning John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to behold? A reed s haken by the wind? What then did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold\, those who wear soft raiment are in kings' houses. What t hen did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes\, I tell you\, and more than a p rophet. This is he of whom it is written\, 'Behold\, I send my messenger b efore your face\, who shall prepare your way before you.' Truly\, I say to you\, among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist\; yet he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has been coming violently and men of violence take it by force. For all the p rophets and the law prophesied until John\; and if you are willing to acce pt it\, he is Elijah who is to come. He who has ears to hear\, let him hea r."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260622 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260623 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133066 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133067 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🐟 Agrippina the Martyr of Rome DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 06/23/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Agrippina the Martyr of Rome\; Holy Martyrs Aristocleus the Priest\, Demetrius the Deacon and Athanasius the Reader\; The Holy New Bishop Marty rs Gerasimus of Crete\, Neophytos of Knossos\, Joachim of Cherronisos\, Hi erotheos of Lampi\, Zachariah of Sitia\, Joachim of Petra\, Gerasimos of R ethymno\, Kallinikos of Kydonia\, Melchizedek of Kissamos\, Kallinikos of Diopolos\, and those Martyred with them (1821-1822)\; Mark\, Bishop of Eph esus\; Etheldreda the Queen\n\nFast Day (Fish Allowed)\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 10:11-21\; 11:1-2 \nBrethren\, the scrip ture says\, "No one who believes in God will be put to shame." For there i s no distinction between Jew and Greek\; the same Lord is Lord of all and bestows his riches upon all who call upon him. For\, "every one who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved." But how are men to call upon him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of who m they have never heard? And how are they to hear without a preacher? And how can men preach unless they are sent? As it is written\, "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach good news!" But they have not all obeyed the gospel\; for Isaiah says\, "Lord\, who has believed what he has heard from us?" So faith comes from what is heard\, and what is heard comes by the preaching of Christ. But I ask\, have they not heard? Indeed they have \; for "Their voice has gone out to all the earth\, and their words to the ends of the world." Again I ask\, did Israel not understand? First Moses says\, "I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation\; with a foo lish nation I will make you angry." Then Isaiah is so bold as to say\, "I have been found by those who did not seek me\; I have shown myself to thos e who did not ask for me." But of Israel he says\, "All day long I have he ld out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people." I ask\, then\, has God rejected his people? By no means! I myself am an Israelite\, a descend ant of Abraham\, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected h is people whom he foreknew.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 11:16-20 \nThe Lor d said\, "To what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sit ting in the marketplaces and calling to their playmates\, 'We piped to you \, and you did not dance\; we wailed\, and you did not mourn.' For John ca me neither eating nor drinking\, and they say\, 'He has a demon'\; the Son of man came eating and drinking\, and they say\, 'Behold\, a glutton and a drunkard\, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Yet wisdom is justif ied by her children." Then he began to upbraid the cities where most of hi s mighty works had been done\, because they did not repent.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260623 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260624 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133067 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133068 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🐟 Nativity of the Forerunner John the Baptist DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 06/24/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Nativity of the Forerunner John the Baptist\; Elizabeth\, Mother of t he Forerunner\; Athanasios Parios\; Panagiotis the New Martyr\n\nFast Day (Fish Allowed)\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: Luke 1:24-25\, 57-68\, 76\, 80 \ nAt that time\, Elizabeth\, the wife of Zacharias conceived\, and for five months hid herself\, saying\, "Thus the Lord has done to me in the days w hen he looked on me\, to take away my reproach among men." Now the time ca me for Elizabeth to be delivered\, and she gave birth to a son. And her ne ighbors and kinsfolk heard that the Lord had shown great mercy to her\, an d they rejoiced with her. And on the eighth day they came to circumcise th e child\; and they would have named him Zacharias after his father\, but h is mother said\, "Not so\; he shall be called John." And they said to her\ , "None of your kindred is called by this name." And they made signs to hi s father\, inquiring what he would have him called. And he asked for a wri ting tablet\, and wrote\, "His name is John." And they all marveled. And i mmediately his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed\, and he spoke\, ble ssing God. And fear came on all their neighbors. And all these things were talked about through all the hill country of Judea\; and all who heard th em laid them up in their hearts\, saying\, "What then will this child be?" For the hand of the Lord was with him. And his father Zacharias was fille d with the Holy Spirit\, and prophesied\, saying\, "Blessed be the Lord Go d of Israel\, for he has visited and redeemed his people\, and you\, child \, will be called the prophet of the Most High\; for you will go before th e Lord to prepare his ways." And the child grew and became strong in spiri t\, and he was in the wilderness till the day of his manifestation to Isra el.\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 13:11-14\; 14:1-4 \nBrethren\, salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed\; the night is far gone\, the day is at hand. Let us then cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light\; let us conduct ourselves beco mingly as in the day\, not in reveling and drunkenness\, not in debauchery and licentiousness\, not in quarreling and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ\, and make no provision for the flesh\, to gratify its desire s.\n\nAs for the man who is weak in faith\, welcome him\, but not for disp utes over opinions. One believes he may eat anything\, while the weak man eats only vegetables. Let not him who eats despise him who abstains\, and let not him who abstains pass judgment on him who eats\; for God has welco med him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is bef ore his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld\, for Go d is able to make him stand.\n\nGospel Reading: Luke 1:1-25\, 57-68\, 76\, 80 \nInasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the thin gs which have been accomplished among us\, just as they were delivered to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word\, it seemed good to me also\, having followed all things closely for some time past\, to write an orderly account for you\, most excellent Theo philos\, that you may know the truth concerning the things of which you ha ve been informed. In the days of Herod\, king of Judea\, there was a pries t named Zacharias\, of the division of Abijah\; and he had a wife of the d aughters of Aaron\, and her name was Elizabeth. And they were both righteo us before God\, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. But they had no child\, because Elizabeth was barren\, and bot h were advanced in years. Now while he was serving as priest before God wh en his division was on duty\, according to the custom of the priesthood\, it fell to him by lot to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense. An d the whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of in cense. And there appeared to him an angel of the Lord standing on the righ t side of the altar of incense. And Zacharias was troubled when he saw him \, and fear fell upon him. But the angel said to him\, "Do not be afraid\, Zacharias\, for your prayer is heard\, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son\, and you shall call his name John. And you will have joy and gl adness\, and many will rejoice at his birth\; for he will be great before the Lord\, and he shall drink no wine nor strong drink\, and he will be fi lled with the Holy Spirit\, even from his mother's womb. And he will turn many of the sons of Israel to the Lord their God\, and he will go before h im in the spirit and power of Elijah\, to turn the hearts of the fathers t o the children\, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just\, to make r eady for the Lord a people prepared." And Zacharias said to the angel\, "H ow shall I know this? For I am an old man\, and my wife is advanced in yea rs." And the angel answered him\, "I am Gabriel\, who stands in the presen ce of God\; and I was sent to speak to you\, and to bring you this good ne ws. And behold\, you will be silent and unable to speak until the day that these things come to pass\, because you did not believe my words\, which will be fulfilled in their time." And the people were waiting for Zacharia s\, and they wondered at his delay in the temple. And when he came out\, h e could not speak to them\, and they perceived that he had seen a vision i n the temple\; and he made signs to them and remained dumb. And when his t ime of service was ended\, he went to his home.\n\nAfter these days his wi fe Elizabeth conceived\, and for five months she hid herself\, saying\, "T hus the Lord has done to me in the days when he looked on me\, to take awa y my reproach among men." Now the time came for Elizabeth to be delivered\ , and she gave birth to a son. And her neighbors and kinsfolk heard that t he Lord had shown great mercy to her\, and they rejoiced with her. And on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child\; and they would have nam ed him Zacharias after his father\, but his mother said\, "Not so\; he sha ll be called John." And they said to her\, "None of your kindred is called by this name." And they made signs to his father\, inquiring what he woul d have him called. And he asked for a writing tablet\, and wrote\, "His na me is John." And they all marveled. And immediately his mouth was opened a nd his tongue loosed\, and he spoke\, blessing God. And fear came on all t heir neighbors. And all these things were talked about through all the hil l country of Judea\; and all who heard them laid them up in their hearts\, saying\, "What then will this child be?" For the hand of the Lord was wit h him.\n\nAnd his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit\, and p rophesied\, saying\, "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel\, for he has visit ed and redeemed his people. And you\, child\, will be called the prophet o f the Most High\; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways." An d the child grew and became strong in spirit\, and he was in the wildernes s till the day of his manifestation to Israel.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260624 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260625 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133068 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133069 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🐟 Leavetaking of the Nativity of the Forerunner John the Baptist DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 06/25/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Leavetaking of the Nativity of the Forerunner John the Baptist\; The Righteous Martyr Febronia\; Methodius of Nevritos\; Prokopios the New Mart yr\; Dionysius &\; Dometios the Righteous of Mount Athos\; Orentios\, P harmakios\, Eros\, Phirmos\, Phirminos\, Kyriakos\, and Longinos the Marty rs and Brothers\n\nFast Day (Fish Allowed)\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 11:13-24 \nBrethren\, I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles\, I magnify my ministry in order to make my fellow Jews jealous\, and thus save some of them. For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world\, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead? If the dough offered as first fru its is holy\, so is the whole lump\; and if the root is holy\, so are the branches. But if some of the branches were broken off\, and you\, a wild o live shoot\, were grafted in their place to share the richness of the oliv e tree\, do not boast over the branches. If you do boast\, remember it is not you that support the root\, but the root that supports you. You will s ay\, "Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in." That is tru e. They were broken off because of their unbelief\, but you stand fast onl y through faith. So do not become proud\, but stand in awe. For if God did not spare the natural branches\, neither will he spare you. Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen\, but God's kindness to you\, provided you continue in his kindness\; other wise you too will be cut off. And even the others\, if they do not persist in their unbelief\, will be grafted in\, for God has the power to graft t hem in again. For if you have been cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree\, and grafted\, contrary to nature\, into a cultivated olive tree\, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own o live tree.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 11:27-30 \nThe Lord said to his dis ciples\, "All things have been delivered to me by my Father\; and no one k nows the Son except the Father\, and no one knows the Father except the So n and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. Come to me\, all who labor and are heavy laden\, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon yo u\, and learn from me\; for I am gentle and lowly in heart\, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy\, and my burden is light."\n \n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260625 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260626 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133069 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133071 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ David the Righteous of Thessalonika DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 06/26/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: David the Righteous of Thessalonika\; Appearance of the Icon of Our M ost Holy Lady the Theotokos of Tikhvin\n\nStrict Fast\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 11:25-36 \nBrethren\, lest you be wise in your own conceits\, I want you to understand this mystery: a hardening ha s come upon part of Israel\, until the full number of Gentiles come in\, a nd so all Israel will be saved\; as it is written\, "The Deliverer will co me from Zion\, he will banish ungodliness from Jacob"\; "and this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins." As regards the gospel they are enemies of God\, for your sake\; but as regards election they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers. For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable. Just as you were once disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience\, so they have now been diso bedient in order that by the mercy shown to you they also may receive merc y. For God has consigned all men to disobedience\, that he may have mercy upon all. O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How u nsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! "For who has k nown the mind of the Lord\, or who has been his counselor?" "Or who has gi ven a gift to him that he might be repaid?" For from him and through him a nd to him are all things. To him be glory for ever. Amen.\n\nGospel Readin g: Matthew 12:1-8 \nAt that time\, Jesus went through the grain fields on the sabbath\; his disciples were hungry\, and they began to pluck heads o f grain and to eat. But when the Pharisees saw it\, they said to him\, "Lo ok\, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the sabbath." He said to them\, "Have you not read what David did\, when he was hungry\, a nd those who were with him: how he entered the house of God and ate the br ead of the Presence\, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him\, but only for the priests? Or have you not read in the law how on the sabbath the priests in the temple profane the sabbath\, an d are guiltless? I tell you\, something greater than the temple is here. A nd if you had known what this means\, 'I desire mercy\, and not sacrifice\ ,' you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of man is lord of the sabbath."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260626 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260627 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133071 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133072 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🐟 Samson the Hospitable DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 06/27/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Samson the Hospitable\; Joanna the Myrrhbearer\; Anektos the Martyr\; Luke the Hermit\n\nFast Day (Fish Allowed)\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 6:11-17 \nBrethren\, you also must consider yoursel ves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.\n\nLet not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies\, to make you obey their passions. Do not yie ld your members to sin as instruments of wickedness\, but yield yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life\, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness. For sin will have no dominion ove r you\, since you are not under law but under grace.\n\nWhat then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! Do you n ot know that if you yield yourselves to any one as obedient slaves\, you a re slaves of the one whom you obey\, either of sin\, which leads to death\ , or of obedience\, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God\, t hat you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 8:14-23 \nAt that time\, when Jesus entered Peter's house\, he sa w his mother-in-law lying sick with a fever\; he touched her hand\, and th e fever left her\, and she rose and served him. That evening they brought to him many who were possessed with demons\; and he cast out the spirits w ith a word\, and healed all who were sick. This was to fulfill what was sp oken by the prophet Isaiah\, "He took our infirmities and bore our disease s."\n\nNow when Jesus saw great crowds around him\, he gave orders to go o ver to the other side. And a scribe came up and said to him\, "Teacher\, I will follow you wherever you go." And Jesus said to him\, "Foxes have hol es\, and birds of the air have nests\; but the Son of man has nowhere to l ay his head." Another of the disciples said to him\, "Lord\, let me first go and bury my father." But Jesus said to him\, "Follow me\, and leave the dead to bury their own dead." And when he entered the boat\, his disciple s followed him.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260627 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260628 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133072 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133073 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🐟 4th Sunday of Matthew DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 06/28/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 4th Sunday of Matthew\; Finding of the Relics of Cyrus and John the U nmercenaries\; Sergios the Magister\; Pappias the Martyr\; Righteous Fathe rs Sergius and Herman\, Founders of Valaam Monastery\; Synaxis of the Icon of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos \; Paul the Physician of Corinth\n\nF ast Day (Fish Allowed)\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: Luke 24:1-12 \nOn the fi rst day of the week at early dawn\, the women went to the tomb\, taking sp ices\, which they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb\, but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Je sus. While they were perplexed about this\, behold\, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel\; and as they were frightened and bowed their faces t o the ground\, the men said to them\, "Why do you seek the living among th e dead? He is not here\, but has risen. Remember how He told you\, while H e was still in Galilee\, that the Son of Man must be delivered into the ha nds of sinful men\, and be crucified\, and on the third day rise." And the y remembered His words and returning from the tomb they told all this to t he eleven and to all the rest. Now it was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Ma ry the mother of James and the other women with them who told this to the Apostles\; but these words seemed to them an idle tale\, and they did not believe them. But Peter rose and ran to the tomb\; stooping and looking in \, he saw the linen cloths by themselves\; and he went home wondering at w hat had happened.\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 6:18 -23 \nBrethren\, having been set free from sin\, you have become slaves o f righteousness. I am speaking in human terms\, because of your natural li mitations. For just as you once yielded your members to impurity and to gr eater and greater iniquity\, so now yield your members to righteousness fo r sanctification.\n\nWhen you were slaves of sin\, you were free in regard to righteousness. But then what return did you get from the things of whi ch you are now ashamed? The end of those things is death. But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God\, the return yo u get is sanctification and its end\, eternal life. For the wages of sin i s death\, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lor d.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 8:5-13 \nAt that time\, as Jesus entered Ca pernaum\, a centurion came forward to him\, beseeching him and saying\, "L ord\, my servant is lying paralyzed at home\, in terrible distress." And h e said to him\, "I will come and heal him." But the centurion answered him \, "Lord\, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof\; but only say t he word\, and my servant will be healed. For I am a man under authority\, with soldiers under me\; and I say to one\, 'Go\,' and he goes\, and to an other\, 'Come\,' and he comes\, and to my slave\, 'Do this\,' and he does it." When Jesus heard him\, he marveled\, and said to those who followed h im\, "Truly\, I say to you\, not even in Israel have I found such faith. I tell you\, many will come from east and west and sit at table with Abraha m\, Isaac\, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven\, while the sons of the kin gdom will be thrown into the outer darkness\; there men will weep and gnas h their teeth." And to the centurion Jesus said\, "Go\; be it done for you as you have believed." And the servant was healed at that very moment.\n\ n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260628 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260629 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133073 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133074 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Peter and Paul\, the Holy Apostles DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 06/29/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Peter and Paul\, the Holy Apostles\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: John 21: 14-25 \nAt that time\, Jesus revealed himself to the disciples after he w as raised from the dead. And he said to Simon Peter\, "Simon\, son of John \, do you love me more than these?" He said to him\, "Yes\, Lord\; you kno w that I love you." He said to him\, "Feed my lambs." A second time he sai d to him\, "Simon\, son of John\, do you love me?" He said to him\, "Yes\, Lord\; you know that I love you." He said to him\, "Tend my sheep." He sa id to him the third time\, "Simon\, son of John\, do you love me?" Peter w as grieved because he said to him the third time\, "Do you love me?" And h e said to him\, "Lord\, you know everything\; you know that I love you." J esus said to him\, "Feed my sheep. Truly\, truly\, I say to you\, when you were young\, you girded yourself and walked where you would\; but when yo u are old\, you will stretch out your hands\, and another will gird you an d carry you where you do not wish to go." (This he said to show by what de ath he was to glorify God.) And after this he said to him\, "Follow me." P eter turned and saw following them the disciple whom Jesus loved\, who had lain close to his breast at the supper and had said\, "Lord\, who is it t hat is going to betray you?" When Peter saw him\, he said to Jesus\, "Lord \, what about this man?" Jesus said to him\, "If it is my will that he rem ain until I come\, what is that to you? Follow me!" The saying spread abro ad among the brethren that this disciple was not to die\; yet Jesus did no t say to him that he was not to die\, but\, "If it is my will that he rema in until I come\, what is that to you?" This is the disciple who is bearin g witness to these things\, and who has written these things\; and we know that his testimony is true. But there are also many other things which Je sus did\; were every one of them to be written\, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. Amen.\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 11:21-33\; 12:1-9 \ nBrethren\, whatever anyone dares to boast of -- I am speaking as a fool - - I also dare to boast of that. Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israel ites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I. Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one -- I am talking like a madman -- with far gr eater labors\, far more imprisonments\, with countless beatings\, and ofte n near death. Five times I have received at the hands of the Jews the fort y lashes less one. Three times I have been beaten with rods\; once I was s toned. Three times I have been shipwrecked\; a night and a day I have been adrift at sea\; on frequent journeys\, in danger from rivers\, danger fro m robbers\, danger from my own people\, danger from Gentiles\, danger in t he city\, danger in the wilderness\, danger at sea\, danger from false bre thren\; in toil and hardship\, through many a sleepless night\, in hunger and thirst\, often without food\, in cold and exposure. And\, apart from o ther things\, there is the daily pressure upon me of my anxiety for all th e churches. Who is weak\, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall\, and I a m not indignant?\n\nIf I must boast\, I will boast of the things that show my weakness. The God and Father of the Lord Jesus\, he who is blessed for ever\, knows that I do not lie. At Damascus\, the governor under King Are tas guarded the city of Damascus in order to seize me\, but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall\, and escaped his hands.\n\nI mu st boast\; there is nothing to be gained by it\, but I will go on to visio ns and revelations of the Lord. I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven -- whether in the body or out of the body I do not know\, God knows. And I know that this man was caught up in to Paradise -- whether in the body or out of the body I do not know\, God knows -- and he heard things that cannot be told\, which man may not utter . On behalf of this man I will boast\, but on my own behalf I will not boa st\, except of my weaknesses. Though if I wish to boast\, I shall not be a fool\, for I shall be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it\, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me. And to k eep me from being too elated by the abundance of revelations\, a thorn was given me in the flesh\, a messenger of Satan\, to harass me\, to keep me from being too elated. Three times I besought the Lord about this\, that i t should leave me\; but he said to me\, "My grace is sufficient for you\, for my power is made perfect in weakness." I will all the more gladly boas t of my weaknesses\, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 16:13-19 \nAt that time\, when Jesus came into the distr ict of Caesarea Philippi\, he asked his disciples\, "Who do men say that t he Son of man is?" And they said\, "Some say John the Baptist\, others say Elijah\, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets." He said to them\, " But who do you say that I am?" Simon Peter replied\, "You are the Christ\, the Son of the living God." And Jesus answered him\, "Blessed are you\, S imon Bar Jona! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you\, but my F ather who is in heaven. And I tell you\, you are Peter\, and on this rock I will build my church\, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven\, and whatever you b ind on earth shall be bound in heaven\, and whatever you loose on earth sh all be loosed in heaven."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260629 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260630 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133074 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133076 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Synaxis of the Twelve Holy Apostles DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 06/30/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Synaxis of the Twelve Holy Apostles\; Michael the New Martyr of Athen s\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 4:9-16 \ nBrethren\, God has exhibited us apostles as last of all\, like men senten ced to death\; because we have become a spectacle to the world\, to angels and to men. We are fools for Christ's sake\, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak\, but you are strong. You are held in honor\, but we in disrep ute. To the present hour we hunger and thirst\, we are ill-clad and buffet ed and homeless\, and we labor\, working with our own hands. When reviled\ , we bless\; when persecuted\, we endure\; when slandered\, we try to conc iliate\; we have become\, and are now\, as the refuse of the world\, the o ff-scouring of all things. I do not write this to make you ashamed\, but t o admonish you as my beloved children. For though you have countless guide s in Christ\, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Ch rist Jesus through the gospel. I urge you\, then\, be imitators of me.\n\n Gospel Reading: Matthew 9:36\, 10:1-8 \nAt that time\, when Jesus saw the crowds\, he had compassion for them\, because they were harassed and help less\, like sheep without a shepherd. And he called to him his twelve disc iples and gave them authority over unclean spirits\, to cast them out\, an d to heal every disease and every infirmity. The names of the twelve apost les are these: first\, Simon\, who is called Peter\, and Andrew his brothe r\; James the son of Zebedee\, and John his brother\; Philip and Bartholom ew\; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector\; James the son of Alphaios\, an d Thaddaios\; Simon the Cananaean. and Judas Iscariot\, who betrayed him. These twelve Jesus sent out\, charging them\, "Go nowhere among the Gentil es\, and enter no town of the Samaritans\, but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And preach as you go\, saying\, 'The kingdom of h eaven is at hand.' Heal the sick\, raise the dead\, cleanse lepers\, cast out demons. You received without paying\, give without pay."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260630 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260701 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133076 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133077 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 Cosmas & Damian the Holy Unmercenaries DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 07/01/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Cosmas &\; Damian the Holy Unmercenaries\; Constantine the New Mar tyr of Cyprus\; Aaron and Julius the Martyrs of Caerelon\; Germanus\, Bish op of the Isle of Man\n\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\n\nEpistle Readin g: St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 12:27-31\; 13:1-8 \nBrethre n\, you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. And God has appointed in the church first apostles\, second prophets\, third teachers \, then workers of miracles\, then healers\, helpers\, administrators\, sp eakers in various kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Ar e all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way. If I speak in the t ongues of men and of angels\, but have not love\, I am a noisy gong or a c langing cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers\, and understand all myster ies and all knowledge\, and if I have all faith\, so as to remove mountain s\, but have not love\, I am nothing. If I give away all I have\, and if I deliver my body to be burned\, but have not love\, I gain nothing. Love i s patient and kind\; love is not jealous or boastful\; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way\; it is not irritable or rese ntful\; it does not rejoice at wrong\, but rejoices in the right. Love bea rs all things\, believes all things\, hopes all things\, endures all thing s. Love never ends.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 10:1\, 5-8 \nAt that time\ , Jesus called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over un clean spirits\, to cast them out\, and to heal every disease and every inf irmity. These twelve Jesus sent out\, charging them\, "Go nowhere among th e Gentiles\, and enter no town of the Samaritans\, but go rather to the lo st sheep of the house of Israel. And preach as you go\, saying\, 'The king dom of heaven is at hand.' Heal the sick\, raise the dead\, cleanse lepers \, cast out demons. You received without paying\, give without pay."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260701 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260702 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133077 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133078 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Deposition of the Precious Robe of the Theotokos in Blachernae DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 07/02/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Deposition of the Precious Robe of the Theotokos in Blachernae\; Syna xis of the Most Holy Theotokos of the Orphan\; Juvenal\, Patriarch of Jeru salem\; Juvenal the Protomartyr of America &\; Alaska\; John Maximovitc h\, Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul' s Letter to the Hebrews 9:1-7 \nBRETHREN\, the first covenant had regulat ions for worship and an earthly sanctuary. For a tent was prepared\, the o uter one\, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of the Presence\; it is called the Holy Place. Behind the second curtain stood a tent called the Holy of Holies\, having the golden altar of incense and th e ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold\, which contained a g olden urn holding the manna\, and Aaron's rod that budded\, and the tables of the covenant\; above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the m ercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail. These preparatio ns having thus been made\, the priests go continually into the outer tent\ , performing their ritual duties\; but into the second only the high pries t goes\, and he but once a year\, and not without taking blood which he of fers for himself and for the errors of the people.\n\nGospel Reading: Luke 1:39-49\, 56 \nIn those days\, Mary arose and went with haste into the h ill country\, to a city of Judah\, and she entered the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth. And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary\, the babe leaped in her womb\; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit a nd she exclaimed with a loud cry\, "Blessed are you among women\, and bles sed is the fruit of your womb! And why is this granted me\, that the mothe r of my Lord should come to me? For behold\, when the voice of your greeti ng came to my ears\, the babe in my womb leaped for joy. And blessed is sh e who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord."\n\nAnd Mary said\, "My soul magnifies the Lord\, and my s pirit rejoices in God my Savior\, for he has regarded the low estate of hi s handmaiden. For behold\, henceforth all generations will call me blessed \; for he who is mighty has done great things for me\, and holy is his nam e." And Mary remained with her about three months\, and returned to her ho me.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260702 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260703 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133078 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133079 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Hyacinth the Martyr of Caesarea & Theodotos and Theodota the Martyrs DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 07/03/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Hyacinth the Martyr of Caesarea &\; Theodotos and Theodota the Mar tyrs\; Anatolius\, Patriarch of Constantinople\; Gerasimos the Holy Martyr of Karenesi\; Translation of the Holy Relics of our Father Among the Sain ts Philip\, Metropolitan of Moscow\n\nStrict Fast\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 16:1-16 \nBrethren\, I commend to you our sis ter Phoebe\, a deaconess of the church at Cenchreai\, that you may receive her in the Lord as befits the saints\, and help her in whatever she may r equire from you\, for she has been a helper of many and of myself as well. Greet Prisca and Aquila\, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus\, who risked their necks for my life\, to whom not only I but also all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks\; greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epainetos\, who was the first convert in Asia for Christ. Greet Ma ry\, who has worked hard among you. Greet Andronicos and Junias\, my kinsm en and my fellow prisoners\; they are men of note among the apostles\, and they were in Christ before me. Greet Ampliatos\, my beloved in the Lord. Greet Urbanus\, our fellow worker in Christ\, and my beloved Stachys. Gree t Apelles\, who is approved in Christ. Greet those who belong to the famil y of Aristobulos. Greet my kinsman Herodion. Greet those in the Lord who b elong to the family of Narcissos. Greet those workers in the Lord\, Trypha ina and Tryphosa. Greet the beloved Persis\, who has worked hard in the Lo rd. Greet Rufus\, eminent in the Lord\, also his mother and mine. Greet As yncritos\, Phlegon\, Hermes\, Patrobas\, Hermas\, and the brethren who are with them. Greet Philologos\, Julia\, Nereus and his sister\, and Olympas \, and all the saints who are with them. Greet one another with a holy kis s. All the churches of Christ greet you.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 13:3-9 \nThe Lord said this parable\, "A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed \, some seeds fell along the path\, and the birds came and devoured them. Other seeds fell on rocky ground\, where they had not much soil\, and imme diately they sprang up\, since they had no depth of soil\, but when the su n rose they were scorched\; and since they had no root they withered away. Other seeds fell upon thorns\, and the thorns grew up and choked them. Ot her seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain\, some a hundredfold\, some sixty\, some thirty. He who has ears to hear\, let him hear."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260703 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260704 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133079 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133080 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Andrew of Crete Author of the Great Canon DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 07/04/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Andrew of Crete Author of the Great Canon\; Martha\, mother of St. Sy meon Stylites the Younger\; Asclepias the Wonderworker\; Michael Choniates \, Metropolitan of Athens\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Rom ans 8:14-21 \nBrethren\, all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.\n\nFor you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into f ear\, but you have received the spirit of sonship. When we cry\, "Abba! Fa ther!" it is the Spirit himself bearing witness with our spirit that we ar e children of God\, and if children\, then heirs\, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ\, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.\n\nI consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God\; for the creation was subjected to futility\, not of its own will bu t by the will of him who subjected it in hope\; because the creation itsel f will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liber ty of the children of God.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 9:9-13 \nAt that ti me\, as Jesus passed on\, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax o ffice\; and he said to him\, "Follow me." And he rose and followed him.\n\ nAnd as he sat at table in the house\, behold\, many tax collectors and si nners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples. And when the Pharise es saw this\, they said to his disciples\, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?" But when he heard it\, he said\, "Those who are well have no need of a physician\, but those who are sick. Go and lear n what this means\, 'I desire mercy\, and not sacrifice.' For I came not t o call the righteous\, but sinners to repentance."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260704 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260705 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133080 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2097783978 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Parish Life Conference of the Eastern Diocese LOCATION:Bealeton\, Virginia X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Church Events CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260701 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260705 CREATED:20260516T221037Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2097783978 X-TEAMUP-WHERE:Bealeton\, Virginia END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133081 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: 5th Sunday of Matthew DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 07/05/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 5th Sunday of Matthew\; Athanasius of Mount Athos\; Righteous Father Lampadus the Wonderworker\; Kyprianos the New Martyr of Koutloumousiou Mon astery\; Uncovering of the Holy Relics of Our Righteous Father Sergius of Radonezh\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: Luke 24:12-35 \nAt that time\, \\[Pete r rose and ran to the tomb\; stooping and looking in\, he saw the linen cl oths by themselves\; and he went home wondering at what had happened. That very day\\] two of them were going to a village named Emmaus\, about seve n miles from Jerusalem\, and talking with each other about all these thing s that had happened. While they were talking and discussing together\, Jes us Himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were kept from rec ognizing Him. And He said to them\, "What is this conversation which you a re holding with each other as you walk?" and they stood still\, looking sa d. Then one of them\, named Cleopas\, answered Him\, "Are you the only vis itor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?" And He said to them\, "What things?" And they said to him\, "Concerning Jesus of Nazareth\, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people\, and how our chief priests and rulers deliv ered Him up to be condemned to death\, and crucified Him. But we had hoped that He was the one to redeem Israel. Yes\, and besides all this\, it is now the third day since this happened. Moreover\, some women of our compan y amazed us. They were at the tomb early in the morning and did not find H is body\; and they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of an gels\, who said that He was alive. Some of those who were with us went to the tomb\, and found it just as the women had said\; but Him they did not see." And He said to them\, "O foolish men\, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was not it necessary that the Christ sh ould suffer these things and enter into this glory?" And beginning with Mo ses and all the prophets\, He interpreted to them in all the scriptures th e things concerning Himself. So they drew near to the village to which the y were going. He appeared to be going further\, but they constrained Him\, saying\, "Stay with us\, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent." So He went in to stay with them. When He was at table with them\, He took the bread and blessed\, and broke it\, and gave it to them. And th eir eyes were opened and they recognized Him\; and He vanished out of thei r sight. They said to each other\, "Did not our hearts burn within us whil e He talked to us on the road\, while He opened to us the scriptures?" And they rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem\; and they found the e leven gathered together and those who were with them\, who said\, "The Lor d has risen indeed\, and has appeared to Simon!" Then they told what had h appened on the road and how He was known to them in the breaking of the br ead.\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Galatians 5:22-26\; 6:1- 2 \nBrethren\, the fruit of the Spirit is love\, joy\, peace\, patience\, kindness\, goodness\, faithfulness\, gentleness\, self-control\; against such there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit\, let us also walk by the Spirit. Let us have no self-conceit\, no provoking of on e another\, no envy of one another. Brethren\, if a man is overtaken in an y trespass\, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentl eness. Look to yourself\, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another's burd ens\, and so fulfill the law of Christ.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 8:28-34 \; 9:1 \nAt that time\, when Jesus came to the country of the Gergesenes\ , two demoniacs met him\, coming out of the tombs\, so fierce that no one would pass that way. And behold\, they cried out\, "What have you to do wi th us\, O Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?" N ow a herd of many swine was feeding at some distance from them. And the de mons begged him\, "If you cast us out\, send us away into the herd of swin e." And he said to them\, "Go." So they came out and went into the swine\; and behold\, the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea\, and perished in the waters. The herdsmen fled\, and going into the city they told everything\, and what had happened to the demoniacs. And behold\, all the city came out to meet Jesus\; and when they saw him\, they begged him to leave their neighborhood. And getting into a boat he crossed over and came to his own city.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260705 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260706 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133081 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133083 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Sisoes the Great DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 07/06/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Sisoes the Great\; Holy Apostles Archippus\, Philemon and Onesimus\; Loukia the Virgin-martyr\, Rixios and the 24 Companion Martyrs\; Juliana t he Virgin-martyr\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 16:17 -24 \nBrethren\, I appeal to you to take note of those who create dissens ions and difficulties\, in opposition to the doctrine which you have been taught\; avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ\, but t heir own appetites\, and by fair and flattering words they deceive the hea rts of the simple-minded. For while your obedience is known to all\, so th at I rejoice over you\, I would have you wise as to what is good and guile less as to what is evil\; then the God of peace will soon crush Satan unde r your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Timothy\, my fellow worker\, greets you\; so do Lucius and Jason and Sosipater\, my kin smen. I Tertius\, the writer of this letter\, greet you in the Lord. Gaius \, who is host to me and to the whole church\, greets you. Erastos\, the c ity treasurer\, and our brother Quartus\, greet you. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 13:10-23\, 43 \nAt that time\, the disciples of Jesus came to him and said to him\, "Why do you speak to the crowds in parables?" And he answered them\, "To y ou it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven\, but to them it has not been given. For to him who has will more be given\, and h e will have abundance\; but from him who has not\, even what he has will b e taken away. This is why I speak to them in parables\, because seeing the y do not see\, and hearing they do not hear\, nor do they understand. With them indeed is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah which says: 'You shall in deed hear but never understand\, and you shall indeed see but never percei ve. For this people's heart has grown dull\, and their ears are heavy of h earing\, and their eyes they have closed\, lest they should perceive with their eyes\, and hear with their ears\, and understand with their heart\, and turn for me to heal them.' But blessed are your eyes\, for they see\, and your ears\, for they hear. Truly\, I say to you\, many prophets and ri ghteous men longed to see what you see\, and did not see it\, and to hear what you hear\, and did not hear it.\n\n"Hear then the parable of the sowe r. When any one hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it\, the evil one comes and snatches away what is sown in his heart\; this is what was sown along the path. As for what was sown on rocky ground\, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy\; yet he has no root in himself\, but endures for a while\, and when tribulation or pe rsecution arises on account of the word\, immediately he falls away. As fo r what was sown among thorns\, this is he who hears the word\, but the car es of the world and the delight in riches choke the word\, and it proves u nfruitful. As for what was sown on good soil\, this is he who hears the wo rd and understands it\; he indeed bears fruit\, and yields\, in one case a hundredfold\, in another sixty\, and in another thirty. He who has ears t o hear\, let him hear."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260706 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260707 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133083 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133084 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Kyriake the Great Martyr DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 07/07/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Kyriake the Great Martyr\; Thomas the Righteous of Malea\; Akakios of Sinai\; Willibald\, Bishop of Eichstatt\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Le tter to the Galatians 3:23-29\; 4:1-5 \nBrethren\, before faith came\, we were confined under the law\, kept under restraint until faith should be revealed. So that the law was our custodian until Christ came\, that we mi ght be justified by faith. But now that faith has come\, we are no longer under a custodian\; for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God\, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek\, there is neither slave nor free\, there is neither male nor female\; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if y ou are Christ's\, then you are Abraham's offspring\, heirs according to pr omise. I mean that the heir\, as long as he is a child\, is no better than a slave\, though he is the owner of all the estate\; but he is under guar dians and trustees until the date set by the father. So with us\; when we were children\, we were slaves to the elemental spirits of the universe. B ut when the time had fully come\, God sent forth his Son\, born of a woman \, born under the law\, to redeem those who were under the law\, so that w e might receive adoption as sons.\n\nGospel Reading: Mark 5:24-34 \nAt th at time\, a great crowd followed Jesus and thronged about him. And there w as a woman who had had a flow of blood for twelve years\, and who had suff ered much under many physicians\, and had spent all that she had\, and was no better but rather grew worse. She had heard the reports about Jesus\, and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. For she said\ , "If I touch even his garments\, I shall be made well." And immediately t he hemorrhage ceased\; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. And Jesus\, perceiving in himself that power had gone forth from him\, immediately turned about in the crowd\, and said\, "Who touched my garments?" And his disciples said to him\, "You see the crowd pressing aro und you\, and yet you say\, 'Who touched me?'" And he looked around to see who had done it. But the woman\, knowing what had been done to her\, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him\, and told him the whole t ruth. And he said to her\, "Daughter\, your faith has made you well\; go i n peace\, and be healed of your disease."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260707 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260708 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133084 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133085 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 The Holy Great Martyr Procopius DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 07/08/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: The Holy Great Martyr Procopius\; Theophilos the Myrrhbearer of Panto krator Monastery\; Appearance of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of Ka zan\n\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Firs t Letter to Timothy 4:9-15 \nTimothy\, my son\, the saying is sure and wo rthy of full acceptance. For to this end we toil and suffer reproach\, bec ause we have our hope set on the living God\, who is the Savior of all men \, especially of those who believe. Command and teach these things. Let no one despise your youth\, but set the believers an example in speech and c onduct\, in love\, in faith\, in purity. Till I come\, attend to the publi c reading of scripture\, to preaching\, to teaching. Do not neglect the gi ft you have\, which was given you by prophetic utterance when the council of elders laid their hands upon you. Practice these duties\, devote yourse lf to them\, so that all may see your progress.\n\nGospel Reading: Luke 6: 17-19\, 9:1-2\, 10:16-21 \nAt that time\, a crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people came to Jesus from all Judea and Jerusalem and t he seacoast of Tyre and Sidon\, who came to hear him and to be healed of t heir diseases\; and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cure d. And all the crowd sought to touch him\, for power came forth from him a nd healed them all. And he called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases\, and sent them out to preach the kingdom of God and to heal\, and He said to them: "He who hears you hears me\, and he who rejects you rejects me\, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me." The seventy returned with joy\, saying\, "Lord\, even the demons are subject to us in your name!" And he said to them\, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold\, I have given you auth ority to tread upon serpents and scorpions\, and over all the power of the enemy\; and nothing shall hurt you. Nevertheless do not rejoice in this\, that the spirits are subject to you: but rejoice that your names are writ ten in heaven." In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said\ , "I thank you\, Father\, Lord of heaven and earth\, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes\; yes\, Father\, for such was your gracious will.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260708 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260709 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133085 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133087 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: The Holy Hieromartyr Pancratius\, Bishop of Tauromenium in Sicily DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 07/09/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: The Holy Hieromartyr Pancratius\, Bishop of Tauromenium in Sicily\; D ionysios the Orator\; Metrophanes of Mount Athos\; Methodios the Hieromart yr\, Bishop of Lampis\; Patermuthius the Monk\; Euthymios of Karelia\; Mic hael Paknanas the Gardener\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 3:18-23 \nBrethren\, let no one deceive himself. If any o ne among you thinks that he is wise in this age\, let him become a fool th at he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written\, "He catches the wise in their craftiness\," and again\, " The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile." So let no one bo ast of men. For all things are yours\, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas o r the world or life or death or the present or the future\, all are yours\ ; and you are Christ's\; and Christ is God's.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 1 3:36-43 \nAt that time\, as Jesus went into the house\, his disciples cam e to him\, saying\, "Explain to us the parable of the weeds of the field." He answered\, "He who sows the good seed is the Son of man\; the field is the world\, and the good seed means the sons of the kingdom\; the weeds a re the sons of the evil one\, and the enemy who sowed them is the devil\; the harvest is the close of the age\, and the reapers are angels. Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire\, so will it be at the close o f the age. The Son of man will send his angels\, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all evildoers\, and throw them into t he furnace of fire\; there men will weep and gnash their teeth. Then the r ighteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who ha s ears to hear\, let him hear."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260709 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260710 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133087 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133088 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ 45 Holy Martyrs of Nikopolis\, Armenia DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 07/10/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 45 Holy Martyrs of Nikopolis\, Armenia\; Our Holy Father Gregory\, Bi shop of Assa\; Parthenios and Eumenios of Koudoumas\; 10\,000 Fathers mart yred in Egypt\; Apollonios the Martyr\; Deposition of the Precious Robe of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Moscow\; Righteous Father Anthony of the Kiev Ca ves\n\nStrict Fast\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's First Letter to the Cori nthians 4:5-8 \nBrethren\, do not pronounce judgment before the time\, be fore the Lord comes\, who will bring to light the things now hidden in dar kness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then every man will rec eive his commendation from God. I have applied all this to myself and Apol los for your benefit\, brethren\, that you may learn by us not to go beyon d what is written\, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one agai nst another. For who sees anything different in you? What have you that yo u did not receive? If then you received it\, why do you boast as if it wer e not a gift? Already you are filled! Already you have become rich! Withou t us you have become kings! And would that you did reign\, so that we migh t share the rule with you!\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 13:44-54 \nThe Lord said this parable\, "The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a f ield\, which a man found and covered up\; then in his joy he goes and sell s all that he has and buys that field.\n\nAgain\, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls\, who\, on finding one pearl of great value\, went and sold all that he had and bought it.\n\nAgain\, the kingdom of heaven is like a net which was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind\; when it was full\, men drew it ashore and sat down a nd sorted the good into vessels but threw away the bad. So it will be at t he close of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from t he righteous\, and throw them into the furnace of fire\; there men will we ep and gnash their teeth.\n\nHave you understood all this?" They said to h im\, "Yes." And he said to them\, "Therefore every scribe who has been tra ined for the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old." And when Jesus had finished these parables\, he went away from there\, and coming to his own country he taug ht them in their synagogue.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260710 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260711 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133088 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133089 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Euphemia the Great Martyr DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 07/11/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Euphemia the Great Martyr\; The All-Praised Olga\, Equal-to-the-Apost les\, Princess of Kiev\; Nektarios the New Martyr\; Sophrony the Athonite of Essex\; Nicodemos the New Martyr of Mt. Athos\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: Mark 5:24-34 \nAt that time\, a great crowd followed Jesus and thronged about him. And there was a woman who had had a flow of blood for twelve ye ars\, and who had suffered much under many physicians\, and had spent all that she had\, and was no better but rather grew worse. She had heard the reports about Jesus\, and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. For she said\, "If I touch even his garments\, I shall be made we ll." And immediately the hemorrhage ceased\; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. And Jesus\, perceiving in himself that pow er had gone forth from him\, immediately turned about in the crowd\, and s aid\, "Who touched my garments?" And his disciples said to him\, "You see the crowd pressing around you\, and yet you say\, 'Who touched me?'" And h e looked around to see who had done it. But the woman\, knowing what had b een done to her\, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him\, an d told him the whole truth. And he said to her\, "Daughter\, your faith ha s made you well\; go in peace\, and be healed of your disease."\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 6:1-10 \nBrethren\, working together with him\, we entreat you not to accept the grace of God in vain. For he says\, "At the acceptable time I have listened to you\, a nd helped you on the day of salvation." Behold\, now is the acceptable tim e\; behold\, now is the day of salvation. We put no obstacle in any one's way\, so that no fault may be found with our ministry\, but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: through great endurance\, in affli ctions\, hardships\, calamities\, beatings\, imprisonments\, tumults\, lab ors\, watching\, hunger\; by purity\, knowledge\, forbearance\, kindness\, the Holy Spirit\, genuine love\, truthful speech\, and the power of God\; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left\; i n honor and dishonor\, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as im postors\, and yet are true\; as unknown\, and yet well known\; as dying\, and behold we live\; as punished\, and yet not killed\; as sorrowful\, yet always rejoicing\; as poor\, yet making many rich\; as having nothing\, a nd yet possessing everything.\n\nGospel Reading: Luke 7:36-50 \nAt that t ime\, one of the Pharisees asked Jesus to eat with him\, and he went into the Pharisee's house\, and took his place at table. And behold\, a woman o f the city\, who was a sinner\, when she learned that he was at table in t he Pharisee's house\, brought an alabaster flask of ointment\, and standin g behind him at his feet\, weeping\, she began to wet his feet with her te ars\, and wiped them with the hair of her head\, and kissed his feet\, and anointed them with the ointment. Now when the Pharisee who had invited hi m saw it\, he said to himself\, "If this man were a prophet\, he would hav e known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him\, for she i s a sinner." And Jesus answering said to him\, "Simon\, I have something t o say to you." And he answered\, "What is it\, Teacher?" "A certain credit or had two debtors\; one owed five hundred denarii\, and the other fifty. When they could not pay\, he forgave them both. Now which of them will lov e him more?" Simon answered\, "The one\, I suppose\, to whom he forgave mo re." And he said to him\, "You have judged rightly." Then turning toward t he woman he said to Simon\, "Do you see this woman? I entered your house\, you gave me no water for my feet\, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. You gave me no kiss\, but from the time I c ame in she has not ceased to kiss my feet. You did not anoint my head with oil\, but she has anointed my feet with ointment. Therefore I tell you\, her sins\, which are many\, are forgiven\, for she loved much\; but he who is forgiven little\, loves little." And he said to her\, "Your sins are f orgiven." Then those who were at table with him began to say among themsel ves\, "Who is this\, who even forgives sins?" And he said to the woman\, " Your faith has saved you\; go in peace."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260711 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260712 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133089 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133091 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: 6th Sunday of Matthew DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 07/12/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 6th Sunday of Matthew\; Proclus &\; Hilary the Martyrs of Ancyra\; Our Holy Father Michael of Maleinus\; Gerasimos of Byzantium and Akakios the young ascetic\; Paisios the Athonite\; Veronica\, the woman with the i ssue of blood who was healed by Jesus\; Andre the Commander &\; his Com panion Martyrs\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: Luke 24:36-53 \nAt that time\, h aving risen from the dead\, Jesus went up and stood among His disciples an d said to them\, "Peace be with you." But they were startled and frightene d\, and supposed that they saw a spirit. And He said to them\, "Why are yo u troubled\, and why do questionings rise in your hearts? See My hands and My feet\, that it is I Myself\; handle Me\, and see\; for a spirit has no t flesh and bones as you see that I have." And when He had said this\, He showed them His hands and His feet. And while they still disbelieved for j oy\, and wondered\, He said to them\, "Have you anything here to eat?" The y gave Him a piece of broiled fish \\[and some honeycomb\\]\, and He took it and ate before them. Then He said to them\, "These are My words which I spoke to you\, while I was still with you\, that everything written about Me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled. " Then He opened their minds to understand the scriptures\, and said to th em\, "Thus it is written\, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead\, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins shoul d be preached in His name in all nations\, beginning from Jerusalem. You a re witnesses of these things. And behold\, I send the promise of My Father upon you\; but stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high." Then He led them out as far as Bethany\, and lifting up His hands\, He blessed them. While He blessed them\, He parted from them\, and was ca rried up into heaven. And they worshiped Him\, and returned to Jerusalem w ith great joy\, and were continually in the Temple blessing God.\n\nEpistl e Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 12:6-14 \nBrethren\, having gi fts that differ according to the grace given to us\, let us use them: if p rophecy\, in proportion to our faith\; if service\, in our serving\; he wh o teaches\, in his teaching\; he who exhorts\, in his exhortation\; he who contributes\, in liberality\; he who gives aid\, with zeal\; he who does acts of mercy\, with cheerfulness. Let love be genuine\; hate what is evil \, hold fast to what is good\; love one another with brotherly affection\; outdo one another in showing honor. Never flag in zeal\, be aglow with th e Spirit\, serve the Lord. Rejoice in your hope\, be patient in tribulatio n\, be constant in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the saints\, practic e hospitality. Bless those who persecute you\; bless and do not curse them .\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 9:1-8 \nAt that time\, getting into a boat J esus crossed over and came to his own city. And behold\, they brought to h im a paralytic\, lying on his bed\; and when Jesus saw their faith he said to the paralytic\, "Take heart\, my son\; your sins are forgiven." And be hold\, some of the scribes said to themselves\, "This man is blaspheming." But Jesus\, knowing their thoughts\, said\, "Why do you think evil in you r hearts? For which is easier\, to say 'Your sins are forgiven\,' or to sa y 'Rise and walk?' But that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins" he then said to the paralytic -- "Rise\, take u p your bed and go home." And he rose and went home. When the crowds saw it \, they were afraid\, and they glorified God\, who had given such authorit y to men.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260712 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260713 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133091 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133092 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Synaxis of Archangel Gabriel DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 07/13/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Synaxis of Archangel Gabriel\; Stephen of Mar Sabbas Monastery\; Holy Martyr Golinduc\; Marcian the Martyr of Iconium\; Serapion the Martyr\n\n Epistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 2:2-10 \nBrethren\, if the message declared by angels was valid and every transgression or disobe dience received a just retribution\, how shall we escape if we neglect suc h a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord\, and it was att ested to us by those who heard him\, while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distribut ed according to his own will. For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come\, of which we are speaking. It has been testified somewh ere\, "What is man that thou art mindful of him\, or the son of man\, that thou carest for him? Thou didst make him for a little while lower than th e angels\, thou hast crowned him with glory and honor\, putting everything in subjection under his feet." Now in putting everything in subjection to him\, he left nothing outside his control. As it is\, we do not yet see e verything in subjection to him. But we see Jesus\, who for a little while was made lower than the angels\, crowned with glory and honor because of t he suffering of death\, so that by the grace of God he might taste death f or every one. For it was fitting that he\, for whom and by whom all things exist\, in bringing many sons to glory\, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through suffering.\n\nGospel Reading: Luke 10:16-21 \n The Lord said to his disciples\, "He who hears you hears me\, and he who r ejects you rejects me\, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me." Th e seventy returned with joy\, saying\, "Lord\, even the demons are subject to us in your name!" And he said to them\, "I saw Satan fall like lightni ng from heaven. Behold\, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions\, and over all the power of the enemy\; and nothing shall h urt you. Nevertheless do not rejoice in this\, that the spirits are subjec t to you\; but rejoice that your names are written in heaven." In that sam e hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said\, "I thank you\, Father\, L ord of heaven and earth\, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes\; yes\, Father\, for such was your gracious will."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260713 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260714 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133092 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133093 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Aquila the Apostle among the 70 DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 07/14/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Aquila the Apostle among the 70\; Our Holy Father Joseph the Confesso r\, Archbishop of Thessalonica\; Nicodemus the Righteous of Mount Athos\; Peter the New Hieromartyr and the four New Martyrs of Melissourgeio Kissam os\; Justus the Martyr\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 16:1-16 \nBrethren\, I commend to you our sister Phoebe\, a deaconess of the church at Cenchreai\, that you may receive her in the Lord as befits the saints\, and help her in whatever she may require from you\, for she h as been a helper of many and of myself as well. Greet Prisca and Aquila\, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus\, who risked their necks for my life\, t o whom not only I but also all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks\; greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epainetos\, who was the first convert in Asia for Christ. Greet Mary\, who has worked hard am ong you. Greet Andronicos and Junias\, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners\ ; they are men of note among the apostles\, and they were in Christ before me. Greet Ampliatos\, my beloved in the Lord. Greet Urbanus\, our fellow worker in Christ\, and my beloved Stachys. Greet Apelles\, who is approved in Christ. Greet those who belong to the family of Aristobulos. Greet my kinsman Herodion. Greet those in the Lord who belong to the family of Narc issos. Greet those workers in the Lord\, Tryphaina and Tryphosa. Greet the beloved Persis\, who has worked hard in the Lord. Greet Rufus\, eminent i n the Lord\, also his mother and mine. Greet Asyncritos\, Phlegon\, Hermes \, Patrobas\, Hermas\, and the brethren who are with them. Greet Philologo s\, Julia\, Nereus and his sister\, and Olympas\, and all the saints who a re with them. Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Chri st greet you.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 14:1-13 \nAt that time\, Herod t he tetrarch heard about the fame of Jesus\; and he said to his servants\, "This is John the Baptist\; he has been raised from the dead\; that is why these powers are at work in him." For Herod had seized John and bound him and put him in prison\, for the sake of Herodias\, his brother Philip's w ife\; because John said to him\, "It is not lawful for you to have her." A nd though he wanted to put him to death\, he feared the people\, because t hey held him to be a prophet. But when Herod's birthday came\, the daughte r of Herodias danced before the company and pleased Herod\, so that he pro mised with an oath to give her whatever she might ask. Prompted by her mot her\, she said\, "Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter." And the king was sorry\; but because of his oaths and his guests he comma nded it to be given\; he sent and had John beheaded in the prison\, and hi s head was brought on a platter and given to the girl\, and she brought it to her mother. And his disciples came and took the body and buried it\; a nd they went and told Jesus. Now when Jesus heard this\, he withdrew from there in a boat to a lonely place apart. But when the crowds heard it\, th ey followed him on foot from the towns.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260714 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260715 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133093 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133095 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ The Holy Martyrs Cyricus and His Mother Julitta DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 07/15/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: The Holy Martyrs Cyricus and His Mother Julitta\; Vladimir\, Equal-to -the-Apostles of Kiev\; The Finding of the Head of St. Matrona of Chios\; Donald and his Nine Daughters\; Swithun\, Bishop of Winchester\n\nStrict F ast\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 13:11-1 4\; 14:1-5 \nBRETHREN\, when I was a child\, I spoke like a child\, I tho ught like a child\, I reasoned like a child\; when I became a man\, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly\, but then face to fac e. Now I know in part\; then I shall understand fully\, even as I have bee n fully understood. So faith\, hope\, love abide\, these three\; but the g reatest of these is love. Make love your aim\, and earnestly desire the sp iritual gifts\, especially that you may prophesy. For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God\; for no one understands him\, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit. On the other hand\, he who prophesies spea ks to men for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation. He who s peaks in a tongue edifies himself\, but he who prophesies edifies the chur ch. Now I want you all to speak in tongues\, but even more to prophesy. He who prophesies is greater than he who speaks in tongues\, unless some one interprets\, so that the church may be edified.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthe w 17:24-27\; 18:1-4 \nAt that time\, the collectors of the half-shekel ta x went up to Peter and said\, "Does not your teacher pay the tax?" He said \, "Yes." And when he came home\, Jesus spoke to him first\, saying\, "Wha t do you think\, Simon? From whom do kings of the earth take toll or tribu te? From their sons or from others?" And when he said\, "From others\," Je sus said to him\, "Then the sons are free. However\, not to give offense t o them\, go to the sea and cast a hook\, and take the first fish that come s up\, and when you open its mouth you will find a shekel\; take that and give it to them for me and for yourself."\n\nAt that time the disciples ca me to Jesus\, saying\, "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?" And calling to him a child\, he put him in the midst of them\, and said\, "Tr uly\, I say to you\, unless you turn and become like children\, you will n ever enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child\ , he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260715 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260716 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133095 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133097 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Athenogenes the Holy Martyr of Heracleopolis DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 07/16/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Athenogenes the Holy Martyr of Heracleopolis\; Julia the Virgin-marty r of Carthage\; 1\,015 Martyrs in Pisidia\; Helier the Hermit\, Martyr of Jersey\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 7:24 -35 \nBrethren\, in whatever state each was called\, there let him remain with God. Now concerning the virgins\, I have no command of the Lord\, bu t I give my opinion as one who by the Lord's mercy is trustworthy. I think that in view of the present distress it is well for a person to remain as he is. Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek marriage. But if you marry\, you do not sin\, and if a virgin marries she does not sin. Yet those who marry will have worldly t roubles\, and I would spare you that. I mean\, brethren\, the appointed ti me has grown very short\; from now on\, let those who have wives live as t hough they had none\, and those who mourn as though they were not mourning \, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing\, and those who buy as though they had no goods\, and those who deal with the world as th ough they had no dealings with it. For the form of this world is passing a way. I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious ab out the affairs of the Lord\, how to please the Lord\; but the married man is anxious about worldly affairs\, how to please his wife\, and his inter ests are divided. And the unmarried woman or girl is anxious about the aff airs of the Lord\, how to be holy in body and spirit\; but the married wom an is anxious about worldly affairs\, how to please her husband. I say thi s for your own benefit\, not to lay any restraint upon you\, but to promot e good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 15:12-21 \nAt that time\, the disciples came to Jesus an d said to him\, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they he ard this saying?" He answered\, "Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up. Let them alone\; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man\, both will fall into a pit." But Peter said to him\, "Explain the parable to us." And he said\, "Are you also sti ll without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach\, and so passes on? But what comes out of the mou th proceeds from the heart\, and this defiles a man. For out of the heart come evil thoughts\, murder\, adultery\, fornication\, theft\, false witne ss\, slander. These are what defile a man\; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man." And Jesus went away from there and withdrew to th e district of Tyre and Sidon.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260716 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260717 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133097 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133098 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 The Holy Great Martyr Marina (Margaret) DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 07/17/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: The Holy Great Martyr Marina (Margaret)\; Veronika &\; Speratos th e Martyrs\; Holy Royal Martyrs of Russia\; Kenelm\, Prince of Mercia\n\nFa st Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Galatians 3:23-29\; 4:1-5 \nBrethren\, before faith came\, we were confi ned under the law\, kept under restraint until faith should be revealed. S o that the law was our custodian until Christ came\, that we might be just ified by faith. But now that faith has come\, we are no longer under a cus todian\; for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God\, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is n either Jew nor Greek\, there is neither slave nor free\, there is neither male nor female\; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Chri st's\, then you are Abraham's offspring\, heirs according to promise. I me an that the heir\, as long as he is a child\, is no better than a slave\, though he is the owner of all the estate\; but he is under guardians and t rustees until the date set by the father. So with us\; when we were childr en\, we were slaves to the elemental spirits of the universe. But when the time had fully come\, God sent forth his Son\, born of a woman\, born und er the law\, to redeem those who were under the law\, so that we might rec eive adoption as sons.\n\nGospel Reading: Mark 5:24-34 \nAt that time\, a great crowd followed Jesus and thronged about him. And there was a woman who had had a flow of blood for twelve years\, and who had suffered much u nder many physicians\, and had spent all that she had\, and was no better but rather grew worse. She had heard the reports about Jesus\, and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. For she said\, "If I tou ch even his garments\, I shall be made well." And immediately the hemorrha ge ceased\; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. A nd Jesus\, perceiving in himself that power had gone forth from him\, imme diately turned about in the crowd\, and said\, "Who touched my garments?" And his disciples said to him\, "You see the crowd pressing around you\, a nd yet you say\, 'Who touched me?'" And he looked around to see who had do ne it. But the woman\, knowing what had been done to her\, came in fear an d trembling and fell down before him\, and told him the whole truth. And h e said to her\, "Daughter\, your faith has made you well\; go in peace\, a nd be healed of your disease."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260717 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260718 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133098 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133099 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Holy Martyr Emilian DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 07/18/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Holy Martyr Emilian\; Holy Martyrs Paul\, Thea and Valentine\; Stephe n\, Archbishop of Constantinople\; Our Holy Father John\, Archbishop of Co nstantinople\; Holy New Martyrs Elizabeth the Grand Duchess and the Novice Barbara\; Theneva of Glasgow\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 12:1-3 \nBrethren\, I appeal to you\, by the mercies of God\, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice\, holy and acceptable to God\, w hich is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world but be t ransformed by the renewal of your mind\, that you may prove what is the wi ll of God\, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace give n to me I bid every one among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think\, but think with sober judgment\, each according to the measure of faith which God has assigned him.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 1 0:37-42\, 11:1 \nThe Lord said\, "He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me\; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me\; and he who does not take his cross and follow me is no t worthy of me. He who finds his life will lose it\, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it. He who receives you receives me\, and he wh o receives me receives him who sent me. He who receives a prophet because he is a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward\, and he who receives a r ighteous man because he is a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward. And whoever gives to one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple\, truly\, I say to you\, he shall not lose his reward." And when Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples\ , he went on from there to teach and preach in their cities.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260718 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260719 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133099 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133100 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the 4th Ecumenical Council DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 07/19/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the 4th Ecumenical Council\; Macrina th e Righteous\, sister of St. Basil\; Dius\, Abbot of Antioch\; Saint Theodo re\, Bishop of Edessa\; Translation of the Holy Relics of Righteous Seraph im of Sarov\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: John 20:1-10 \nOn the first day of the week\, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early\, while it was still dark \, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. So she ran\, and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple\, the one whom Jesus loved\ , and said to them\, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb\, and we do not know where they have laid Him." Peter then came out with the other di sciple\, and they went toward the tomb. They both ran\, but the other disc iple outran Peter and reached the tomb first\; and stooping to look in\, h e saw the linen cloths lying there\, but he did not go in. Then Simon Pete r came\, following him\, and went into the tomb\; he saw the linen cloths lying and the napkin\, which had been on His head\, not lying with the lin en cloths\, but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple\, who reached the tomb first\, also went in\, and he saw and believed\; for as yet they did not know the scripture\, that He must rise from the dead. Then the disciples went back to their homes.\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul' s Letter to Titus 3:8-15 \nTitus\, my son\, the saying is sure. I desire you to insist on these things\, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to apply themselves to good deeds\; these are excellent and pr ofitable to men. But avoid stupid controversies\, genealogies\, dissension s\, and quarrels over the law\, for they are unprofitable and futile. As f or a man who is factious\, after admonishing him once or twice\, have noth ing more to do with him\, knowing that such a person is perverted and sinf ul\; he is self-condemned.\n\nWhen I send Artemas or Tychicos to you\, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis\, for I have decided to spend the win ter there. Do your best to speed Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way \; see that they lack nothing. And let our people learn to apply themselve s to good deeds\, so as to help cases of urgent need\, and not to be unfru itful.\n\nAll who are with me send greeting to you. Greet those who love u s in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 5: 14-19 \nThe Lord said to his disciples\, "You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid. Nor do men light a lamp and put it un der a bushel\, but on a stand\, and it gives light to all in the house. Le t your light so shine before men\, that they may see your good works and g ive glory to your Father who is in heaven. Think not that I have come to a bolish the law and the prophets\; I have come not to abolish them but to f ulfill them. For truly\, I say to you\, till heaven and earth pass away\, not an iota\, not a dot\, will pass from the law until all is accomplished . Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so\, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven\; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260719 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260720 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133100 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133101 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: The Glorious Prophet Elias (Elijah) DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 07/20/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: The Glorious Prophet Elias (Elijah)\; Synaxis of the Russians who wer e perfected in France: Protopresbyter Alexios Mednedkov\, Presbyter Dimitr ii Klepinin\, Mother Maria Skobtsova\, her son Yuri Skobtsov\, and Ilia Fo ndaminskii\; Mother Maria Skobtsova\, New-Martyr of France\n\nEpistle Read ing: St. James' Universal Letter 5:10-20 \nBRETHREN\, take as an example of suffering and patience the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. Behold\, we call those happy who were steadfast. You have heard of the ste adfastness of Job\, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord\, how the Lo rd is compassionate and merciful. But above all\, my brethren\, do not swe ar\, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath\, but let your ye s be yes and your no be no\, that you may not fall under condemnation. Is any one among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing p raise. Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church\, and let them pray over him\, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lor d\; and the prayer of faith will save the sick man\, and the Lord will rai se him up\; and if he has committed sins\, he will be forgiven. Therefore confess your sins to one another\, and pray for one another\, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power in its effects. Elijah was a man of like nature with ourselves and he prayed fervently tha t it might not rain\, and for three years and six months it did not rain o n the earth. Then he prayed again and the heaven gave rain\, and the earth brought forth its fruit. My brethren\, if any one among you wanders from the truth and some one brings him back\, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.Gospel Reading: Luke 4:22-30 \nAt that tim e\, the crowd wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of the mo uth of Jesus\; and they said\, "Is not this Joseph's son?" And he said to them\, "Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb\, 'Physician\, heal yo urself\; what we have heard you did at Capernaum\, do here also in your ow n country.'" And he said\, "Truly\, I say to you\, no prophet is acceptabl e in his own country. But in truth\, I tell you\, there were many widows i n Israel in the days of Elijah\, when the heaven was shut up three years a nd six months\, when there came a great famine over all the land\; and Eli jah was sent to none of them but only to Zarephath\, in the land of Sidon\ , to a woman who was a widow. And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha\; and none of them was cleansed but only Naaman the Syrian." When they heard this\, all in the synagogue were filled with wrath. And they rose up and put him out of the city\, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built\, that they might throw him down headlong. But passing through the midst of them he went away.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260720 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260721 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133101 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133102 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: John and Symeon the Fool for Christ DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 07/21/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: John and Symeon the Fool for Christ\; Parthenios\, Bishop of Arta\n\n Epistle Reading: St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 10:5-12 \nBre thren\, God was not pleased with most of the fathers\; for they were overt hrown in the wilderness. Now these things are warnings for us\, not to des ire evil as they did. Do not be idolators as some of them were\; as it is written\, "The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to dance." We must not indulge in immorality as some of them did\, and twenty-three thou sand fell in a single day. We must not put Christ to the test\, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer. Now these things happened t o them as a warning\, but they were written down for our instruction\, upo n whom the end of the ages has come. Therefore let any one who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 16:6-12 \nT he Lord said to his disciples\, "Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees." And they discussed it among themselves\, saying \, "We brought no bread." But Jesus\, aware of this\, said\, "O men of lit tle faith\, why do you discuss among yourselves the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive? Do you not remember the five loaves of the five thousand\, and how many baskets you gathered? Or the seven loaves of the four thousand\, and how many baskets you gathered? How is it that you fail to perceive that I did not speak about bread? Beware of the leaven o f the Pharisees and Sadducees." Then they understood that he did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread\, but of the teaching of the Pharise es and Sadducees.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260721 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260722 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133102 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133103 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 Mary Magdalene\, the Holy Myrrh-bearer and Equal to the Apostl es DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 07/22/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Mary Magdalene\, the Holy Myrrh-bearer and Equal to the Apostles\; Ma rkella\, the Virgin-martyr of Chios\n\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\n\n Epistle Reading: St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 9:2-12 \nBret hren\, you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. This is my defense to those who would examine me. Do we not have the right to our food and dr ink? Do we not have the right to be accompanied by a wife\, as the other a postles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas? Or is it only Barnabas an d I who have no right to refrain from working for a living? Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Who tends a flock without getting some of the milk? Do I say th is on human authority? Does not the law say the same? For it is written in the law of Moses\, "You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out th e grain." Is it for oxen that God is concerned? Does he not speak entirely for our sake? It was written for our sake\, because the plowman should pl ow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of a share in the crop. If we h ave sown spiritual good among you\, is it too much if we reap your materia l benefits? If others share this rightful claim upon you\, do not we still more? Nevertheless\, we have not made use of this right\, but we endure a nything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.\n\ nGospel Reading: Luke 8:1-3 \nAt that time Jesus went on through cities a nd villages\, preaching and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him\, and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary\, called Magdalene\, from whom seven de mons had gone out\, and Joanna\, the wife of Chuza\, Herod's steward\, and Susanna\, and many others\, who provided for him out of their means.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260722 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260723 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133103 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133104 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Phocas the Holy Martyr\, Bishop of Sinope DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 07/23/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Phocas the Holy Martyr\, Bishop of Sinope\; Ezekiel the Prophet\; Pel agia the Righteous of Tinos\; Trophimos &\; Theophilios and the 13 othe rs martyred in Lycia\; St. Anna of Levkadio\; The Icons of the Most Holy T heotokos of Pochaev\; Icon of the Mother of God\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Pa ul's First Letter to the Corinthians 10:28-33\; 11:1-8 \nBrethren\, if so meone says to you\, "This has been offered in sacrifice\," then out of con sideration for the man who informed you\, and for conscience's sake - I me an his conscience\, not yours - do not eat it. For why should my liberty b e determined by another man's scruples? If I partake with thankfulness\, w hy am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks? So\, whether yo u eat or drink\, or whatever you do\, do all to the glory of God. Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God\, just as I try to pl ease all men in everything I do\, not seeking my own advantage\, but that of many\, that they may be saved. Be imitators of me\, as I am of Christ. I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the tradi tions even as I have delivered them to you. But I want you to understand t hat the head of every man is Christ\, the head of a woman is her husband\, and the head of Christ is God. Any man who prays or prophesies with his h ead covered dishonors his head\, but any woman who prays or prophesies wit h her head unveiled dishonors her head - it is the same as if her head wer e shaven. For if a woman will not veil herself\, then she should cut off h er hair\, but if it is disgraceful for a woman to be shorn or shaven\, let her wear a veil. For a man ought not to cover his head\, since he is the image and glory of God\; but woman is the glory of man. (For man was not m ade from woman\, but woman from man.)\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 16:24-28 \nThe Lord said to his disciples\, "If any man would come after me\, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would sa ve his life will lose it\, and whoever loses his life for my sake will fin d it. For what will it profit a man\, if he gains the whole world and forf eits his life? Or what shall a man give in return for his life? For the So n of man is to come with his angels in the glory of his Father and then he will repay every man for what he has done. Truly\, I say to you\, there a re some standing here who will not taste death before they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260723 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260724 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133104 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133105 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Christina the Great Martyr of Tyre DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 07/24/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Christina the Great Martyr of Tyre\; Athenagorus the Apologist\; Bori s and Gleb\, the Passion-bearers\; Kapiton\, Himenaos and Hermogenes\, the Martyrs\; Theophilos the New Martyr of Zakynthos\n\nStrict Fast\n\nEpistl e Reading: St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 11:8-23 \nBrethren\ , man was not made from woman\, but woman from man. Neither was man create d for woman\, but woman for man. That is why a woman ought to have a veil on her head because of the angels. (Nevertheless\, in the Lord woman is no t independent of man nor man of woman\; for as woman was made from man\, s o man is now born of woman. And all things are from God.) Judge for yourse lves\; is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered? Do es not nature itself teach you that for a man to wear long hair is degradi ng to him\, but if a woman has long hair\, it is to her pride? For her hai r is given to her for a covering. If anyone is disposed to be contentious\ , we recognize no other practice\, nor do the churches of God. But in the following instructions I do not commend you\, because when you come togeth er it is not for the better but for the worse. For\, in the first place\, when you assemble as a church\, I hear that there are divisions among you\ ; and I partly believe it\, for there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized. When you meet toge ther\, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat. For in eating\, each one goes ahead with his own meal\, and one is hungry and another is drunk. Wha t! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the churc h of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Sh all I commend you in this? No\, I will not. For I have received from the L ord what I also delivered to you.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 17:10-18 \nA t that time\, the disciples asked Jesus\, "Then why do the scribes say tha t first Elijah must come?" He replied\, "Elijah does come and he is to res tore all things\; but I tell you that Elijah has already come\, and they d id not know him\, but did to him whatever they pleased. So also the Son of man will suffer at their hands." Then the disciples understood that he wa s speaking to them of John the Baptist. And when they came to the crowd\, a man came up to him and kneeling before him said\, "Lord\, have mercy on my son\, for he is an epileptic and he suffers terribly\; for often he fal ls into the fire\, and often into the water. And I brought him to your dis ciples\, and they could not heal him." And Jesus answered\, "O faithless a nd perverse generation\, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to be ar with you? Bring him here to me." And Jesus rebuked him\, and the demon came out of him\, and the boy was cured instantly.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260724 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260725 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133105 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133106 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Dormition of St. Anna\, mother of the Theotokos DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 07/25/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Dormition of St. Anna\, mother of the Theotokos\; Olympias the Deacon ess\; Eupraxia &\; Julia the Righteous of Tabenna\; Gregory Kallidis\, Metropolitan of Heraclea\; Memory of the Fifth Ecumenical Council in Const antinople (553)\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Galatians 4:2 2-27 \nBrethren\, Abraham had two sons\, one by a slave and one by a free woman. But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh\, the son of the free woman through promise. Now this is an allegory: these women a re two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai\, bearing children for slavery\; she is Hagar. Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia\; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem\, for she is in slavery with her children. But the Jeru salem above is free\, and she is our mother. For it is written\, "Rejoice\ , O barren one who does not bear\; break forth and shout\, you who are not in travail\; for the children of the desolate one are many more than the children of her that is married."\n\nGospel Reading: Luke 8:16-21 \nThe L ord said\, "No one after lighting a lamp covers it with a vessel\, or puts it under a bed\, but puts it on a stand\, that those who enter may see th e light. For nothing is hid that shall not be made manifest\, nor anything secret that shall not be known and come to light. Take heed then how you hear\; for to him who has will more be given\, and from him who has not\, even what he thinks that he has will be taken away."\n\nThen his mother an d his brothers came to him\, but they could not reach him for the crowd. A nd he was told\, "Your mother and your brothers are standing outside\, des iring to see you." But he said to them\, "My mother and my brothers are th ose who hear the word of God and do it."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260725 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260726 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133106 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133107 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: 8th Sunday of Matthew DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 07/26/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 8th Sunday of Matthew\; The Holy Hieromartyrs Hermolaus\, Hermippus\, and Hermocrates\; Paraskeve the Righteous Martyr of Rome\; Prisca the Rig hteous Martyr\; Moses the Hungarian\; Jacob Netsvetov the Enlightener of A laska\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: John 20:11-18 \nAt that time\, Mary stood weeping outside the tomb\, and as she wept she stooped to look into the t omb\, and she saw two angels in white\, sitting where the body of Jesus ha s lain\, one at the head and one at the feet. They said to her\, "Woman\, why are you weeping?" She said to them\, "Because they have taken away my Lord\, and I do not know where they have laid Him." Saying this\, she turn ed round and saw Jesus standing\, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her\, "Woman\, why are you weeping? Whom do you seek?" Suppo sing Him to be the gardener\, she said to Him\, "Sir\, if you have carried Him away\, tell me where you have laid Him\, and I will take Him away." J esus said to her\, "Mary." She turned and said to Him in Hebrew\, "Rabboni \," which means Teacher. Jesus said to her\, "Do not touch Me\, for I have not yet ascended to the Father\; but go to My brethren and say to them\, I am ascending to My Father and your Father\, to My God and your God." Mar y Magdalene went and said to the disciples\, "I have seen the Lord\," and she told them that He had said these things to her.\n\nEpistle Reading: St . Paul's Letter to the Galatians 3:23-29\; 4:1-5 \nBrethren\, before fait h came\, we were confined under the law\, kept under restraint until faith should be revealed. So that the law was our custodian until Christ came\, that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come\, we are no longer under a custodian\; for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God \, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek\, there is neither slave nor fr ee\, there is neither male nor female\; for you are all one in Christ Jesu s. And if you are Christ's\, then you are Abraham's offspring\, heirs acco rding to promise. I mean that the heir\, as long as he is a child\, is no better than a slave\, though he is the owner of all the estate\; but he is under guardians and trustees until the date set by the father. So with us \; when we were children\, we were slaves to the elemental spirits of the universe. But when the time had fully come\, God sent forth his Son\, born of a woman\, born under the law\, to redeem those who were under the law\ , so that we might receive adoption as sons.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 14 :14-22 \nAt that time\, Jesus saw a great throng\; and he had compassion on them\, and healed their sick. When it was evening\, the disciples came to him and said\, "This is a lonely place\, and the day is now over\; send the crowds away to go into the villages and buy food for themselves." Jes us said\, "They need not go away\; you give them something to eat." They s aid to him\, "We have only five loaves here and two fish." And he said\, " Bring them here to me." Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the gras s\; and taking the five loaves and the two fish he looked up to heaven\, a nd blessed\, and broke and gave the loaves to the crowds. And they all ate and were satisfied. And they took up twelve baskets full of the broken pi eces left over. And those who ate were about five thousand men\, besides w omen and children. Then he made the disciples get into the boat and go bef ore him to the other side\, while he dismissed the crowds.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260726 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260727 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133107 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2111663065 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Holy Cross Monastery Men's Ministry Visit X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Men's Ministry CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260724 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260727 CREATED:20260609T160020Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2111663065 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133108 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Panteleimon the Great Martyr & Healer DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 07/27/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Panteleimon the Great Martyr &\; Healer\; Nicholas of Novgorod the fool-for-Christ\; Anthousa the Righteous Confessor\; 853 Martyrs of Thrac e who were drowned\; Manuel the Righteous\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: Luke 2 1:12-19 \nThe Lord said to his disciples\, "Beware of men who will lay th eir hands on you and persecute you\, delivering you up to the synagogues a nd prisons\, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my nam e's sake. This will be a time for you to bear testimony. Settle it therefo re in your minds\, not to meditate beforehand how to answer\; for I will g ive you a mouth and wisdom\, which none of your adversaries will be able t o withstand or contradict. You will be delivered up even by parents and br others and kinsmen and friends\, and some of you they will put to death\; you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But not a hair of your head w ill perish. By your endurance you will gain your lives."\n\nEpistle Readin g: St. Paul's Second Letter to Timothy 2:1-10 \nTimothy\, my son\, be str ong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus\, and what you have heard from me before many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach o thers also. Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldi er on service gets entangled in civilian pursuits\, since his aim is to sa tisfy the one who enlisted him. An athlete is not crowned unless he compet es according to the rules. It is the hardworking farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops. Think over what I say\, for the Lord will gr ant you understanding in everything.\n\nRemember Jesus Christ\, risen from the dead\, descended from David\, as preached in my gospel\, the gospel f or which I am suffering and wearing fetters like a criminal. But the word of God is not fettered. Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect\, that they also may obtain salvation in Christ Jesus with its etern al glory.\n\nGospel Reading: John 15:17-27\; 16:1-2 \nThe Lord said to hi s disciples: "This I command you\, to love one another. If the world hates you\, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the w orld\, the world would love its own\; but because you are not of the world \, but I chose you out of the world\, therefore the world hates you. Remem ber the word that I said to you\, 'A servant is not greater than his maste r.' If they persecuted me\, they will persecute you\; if they kept my word \, they will keep yours also. But all this they will do to you on my accou nt\, because they do not know him who sent me. If I had not come and spoke n to them\, they would not have sin\; but now they have no excuse for thei r sin. He who hates me hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the works which no one else did\, they would not have sin\; but now they h ave seen and hated both me and my Father. It is to fulfill the word that i s written in their law\, 'They hated me without a cause.'\n\nBut when the Counselor comes\, whom I shall send to you from the Father\, even the Spir it of truth\, who proceeds from the Father\, he will bear witness to me\; and you also are witnesses\, because you have been with me from the beginn ing. I have said all this to you to keep you from falling away. They will put you out of the synagogues\; indeed\, the hour is coming when whoever k ills you will think he is offering service to God."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260727 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260728 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133108 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133109 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Prochoros\, Nicanor\, Timon\, & Parmenas the Apostles of the 70 DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 07/28/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Prochoros\, Nicanor\, Timon\, &\; Parmenas the Apostles of the 70\ ; Irene the Righteous of Chrysovalantou\; Our Righteous Father Paul of Xer opotamou\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 6:1-7 \nIn those days\, when the disciples were increasing in number\, the Hellenists murmured ag ainst the Hebrews because their widows were neglected in the daily distrib ution. And the twelve summoned the body of the disciples and said\, "it is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve table s. Therefore\, brethren\, pick out from among you seven men of good repute \, full of the Spirit and of wisdom\, whom we may appoint to this duty. Bu t we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word." And what they said pleased the whole multitude\, and they chose Stephen\, a m an full of faith and of the Holy Spirit\, and Philip\, and Prochoros\, and Nicanor\, and Timon\, and Parmenas\, and Nicolaos\, a proselyte of Antioc h. These they set before the apostles\, and they prayed and laid their han ds upon them. And the word of God increased\; and the number of the discip les multiplied greatly in Jerusalem\, and a great many of the priests were obedient to the faith.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 18:18-22\;19:1-2\; 13-1 5 \nThe Lord said to his disciples\, "Truly\, I say to you\, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven\, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say to you\, if two of you agree on ear th about anything they ask\, it will be done for them by my Father in heav en. For where two or three are gathered in my name\, there am I in the mid st of them."\n\nThen Peter came up and said to him\, "Lord\, how often sha ll my brother sin against me\, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?" Jesus said to him\, "I do not say to you seven times\, but seventy times seven."\n\nNow when Jesus had finished these sayings\, he went away from G alilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan\; and large crowd s followed him\, and he healed them there.\n\nThen children were brought t o him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked the people\; but Jesus said\, "Let the children come to me\, and do not hi nder them\; for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven." And he laid his ha nds on them and went away.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260728 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260729 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133109 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133111 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ The Holy Martyr Callinicus DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 07/29/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: The Holy Martyr Callinicus\; Theodota the Martyr and her Children\; C onstantine III\, Patriarch of Constantinople\; Pious King Theodosius the N ew\; Holy Virgin Martyr Theodota\; Seraphima the Virgin-martyr of Antioch\ ; Olaf of Norway\n\nStrict Fast\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's First Lette r to the Corinthians 13:4-13\; 14:1-5 \nBrethren\, love is patient and ki nd\; love is not jealous or boastful\; it is not arrogant or rude. Love do es not insist on its own way\; it is not irritable or resentful\; it does not rejoice at wrong\, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things\, believes all things\, hopes all things\, endures all things. Love never en ds\; as for prophecies\, they will pass away\; as for tongues\, they will cease\; as for knowledge\, it will pass away. For our knowledge is imperfe ct and our prophecy is imperfect\; but when the perfect comes\, the imperf ect will pass away. When I was a child\, I spoke like a child\, I thought like a child\, I reasoned like a child\; when I became a man\, I gave up c hildish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly\, but then face to face. No w I know in part\; then I shall understand fully\, even as I have been ful ly understood. So faith\, hope\, love abide\, these three\; but the greate st of these is love. Make love your aim\, and earnestly desire the spiritu al gifts\, especially that you may prophesy. For one who speaks in a tongu e speaks not to men but to God\; for no one understands him\, but he utter s mysteries in the Spirit. On the other hand\, he who prophesies speaks to men for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation. He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself\, but he who prophesies edifies the church. N ow I want you all to speak in tongues\, but even more to prophesy. He who prophesies is greater than he who speaks in tongues\, unless some one inte rprets\, so that the church may be edified.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 20: 1-16 \nThe Lord said this parable\, "The kingdom of heaven is like a hous eholder who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyar d. After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day\, he sent them in to his vineyard. And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace\; and to them he said\, 'You go into the vineyard too\, and whatever is right I will give you.' So they went. Going out aga in about the sixth hour and the ninth hour\, he did the same. And about th e eleventh hour he went out and found others standing\; and he said to the m\, 'Why do you stand here idle all day?' They said to him\, 'Because no o ne has hired us.' He said to them\, 'You go into the vineyard too.' And wh en evening came\, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward\, 'Call th e laborers and pay them their wages\, beginning with the last\, up to the first.' And when those hired about the eleventh hour came\, each of them r eceived a denarius. Now when the first came\, they thought they would rece ive more\; but each of them also received a denarius. And on receiving it they grumbled at the householder\, saying\, 'These last worked only one ho ur\, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the d ay and the scorching heat.' But he replied to one of them\, 'Friend\, I am doing you no wrong\; did you not agree with me for a denarius? Take what belongs to you\, and go\; I choose to give to this last as I give to you. Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or is your e ye evil because I am good?' So the last will be first\, and the first last . For many are called\, but few are chosen."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260729 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260730 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133111 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133112 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Silas\, Silvan\, Crescens\, Epenetus and Andronicus the Apostles o f the 70 DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 07/30/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Silas\, Silvan\, Crescens\, Epenetus and Andronicus the Apostles of t he 70\; Julitta of Caesaria\n\nEpistle Reading: Acts of the Apostles 15:35 -41 \nIN THOSE DAYS\, Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch\, teaching an d preaching the word of the Lord\, with many others also. And after some d ays Paul said to Barnabas\, "Come\, let us return and visit the brethren i n every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord\, and see how they a re." And Barnabas wanted to take with them John called Mark. But Paul thou ght best not to take with them one who had withdrawn from them in Pamphyli a\, and had not gone with them to the work. And there arose a sharp conten tion\, so that they separated from each other\; Barnabas took Mark with hi m and sailed away to Cyprus\, but Paul chose Silas and departed\, being co mmended by the brethren to the grace of the Lord. And he went through Syri a and Cilicia\, strengthening the churches.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 20: 17-28 \nAt that time\, as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem\, he took the t welve disciples aside\, and on the way he said to them\, "Behold\, we are going up to Jerusalem\; and the Son of man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes\, and they will condemn him to death\, and deliver him to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified\, and he will be raised on the third day."\n\nThen the mother of the sons of Zebedee came u p to him\, with her sons\, and kneeling before him she asked him for somet hing. And he said to her\, "What do you want?" She said to him\, "Command that these two sons of mine may sit\, one at your right hand and one at yo ur left\, in your kingdom." But Jesus answered\, "You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?" They said to him\, "We are able." He said to them\, "You will drink my cup\, but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to grant\, but it is for t hose for whom it has been prepared by my Father." And when the ten heard i t\, they were indignant at the two brothers. But Jesus called them to him and said\, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them\, a nd their great men exercise authority over them. It shall not be so among you\; but whoever would be great among you must be your servant\, and whoe ver would be first among you must be your slave\; even as the Son of man c ame not to be served but to serve\, and to give his life as a ransom for m any."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260730 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260731 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133112 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133113 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Forefeast of the Precious Cross DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 07/31/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Forefeast of the Precious Cross\; Dionysios the Righteous Martyr of V atopaidi\; Joseph the Righteous of Arimathea\; Eudocimus the Righteous of Cappadocia\n\nStrict Fast\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's First Letter to t he Corinthians 14:26-40 \nBRETHREN\, when you come together\, each one ha s a hymn\, a lesson\, a revelation\, a tongue\, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification. If any speak in a tongue\, let there b e only two or at most three\, and each in turn\; and let one interpret. Bu t if there is no one to interpret\, let each one of them keep silence in c hurch and speak to himself and to God. Let two or three prophets speak\, a nd let the others weigh what is said. If a revelation is made to another b y sitting by\, let the first be silent. For you can all prophesy one by on e\, so that all may learn and all be encouraged\; and the spirits of proph ets are subject to prophets. But God is not a God of confusion but of peac e. As in all the churches of the saints\, the women should keep silence in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak\, but should be subordi nate\, as even the law says. If there is anything they desire to know\, le t them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church. What! Did the word of God originate with you\, or are you the only one it has reached? If any one thinks that he is a prophet\, or spiri tual\, he should acknowledge that what I am writing to you is a command of the Lord. If any one does not recognize this\, he is not recognized. So\, my brethren\, earnestly desire to prophesy\, and do not forbid speaking i n tongues\; but all things should be done decently and in order.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 21:12-14\; 17-20 \nAt that time\, Jesus entered the tem ple of God and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple\, and he ov erturned the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of those who sold p igeons. He said to them\, "It is written\, 'My house shall be called a hou se of prayer'\; but you make it a den of robbers." And the blind and the l ame came to him in the temple\, and he healed them. And leaving them\, he went out of the city to Bethany and lodged there.\n\nIn the morning\, as h e was returning to the city\, he was hungry. And seeing a fig tree by the wayside he went to it\, and found nothing on it but leaves only. And he sa id to it\, "May no fruit ever come from you again!" And the fig tree withe red at once. When the disciples saw it they marveled\, saying\, "How did t he fig tree wither at once?"\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260731 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260801 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133113 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133114 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 The Holy Seven Maccabee Children\, Solomone Their Mother\, and Eleazar Their Teacher DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 08/01/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: The Holy Seven Maccabee Children\, Solomone Their Mother\, and Eleaza r Their Teacher\; Procession of the Precious Cross\; Timothy the Wonderwor ker\, Archbishop of Priconissus\; Elesa the Righteous-Martyr of Kythira\n\ nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 11:33-40\; 12:1-2 \nBrethren\, all the saints through faith c onquered kingdoms\, enforced justice\, received promises\, stopped the mou ths of lions\, quenched raging fire\, escaped the edge of the sword\, won strength out of weakness\, became mighty in war\, put foreign armies to fl ight. Women received their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured\, refu sing to accept release\, that they might rise again to a better life. Othe rs suffered mocking and scourging\, and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned\, they were sawn in two\, they were tempted\, they were kille d with the sword\; they went about in skins of sheep and goats\, destitute \, afflicted\, ill-treated - of whom the world was not worthy - wandering over deserts and mountains and in dens and caves of the earth. And all the se\, though well attested by their faith\, did not receive what was promis ed\, since God had foreseen something better for us\, that apart from us t hey should not be made perfect. Therefore\, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses\, let us also lay aside every weight\, and sin which clings so closely\, and let us run with perseverance the race that i s set before us\, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. \n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 10:16-22 \nThe Lord said to his disciples\, " Behold\, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves\; so be wise as se rpents and innocent as doves. Beware of men\; for they will deliver you up to councils\, and flog you in their synagogues\, and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake\, to bear testimony before them and the Gentiles. When they deliver you up\, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say\; for what you are to say will be given to y ou in that hour\; for it is not you who speak\, but the Spirit of your Fat her speaking through you. Brother will deliver up brother to death\, and t he father his child\, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death\; and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But he wh o endures to the end will be saved."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260801 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260802 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133114 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133115 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 9th Sunday of Matthew DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 08/02/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 9th Sunday of Matthew\; Translation of the Relics of Stephen the Prot omartyr\; Holy Glorious New Martyr Theodore of Dardanelles\; Phocas the Ma rtyr\; Plegmund\, Archbishop of Canterbury\n\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allow ed)\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: John 20:19-31 \nOn the evening of that day\ , the first day of the week\, the doors being shut where the disciples wer e for fear of the Jews\, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them\ , "Peace be with you." When He had said this\, He showed them His hands an d His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus sai d to them again\, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent Me\, even so I send you." And when He had said this\, He breathed on them and said to t hem\, "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any\, they are forgiven\; if you retain the sins of any\, they are retained." Now Thomas\ , one of the twelve\, called the Twin\, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him\, "We have seen the Lord." But he said to them\, "Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails\, and place my f inger in the mark of the nails\, and place my hand in His side\, I will no t believe." Eight days later\, His disciples were again in the house\, and Thomas was with them. The doors were shut\, but Jesus came and stood amon g them and said\, "Peace be with you." Then He said to Thomas\, "Put your finger here\, and see My hands\; and put out your hand\, and place it in M y side\; do not be faithless\, but believing." Thomas answered Him\, "My L ord and My God!" Jesus said to him\, "Have you believed because you have s een Me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe." Now Jesus di d many other signs in the presence of the disciples\, which are not writte n in this book\; but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ\, the Son of God\, and that believing\, you may have life in Hi s name.\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 3:9 -17 \nBrethren\, we are God's fellow workers\; you are God's field\, God' s building. According to the grace of God given to me\, like a skilled mas ter builder I laid a foundation\, and another man is building upon it. Let each man take care how he builds upon it. For no other foundation can any one lay than that which is laid\, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any one b uilds on the foundation with gold\, silver\, precious stones\, wood\, hay\ , straw - each man's work will become manifest\; for the Day will disclose it\, because it will be revealed with fire\, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If the work which any man has built on the foundation survives\, he will receive a reward. If any man's work is burn ed up\, he will suffer loss\, though he himself will be saved\, but only a s through fire. Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's S pirit dwells in you? If any one destroys God's temple\, God will destroy h im. For God's temple is holy\, and that temple you are.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 14:22-34 \nAt that time\, Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side\, while he dismissed the crowds. And after he had dismissed the crowds\, he went up into the hills by himse lf to pray. When evening came\, he was there alone\, but the boat by this time was many furlongs distant from the land\, beaten by the waves\; for t he wind was against them. And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them\, walking on the sea. But when the disciples saw him walking on the s ea\, they were terrified\, saying\, "It is a ghost!" And they cried out fo r fear. But immediately he spoke to them\, saying "Take heart\, it is I\; have no fear."\n\nAnd Peter answered him\, "Lord\, if it is you\, bid me c ome to you on the water." He said\, "Come." So Peter got out of the boat a nd walked on the water and came to Jesus\; but when he saw the wind\, he w as afraid\, and beginning to sink he cried out\, "Lord\, save me." Jesus i mmediately reached out his hand and caught him\, saying to him\, "O man of little faith\, why did you doubt?" And when they entered the boat\, the w ind ceased. And those in the boat worshiped him\, saying\, "Truly you are the Son of God." And when they had crossed over\, they came to land at Gen nesaret.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260802 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260803 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133115 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133116 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Isaacius\, Dalmatus\, & Faustus\, Ascetics of the Dalmation Monastery DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 08/03/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Isaacius\, Dalmatus\, &\; Faustus\, Ascetics of the Dalmation Mona stery\; Salome the Holy Myrrhbearer\; Theoctistus the Wonderworker\n\nStri ct Fast\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 15: 12-19 \nBrethren\, if Christ is preached as raised from the dead\, how ca n some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead\, then Christ has not been raised\; if Chri st has not been raised\, then our preaching is in vain. We are even found to be misrepresenting God\, because we testified of God that he raised Chr ist\, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. Fo r if the dead are not raised\, then Christ has not been raised. If Christ has not been raised\, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If for th is life only we have hoped in Christ\, we are of all men most to be pitied .\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 21:18-22 \nAt that time\, as Jesus was retur ning to the city\, he was hungry. And seeing a fig tree by the wayside he went to it\, and found nothing on it but leaves only. And he said to it\, "May no fruit ever come from you again!" And the fig tree withered at once . When the disciples saw it they marveled\, saying\, "How did the fig tree wither at once?" And Jesus answered them\, "Truly\, I say to you\, if you have faith and never doubt\, you will not only do what has been done to t he fig tree\, but even if you say to this mountain\, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea\,' it will be done. And whatever you ask in prayer\, you wil l receive\, if you have faith."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260803 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260804 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133116 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133117 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Seven Holy Youths of Ephesus DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 08/04/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Seven Holy Youths of Ephesus\n\nStrict Fast\n\nEpistle Reading: St. P aul's First Letter to the Corinthians 15:29-38 \nBrethren\, what do peopl e mean by being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all\, why are people baptized on their behalf? Why am I in peril every hour? I protest\, brethren\, by my pride in you which I have in Christ Je sus our Lord\, I die every day! What do I gain if\, humanly speaking\, I f ought with beasts at Ephesos? If the dead are not raised\, "Let us eat and drink\, for tomorrow we die." Do not be deceived: "Bad company ruins good morals." Come to your right mind\, and sin no more. For some have no know ledge of God. I say this to your shame. But some one will ask\, "How are t he dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?" You foolish man! Wha t you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not th e body which is to be\, but a bare kernel\, perhaps of wheat or some other grain. But God gives it a body as he has chosen\, and to each kind of see d its own body.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 21:23-27 \nAt that time\, when Jesus entered the temple\, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching\, and said\, "By what authority are you doing these things\, and who gave you this authority?" Jesus answered the m\, "I also will ask you a question\; and if you tell me the answer\, then I also will tell you by what authority I do these things. The baptism of John\, whence was it? From heaven or from men?" And they argued with one a nother\, "If we say\, 'From heaven\,' he will say to us\, 'Why then did yo u not believe him?' But if we say\, 'From men\,' we are afraid of the mult itude\; for all hold that John was a prophet." So they answered Jesus\, "W e do not know." And he said to them\, "Neither will I tell you by what aut hority I do these things."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260804 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260805 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133117 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133118 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Forefeast of the Transfiguration of our Lord and Savior Jesu s Christ DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 08/05/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Forefeast of the Transfiguration of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ\ ; Eusignius the Martyr of Antioch\; Our Righteous Father Eugene of Aitola\ ; Euthymios\, Patriarch of Constantinople\; Christos the New Martyr of Pre vezis\; Oswald the Martyr\, King of Northumbria\n\nStrict Fast\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Peter's First Universal Letter 1:1-25\; 2:1-10 \nPeter\, an apostle of Jesus Christ\, to the exiles of the Dispersion in Pontos\, Gala tia\, Cappadocia\, Asia\, and Bithynia\, chosen and destined by God the Fa ther and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sp rinkling with his blood:\n\nMay grace and peace be multiplied to you. Bles sed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have been born anew to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Chr ist from the dead\, and to an inheritance which is imperishable\, undefile d\, and unfading\, kept in heaven for you\, who by God's power are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In t his you rejoice\, though now for a little while you may have to suffer var ious trials\, so that the genuineness of your faith\, more precious than g old which though perishable is tested by fire\, may redound to praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Without having known hi m you love him\; though you do not now see him you believe in him and rejo ice with unutterable and exalted joy. As the outcome of your faith you obt ain the salvation of your souls.\n\nThe prophets who prophesied of the gra ce that was to be yours searched and inquired about this salvation\; they inquired what person or time was indicated by the Spirit of Christ within them when predicting the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glory. It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you\, in t he things which have now been announced to you by those who preached the g ood news to you through the Holy Spirit sent from heaven\, things into whi ch angels long to look.\n\nTherefore gird up your minds\, be sober\, set y our hope fully upon the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of J esus Christ. As obedient children\, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance\, but as he who called you is holy\, be holy yourse lves in all your conduct\; since it is written\, "You shall be holy\, for I am holy." And if you invoke as Father him who judges each one impartiall y according to his deeds\, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the tim e of your exile. You know that you were ransomed from the futile ways inhe rited from your fathers\, not with perishable things such as silver or gol d\, but with the precious blood of Christ\, like that of a lamb without bl emish or spot. He was destined before the foundation of the world but was made manifest at the end of the times for your sake. Through him you have confidence in God\, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory\, so t hat your faith and hope are in God.\n\nHaving purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere love of the brethren\, love one anoth er earnestly from the heart. You have been born anew\, not of perishable s eed but of imperishable\, through the living and abiding word of God\; for "All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers\, and the flower falls\, but the word of the Lord abides for ever." That word is the good news which was preached to you.\n\nSo put aw ay all malice and all guile and insincerity and envy and all slander. Like newborn babes\, long for the pure spiritual milk\, that by it you may gro w up to salvation\; for you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.\n\nCome to him\, to that living stone\, rejected by men but in God's sight chosen and precious\; and like living stones be yourselves built into a spiritual house\, to be a holy priesthood\, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptabl e to God through Jesus Christ. For it stands in scripture: “Behold\, I a m laying in Zion a stone\, a cornerstone chosen and precious\, and he who believes in him will not be put to shame.” To you therefore who believe\ , he is precious\, but for those who do not believe\, “The very stone wh ich the builders rejected has become the head of the corner\,” and “A stone that will make men stumble\, a rock that will make them fall”\; fo r they stumble because they disobey the word\, as they were destined to do . But you are a chosen race\, a royal priesthood\, a holy nation\, God’s own people\, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called y ou out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were no people but n ow you are God’s people\; once you had not received mercy but now you ha ve received mercy.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 21:28-32 \nThe Lord said th is parable\, "A man had two sons\; and he went to the first and said\, 'So n\, go and work in the vineyard today.' And he answered\, 'I will not'\; b ut afterward he repented and went. And he went to the second and said the same\; and he answered\, 'I go\, sir\,' but did not go. Which of the two d id the will of his father?" They said\, "The first." Jesus said to them\, "Truly\, I say to you\, the tax collectors and the harlots go into the kin gdom of God before you. For John came to you in the way of righteousness\, and you did not believe him\, but the tax collectors and the harlots beli eved him and even when you saw it\, you did not afterward repent and belie ve him."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260805 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260806 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133118 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133119 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🐟 Transfiguration of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 08/06/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Transfiguration of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ\n\nFast Day (Fish Allowed)\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: Luke 9:28-36 \nAt that time\, Jesus t ook with him Peter and John and James\, and went up on the mountain to pra y. And as he was praying\, the appearance of his countenance was altered\, and his raiment became dazzling white. And behold\, two men talked with h im\, Moses and Elijah\, who appeared in glory and spoke of his departure\, which he was to accomplish at Jerusalem. Now Peter and those who were wit h him were heavy with sleep\, and when they wakened they saw his glory and the two men who stood with him. And as the men were parting from him\, Pe ter said to Jesus\, "Master\, it is well that we are here\; let us make th ree booths\, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah" - not knowi ng what he said. As he said this\, a cloud came and overshadowed them\; an d they were afraid as they entered the cloud. And a voice came out of the cloud\, saying\, "This is my Son\, my Beloved\; listen to him!" And when t he voice had spoken\, Jesus was found alone. And they kept silence and tol d no one in those days anything of what they had seen.\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Peter's Second Universal Letter 1:10-19 \nBRETHREN\, be more zealous to confirm your call and election\, for if you do this you will never fal l\; so there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.\n\nTherefore I intend always to remind you of these things\, though you know them and are established i n the truth that you have. I think it right\, as long as I am in this body \, to arouse you by way of reminder\, since I know that the putting off of my body will be soon\, as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me. And I will see to it that after my departure you may be able at any time to recall these things.\n\nFor we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made know n to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ\, but we were eyewi tnesses of his majesty. For when he received honor and glory from God the Father and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory\, "This is my beloved Son\, with whom I am well pleased\," we heard this voice borne fro m heaven\, for we were with him on the holy mountain. And we have the prop hetic word made more sure. You will do well to pay attention to this as to a lamp shining in a dark place\, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 17:1-9 \nAt that time\, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John his brother\, and led them u p a high mountain apart. And he was transfigured before them\, and his fac e shone like the sun\, and his garments became white as light. And behold\ , there appeared to them Moses and Elijah\, talking with him. And Peter sa id to Jesus\, "Lord\, it is well that we are here\; if you wish\, I will m ake three booths here\, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah." He was still speaking\, when lo\, a bright cloud overshadowed them\, and a voice from the cloud said\, "This is my beloved Son\, with whom I am wel l pleased\; listen to him." When the disciples heard this\, they fell on t heir faces\, and were filled with awe. But Jesus came and touched them\, s aying\, "Rise\, and have no fear." And when they lifted up their eyes\, th ey saw no one but Jesus only. And as they were coming down the mountain\, Jesus commanded them\, "Tell no one the vision\, until the Son of man is r aised from the dead."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260806 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260807 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133119 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133120 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Afterfeast of the Transfiguration of our Lord and Savior Jes us Christ DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 08/07/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Afterfeast of the Transfiguration of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ \; Sixtus of Athens\, Bishop of Rome\; The Holy Righteous Martyr Dometius\ ; Our Holy Father Nicanorus the Wonderworker\; Theodosius the New\; Joseph Gerontogiannis of Lithines Sitia\; Sozon of Nicomedea\; The Holy Ten Thou sand Ascetics of Thebes\; Narcissus the Hieromartyr of Jerusalem\n\nStrict Fast\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 1:12 -20 \nBrethren\, our boast is this\, the testimony of our conscience that we have behaved in the world\, and still more toward you\, with holiness and godly sincerity\, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God. For w e write you nothing but what you can read and understand\; I hope you will understand fully\, as you have understood in part\, that you can be proud of us as we can be of you\, on the day of the Lord Jesus.\n\nBecause I wa s sure of this\, I wanted to come to you first\, so that you might have a double favor\; I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia\, and to come back to you from Macedonia and have you send me on my way to Judea. Was I vacillating when I wanted to do this? Do I make my plans like a worldly ma n\, ready to say Yes and No at once? For the Son of God\, Jesus Christ\, w hom we preached among you\, Silvanus and Timothy and I\, was not Yes and N o\; but in him it is always Yes. For all the promises of God find their Ye s in him. That is why we utter the Amen through him\, to the glory of God. \n\nGospel Reading: Mark 9:2-9 \nAt that time\, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John\, and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves\ ; and he was transfigured before them\, and his garments became glistening \, intensely white\, as no fuller on earth could bleach them. And there ap peared to them Elijah with Moses\; and they were talking to Jesus. And Pet er said to Jesus\, "Master\, it is well that we are here\; let us make thr ee booths\, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah." For he did not know what to say\, for they were exceedingly afraid. And a cloud overs hadowed them\, and a voice came out of the cloud\, "This is my beloved son \; listen to him." And suddenly\, looking around they no longer saw any on e with them but Jesus only. And as they were coming down the mountain he c harged them to tell no one what they had seen\, until the Son of man shoul d have risen from the dead.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260807 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260808 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133120 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133123 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 Emilian the Confessor & Bishop of Cyzikos DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 08/08/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Emilian the Confessor &\; Bishop of Cyzikos\; Our Holy Father Myro nus the Wonderworker\, Bishop of Crete\; Holy New Martyrs Triantaphillus o f Zagoras and Anastasius of Thessolonica\; Gregory of Sinai and Mount Atho s\; Kallinikos\, Metropolitan of Edessa and Pella\; Afterfeast of the Tran sfiguration of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ\; Anastatios the Martyr fr om Bulgaria\n\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Pau l's Letter to the Romans 15:30-33 \nBrethren\, I appeal to you\, by our L ord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit\, to strive together with m e in your prayers to God on my behalf\, that I may be delivered from the u nbelievers in Judea\, and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints\, so that by God's will I may come to you with joy and be re freshed in your company. The God of peace be with you all. Amen.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 17:24-27\; 18:1-4 \nAt that time\, the collectors of th e half-shekel tax went up to Peter and said\, "Does not your teacher pay t he tax?" He said\, "Yes." And when he came home\, Jesus spoke to him first \, saying\, "What do you think\, Simon? From whom do kings of the earth ta ke toll or tribute? From their sons or from others?" And when he said\, "F rom others\," Jesus said to him\, "Then the sons are free. However\, not t o give offense to them\, go to the sea and cast a hook\, and take the firs t fish that comes up\, and when you open its mouth you will find a shekel\ ; take that and give it to them for me and for yourself."\n\nAt that time the disciples came to Jesus\, saying\, "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?" And calling to him a child\, he put him in the midst of them\ , and said\, "Truly\, I say to you\, unless you turn and become like child ren\, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child\, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260808 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260809 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133123 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133125 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 10th Sunday of Matthew DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 08/09/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 10th Sunday of Matthew\; The Holy Apostle Matthias \; Constantine\, P atriarch of Constantinople\; Euthymios the Hieromartyr\, Metropolitan of R hodes\; Afterfeast of the Transfiguration of our Lord and Savior Jesus Chr ist\; Anthony the Martyr of Alexandria\n\nFast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\ n\nMatins Gospel Reading: John 21:1-14 \nAt that time\, Jesus revealed Hi mself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias\; and He revealed Hims elf in this way. Simon Peter\, Thomas\, called the Twin\, Nathanael of Can a in Galilee\, the sons of Zebedee\, and two others of His disciples were together. Simon Peter said to them\, "I am going fishing." They said to hi m\, "We will go with you." They went out and got into the boat\, but that night they caught nothing. Just as day was breaking\, Jesus stood on the b each\, yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to the m\, "Children\, have you any fish?" They answered him\, "No." He said to t hem\, "Cast the net on the right side of the boat\, and you will find some ." So they cast it\, and now they were not able to haul it in\, for the qu antity of fish. That disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter\, "It is the Lord!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord\, he put on his clothes \, for he was stripped for work\, and sprang into the sea. But the other d isciples came in the boat\, dragging the net full of fish\, for they were not far from the land\, but about a hundred yards off. When they got out o n land\, they saw a charcoal fire there with fish lying on it\, and bread. Jesus said to them\, "Bring some of the fish that you have just caught." So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore\, full of large fish\ , a hundred and fifty-three of them\; and although there were so many\, th e net was not torn. Jesus said to them\, "Come and have breakfast." Now no ne of the disciples dared ask Him\, "Who are you?" They knew it was the Lo rd. Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them\, and so with the fi sh. This was now the third time that Jesus was revealed to the disciples a fter He was raised from the dead..\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's First Le tter to the Corinthians 4:9-16 \nBrethren\, God has exhibited us apostles as last of all\, like men sentenced to death\; because we have become a s pectacle to the world\, to angels and to men. We are fools for Christ's sa ke\, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak\, but you are strong. You are held in honor\, but we in disrepute. To the present hour we hunger and th irst\, we are ill-clad and buffeted and homeless\, and we labor\, working with our own hands. When reviled\, we bless\; when persecuted\, we endure\ ; when slandered\, we try to conciliate\; we have become\, and are now\, a s the refuse of the world\, the off-scouring of all things. I do not write this to make you ashamed\, but to admonish you as my beloved children. Fo r though you have countless guides in Christ\, you do not have many father s. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. I urge you \, then\, be imitators of me.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 17:14-23 \nAt th at time\, a man came up to Jesus and kneeling before him said\, "Lord\, ha ve mercy on my son\, for he is an epileptic and he suffers terribly\; for often he falls into the fire\, and often into the water. And I brought him to your disciples\, and they could not heal him." And Jesus answered\, "O faithless and perverse generation\, how long am I to be with you? How lon g am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me." And Jesus rebuked him\, an d the demon came out of him\, and the boy was cured instantly. Then the di sciples came to Jesus privately and said\, "Why could we not cast it out?" He said to them\, "Because of your little faith. For truly I say to you\, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed\, you will say to this mount ain\, 'Move hence to yonder place\,' and it will move\; and nothing will b e impossible to you. But this kind never comes out except by prayer and fa sting." As they were gathering in Galilee\, Jesus said to them\, "The Son of man is to be delivered into the hands of men\, and they will kill him\, and he will be raised on the third day."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260809 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260810 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133125 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133127 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Laurence the Holy Martyr & Archdeacon of Rome DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 08/10/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Laurence the Holy Martyr &\; Archdeacon of Rome\; Hippolytus the M artyr of Rome\; Afterfeast of the Transfiguration of our Lord and Savior J esus Christ\n\nStrict Fast\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 2:3-15 \nBrethren\, my joy is the joy of you all. For I wrote you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears\ , not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.\n\nBut if any one has caused pain\, he has caused it not to me\, but in some measure - not to put it too severely - to you all. For such a one this punishment by the majority is enough\; so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him\, for he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow . So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him. For this is why I wrote\, th at I might test you and know whether you are obedient in everything. Any o ne whom you forgive\, I also forgive. What I have forgiven\, if I have for given anything\, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ\, to kee p Satan from gaining the advantage over us\; for we are not ignorant of hi s designs.\n\nWhen I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ\, a door was opened for me in the Lord\; but my mind could not rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took leave of them and went on to Ma cedonia.\n\nBut thanks be to God\, who in Christ always leads us in triump h\, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywher e. For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved a nd among those who are perishing.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 23:13-22 \nT he Lord said to the Jews who had come to him\, "Woe to you\, scribes and P harisees\, hypocrites! for you devour widows' houses and for a pretense yo u make long prayers\; therefore you will receive the greater condemnation. But woe to you\, scribes and Pharisees\, hypocrites! because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men\; for you neither enter yourselves\, nor al low those who would enter to go in. Woe to you\, scribes and Pharisees\, h ypocrites! for you traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte\, and when he becomes a proselyte\, you make him twice as much a child of hell a s yourselves. Woe to you\, blind guides\, who say\, 'If any one swears by the temple\, it is nothing\; but if any one swears by the gold of the temp le\, he is bound by his oath.' You blind fools! For which is greater\, the gold or the temple that has made the gold sacred? And you say\, 'If any o ne swears by the altar\, it is nothing\; but if any one swears by the gift that is on the altar\, he is bound by his oath.' You blind men! For which is greater\, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred? So he who swears by the altar\, swears by it and by everything on it\; and he who sw ears by the temple\, swears by it and by him who dwells in it\; and he who swears by heaven\, swears by the throne of God and by him who sits upon i t."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260810 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260811 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133127 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133128 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Euplus the Holy Martyr & Archdeacon of Catania DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 08/11/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Euplus the Holy Martyr &\; Archdeacon of Catania\; Our Holy Father Niphonus\, Patriarch of Constantinople\; Commemoration of St. Spyridon's Miracle in Corfu against the Turkish invasion of 1716\; Afterfeast of the Transfiguration of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ\; Blane\, Bishop of Bu te\n\nStrict Fast\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Second Letter to the Cori nthians 2:14-17\; 3:1-3 \nBrethren\, thanks be to God\, who in Christ alw ays leads us in triumph\, and through us spreads the fragrance of the know ledge of him everywhere. For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing\, to one a fragranc e from death to death\, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things? For we are not\, like so many\, peddlers of God's word\; but as men of sincerity\, as commissioned by God\, in the sig ht of God we speak in Christ.\n\nAre we beginning to commend ourselves aga in? Or do we need\, as some do\, letters of recommendation\, to you\, or f rom you? You yourselves are our letter of recommendation\, written on our hearts\, to be known and read by all men\; and you show that you are a let ter from Christ delivered by us\, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God\, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human heart s.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 23:23-28 \nThe Lord said to the Jews who ha d come to him\, "Woe to you\, scribes and Pharisees\, hypocrites! for you tithe mint and dill and cumin\, and have neglected the weightier matters o f the law\, justice and mercy and faith\; these you ought to have done\, w ithout neglecting the others. You blind guides\, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!\n\n"Woe to you\, scribes and Pharisees\, hypocrites! f or you cleanse the outside of the cup and of the plate\, but inside they a re full of extortion and rapacity. You blind Pharisee! first cleanse the i nside of the cup and of the plate\, that the outside also may be clean.\n\ n"Woe to you\, scribes and Pharisees\, hypocrites! for you are like whitew ashed tombs\, which outwardly appear beautiful\, but within they are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righ teous to men\, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260811 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260812 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133128 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133129 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ The Holy Martyrs Photius and Anicetus of Nicomedia DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 08/12/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: The Holy Martyrs Photius and Anicetus of Nicomedia\; Sergios\, Stephe n and Kastor\; Palamon\, Elder of Saint Pachomius the Great\; Soldier-mart yrs of Crete\; Afterfeast of the Transfiguration of our Lord and Savior Je sus Christ\n\nStrict Fast\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 3:4-11 \nBrethren\, such is the confidence that we have t hrough Christ toward God. Not that we are competent of ourselves to claim anything as coming from us\; our competence is from God\, who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant\, not in a written code but in the Spirit\; for the written code kills\, but the Spirit gives life.\n\nN ow if the dispensation of death\, carved in letters on stone\, came with s uch splendor that the Israelites could not look at Moses' face because of its brightness\, fading as this was\, will not the dispensation of the Spi rit be attended with greater splendor? For if there was splendor in the di spensation of condemnation\, the dispensation of righteousness must far ex ceed it in splendor. Indeed\, in this case\, what once had splendor has co me to have no splendor at all\, because of the splendor that surpasses it. For if what faded away came with splendor\, what is permanent must have m uch more splendor.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 23:29-39 \nThe Lord said to the Jews who had come to him\, "Woe to you\, scribes and Pharisees\, hypo crites! for you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous\, saying\, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers\, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets .' Thus you witness against yourselves\, that you are sons of those who mu rdered the prophets. Fill up\, then\, the measure of your fathers. You ser pents\, you brood of vipers\, how are you to escape being sentenced to hel l? Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes\, some of whom y ou will kill and crucify\, and some you will scourge in your synagogues an d persecute from town to town\, that upon you may come all the righteous b lood shed on earth\, from the blood of innocent Abel to the blood of Zacha rias the son of Barachiah\, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and th e altar. Truly\, I say to you\, all this will come upon this generation.\n \nO Jerusalem\, Jerusalem\, killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings\, and you would not! Behold\, your h ouse is forsaken and desolate. For I tell you\, you will not see me again\ , until you say\, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'"\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260812 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260813 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133129 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133131 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Apodosis of the Transfiguration DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 08/13/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Apodosis of the Transfiguration\; Maximus the Confessor\; Our Righteo us Fathers Sergius\, Stephanus\, Castor and Palamonus\; Dorotheus\, Abba o f Gaza\; Tikhon of Zadonsk\n\nStrict Fast\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's S econd Letter to the Corinthians 4:1-12 \nBrethren\, having this ministry as we have received mercy\, we do not lose heart. We have renounced disgra ceful\, underhanded ways\; we refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word\, but by the open statement of truth we would commend ourselve s to every man's conscience in the sight of God. And even if our gospel is veiled\, it is veiled only to those who are perishing. In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers\, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ\, who is the li keness of God. For what we preach is not ourselves\, but Jesus Christ as L ord\, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. For it is the God w ho said\, "Let light shine out of darkness\," who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Chri st.\n\nBut we have this treasure in earthen vessels\, to show that the tra nscendent power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every wa y\, but not crushed\; perplexed\, but not driven to despair\; persecuted\, but not forsaken\; struck down\, but not destroyed\; always carrying in t he body the death of Jesus\, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifes ted in our bodies. For while we live we are always being given up to death for Jesus' sake\, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mort al flesh. So death is at work in us\, but life in you.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 24:13-28 \nThe Lord said to his disciples\, "He who endures to th e end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throu ghout the whole world\, as a testimony to all nations\; and then the end w ill come.\n\n"So when you see the desolating sacrilege spoken of by the pr ophet Daniel\, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand)\, th en let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains\; let him who is on th e housetop not go down to take what is in his house\; and let him who is i n the field not turn back to take his mantle. And alas for those who are w ith child and for those who give suck in those days! Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a sabbath. For then there will be great tribul ation\, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now\, n o\, and never will be. And if those days had not been shortened\, no human being would be saved\; but for the sake of the elect those days will be s hortened. Then if any one says to you\, 'Lo\, here is the Christ!' or 'The re he is!' do not believe it. For false Christs and false prophets will ar ise and show great signs and wonders\, so as to lead astray\, if possible\ , even the elect. Lo\, I have told you beforehand. So\, if they say to you \, 'Lo\, he is in the wilderness\,' do not go out\; if they say\, 'Lo\, he is in the inner rooms\,' do not believe it. For as the lightning comes fr om the east and shines as far as the west\, so will be the coming of the S on of man. Wherever the body is\, there the eagles will be gathered togeth er."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260813 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260814 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133131 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133132 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Forefeast of the Dormition of our Most Holy Lady the Theotok os and Ever Virgin Mary DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 08/14/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Forefeast of the Dormition of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ev er Virgin Mary\; The Holy Prophet Michaias (Micah)\; Holy Hieromartyr Marc ellus\, Bishop of Apameia\; Holy New Martyr Symeon of Trapezoundos (1653)\ n\nStrict Fast\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinth ians 4:13-18 \nBrethren\, since we have the same spirit of faith as he ha d who wrote\, "I believed\, and so I spoke\," we too believe\, and so we s peak\, knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with J esus and bring us with you into his presence. For it is all for your sake\ , so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksg iving\, to the glory of God.\n\nSo we do not lose heart. Though our outer nature is wasting away\, our inner nature is being renewed every day. For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison\, because we look not to the things that are s een but to the things that are unseen\; for the things that are seen are t ransient\, but the things that are unseen are eternal.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 24:27-33\, 42-51 \nThe Lord said to his disciples\, "As the light ning comes from the east and shines as far as the west\, so will be the co ming of the Son of man. Wherever the body is\, there the eagles will be ga thered together.\n\n"Immediately after the tribulation of those days the s un will be darkened\, and the moon will not give its light\, and the stars will fall from heaven\, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken\; th en will appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven\, and then all the tri bes of the earth will mourn\, and they will see the Son of man coming on t he clouds of heaven with power and great glory\; and he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call\, and they will gather his elect from the four winds\, from one end of heaven to the other.\n\n"From the fig tree le arn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts forth its le aves\, you know that summer is near. So also\, when you see all these thin gs\, you know that he is near\, at the very gates.\n\n"Watch therefore\, f or you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But know this\, that i f the householder had known in what part of the night the thief was coming \, he would have watched and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready\; for the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect.\n\n"Who then is the faithful and wise servant\, whom h is master has set over his household\, to give them their food at the prop er time? Blessed is that servant whom his master when he comes will find s o doing. Truly\, I say to you\, he will set him over all his possessions. But if that wicked servant says to himself\, 'My master is delayed\,' and begins to beat his fellow servants\, and eats and drinks with the drunken\ , the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect hi m and at an hour he does not know\, and will punish him\, and put him with the hypocrites\; there men will weep and gnash their teeth."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260814 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260815 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133132 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133133 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: The Dormition of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 08/15/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: The Dormition of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mar y\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: Luke 1:39-49\, 56 \nIn those days\, Mary aros e and went with haste into the hill country\, to a city of Judah\, and she entered the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth. And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary\, the babe leaped in her womb\; and Elizabeth w as filled with the Holy Spirit and she exclaimed with a loud cry\, "Blesse d are you among women\, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! And why is this granted me\, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For behold \, when the voice of your greeting came to my ears\, the babe in my womb l eaped for joy. And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfi llment of what was spoken to her from the Lord."\n\nAnd Mary said\, "My so ul magnifies the Lord\, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior\, for he h as regarded the low estate of his handmaiden. For behold\, henceforth all generations will call me blessed\; for he who is mighty has done great thi ngs for me\, and holy is his name." And Mary remained with her about three months\, and returned to her home.\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Philippians 2:5-11 \nBrethren\, have this mind among yourselves\, which is yours in Christ Jesus\, who\, though he was in the form of God\, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped\, but emptied himsel f\, taking the form of a servant\, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto deat h\, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestow ed on him the name which is above every name\, that at the name of Jesus e very knee should bow\, in heaven and on earth and under the earth\, and ev ery tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord\, to the glory of God the Fat her.\n\nGospel Reading: Luke 10:38-42\, 11:27-28 \nAt that time\, Jesus e ntered a village\; and a woman called Martha received him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary\, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving\; and she we nt to him and said\, "Lord\, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve you alone? Tell her then to help me." But the Lord answered her\, " Martha\, Martha\, you are anxious and troubled about many things\; one thi ng is needful. Mary has chosen the good portion\, which shall not be taken away from her." As he said this\, a woman in the crowd raised her voice a nd said to him\, "Blessed is the womb that bore you\, and the breasts that you sucked!" But he said\, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!"\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260815 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260816 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133133 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133134 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: 11th Sunday of Matthew DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 08/16/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 11th Sunday of Matthew\; Translation of the Image of Our Lord and God and Savior\, Jesus Christ\; Diomedes the Physician &\; Martyr of Tarsu s\; Timothy of Euripus\, founder of the Monastery of Pentele\; Holy Monk P enteles\; Gerasimus of Cephalonia\; The Six Martyrs Dorotheos\, Sarantis\, Jacob\, Seraphim\, Demetrios and Basil who contested in Megara\; Joseph t he Hesychast\; Nicodemus the New Martyr of Meteora\; Afterfeast of the Dor mition of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary\; Manuel a nd John the New Martyrs\; Stamatios the Martyr\; Apostolos the New-Martyr\ n\nMatins Gospel Reading: John 21:14-25 \nAt that time\, Jesus revealed h imself to the disciples after he was raised from the dead. And he said to Simon Peter\, "Simon\, son of John\, do you love me more than these?" He s aid to him\, "Yes\, Lord\; you know that I love you." He said to him\, "Fe ed my lambs." A second time he said to him\, "Simon\, son of John\, do you love me?" He said to him\, "Yes\, Lord\; you know that I love you." He sa id to him\, "Tend my sheep." He said to him the third time\, "Simon\, son of John\, do you love me?" Peter was grieved because he said to him the th ird time\, "Do you love me?" And he said to him\, "Lord\, you know everyth ing\; you know that I love you." Jesus said to him\, "Feed my sheep. Truly \, truly\, I say to you\, when you were young\, you girded yourself and wa lked where you would\; but when you are old\, you will stretch out your ha nds\, and another will gird you and carry you where you do not wish to go. " (This he said to show by what death he was to glorify God.) And after th is he said to him\, "Follow me." Peter turned and saw following them the d isciple whom Jesus loved\, who had lain close to his breast at the supper and had said\, "Lord\, who is it that is going to betray you?" When Peter saw him\, he said to Jesus\, "Lord\, what about this man?" Jesus said to h im\, "If it is my will that he remain until I come\, what is that to you? Follow me!" The saying spread abroad among the brethren that this disciple was not to die\; yet Jesus did not say to him that he was not to die\, bu t\, "If it is my will that he remain until I come\, what is that to you?" This is the disciple who is bearing witness to these things\, and who has written these things\; and we know that his testimony is true. But there a re also many other things which Jesus did\; were every one of them to be w ritten\, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. Amen.\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 9:2-12 \nBrethren\, you are the seal of my apostleship in th e Lord. This is my defense to those who would examine me. Do we not have t he right to our food and drink? Do we not have the right to be accompanied by a wife\, as the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas ? Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working f or a living? Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vine yard without eating any of its fruit? Who tends a flock without getting so me of the milk? Do I say this on human authority? Does not the law say the same? For it is written in the law of Moses\, "You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain." Is it for oxen that God is concerned? Does he not speak entirely for our sake? It was written for our sake\, be cause the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of a share in the crop. If we have sown spiritual good among you\, is it too m uch if we reap your material benefits? If others share this rightful claim upon you\, do not we still more? Nevertheless\, we have not made use of t his right\, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 18:23-35 \nThe Lord s aid this parable: "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wis hed to settle accounts with his servants. When he began the reckoning\, on e was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents\; and as he could n ot pay\, his lord ordered him to be sold\, with his wife and children and all that he had\, and payment to be made. So the servant fell on his knees \, imploring him\, 'Lord\, have patience with me\, and I will pay you ever ything.' And out of pity for him the lord of that servant released him and forgave him the debt. But that same servant\, as he went out\, came upon one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii\; and seizing hi m by the throat he said\, 'Pay what you owe.' So his fellow servant fell d own and besought him\, 'Have patience with me\, and I will pay you.' He re fused and went and put him in prison till he should pay the debt. When his fellow servants saw what had taken place\, they were greatly distressed\, and they went and reported to their lord all that had taken place. Then h is lord summoned him and said to him\, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you besought me\; and should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant\, as I had mercy on you?' And in anger his lord del ivered him to the torturers\, till he should pay all his debt. So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you\, if you do not forgive your b rother from your heart."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260816 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260817 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133134 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133135 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Myron the Martyr of Cyzicus DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 08/17/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Myron the Martyr of Cyzicus\; Straton\, Philip\, Eutychian\, &\; C yprian the Martyrs of Nicomedea\; Afterfeast of the Dormition of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary\; Demetrios the New\, Righteo us-Martyr of Samaria\; Eutychios\, Eutychianos and Kassiani the siblings\; Paul\, Juliana\, and those martyred with them (the executioners)\n\nEpist le Reading: St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 5:10-15 \nBrethre n\, we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ\, so that each o ne may receive good or evil\, according to what he has done in the body.\n \nTherefore\, knowing the fear of the Lord\, we persuade men\; but what we are is known to God\, and I hope it is known also to your conscience. We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to be proud of us\, so that you may be able to answer those who pride themselves on a man's position and not on his heart. For if we are beside ourselves\, it is for God\; if we are in our right mind\, it is for you. For the love of Christ controls us\, because we are convinced that one has died for all\; therefore all have died. And he died for all\, that those who live might l ive no longer for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was r aised.\n\nGospel Reading: Mark 1:9-15 \nIn those days Jesus came from Naz areth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And when he came up out of the water\, immediately he saw the heavens opened and the Spirit descending upon him like a dove\; and a voice came from heaven\, "You are my beloved Son\; with you I am well pleased." The Spirit immediately drov e him out into the wilderness. And he was in the wilderness forty days\, t empted by Satan\; and he was with the wild beasts\; and the angels ministe red to him. Now after John was arrested\, Jesus came into Galilee\, preach ing the gospel of God\, and saying\, "The time is fulfilled\, and the king dom of God is at hand\; repent\, and believe in the gospel."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260817 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260818 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133135 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133136 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Floros & Lauros the Monk-martyrs of Illyria DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 08/18/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Floros &\; Lauros the Monk-martyrs of Illyria\; Leontus the martyr \; Hermos the Martyr\; John &\; George\, Patriarchs of Constantinople\; Relics of Arsenios the Righteous of Paros\; Constantine the New Martyr of Capua\; Matthew the New Martyr of Gerakari\; Afterfeast of the Dormition of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary\n\nEpistle Readin g: St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 5:15-21 \nBrethren\, Chris t died for all\, that those who live might live no longer for themselves b ut for him who for their sake died and was raised.\n\nFrom now on\, theref ore\, we regard no one from a human point of view\; even though we once re garded Christ from a human point of view\, we regard him thus no longer. T herefore\, if any one is in Christ\, he is a new creation\; the old has pa ssed away\, behold\, the new has come. All this is from God\, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation \; that is\, God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself\, not coun ting their trespasses against them\, and entrusting to us the message of r econciliation. So we are ambassadors for Christ\, God making his appeal th rough us. We beseech you on behalf of Christ\, be reconciled to God. For o ur sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin\, so that in him we might be come the righteousness of God.\n\nGospel Reading: Mark 1:16-22 \nAt that time\, Jesus\, passing along by the Sea of Galilee\, saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net in the sea\; for they were fishermen. A nd Jesus said to them\, "Follow me and I will make you become fishers of m en." And immediately they left their nets and followed him. And going on a little farther\, he saw James the son of Zebedee and John his brother\, w ho were in their boats mending the nets. And immediately he called them\; and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants\, a nd followed him. And they went into Capernaum\; and immediately on the sab bath he entered the synagogue and taught. And they were astonished at his teaching\, for he taught them as one who had authority\, and not as the sc ribes.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260818 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260819 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133136 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133137 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Andrew the General & Martyr & his 2\,593 soldiers DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 08/19/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Andrew the General &\; Martyr &\; his 2\,593 soldiers\; Holy Ma rtyrs Timothy\, Agapius and Thecla\; Theophanes the New Wonderworker of Ma cedonia\; Afterfeast of the Dormition of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary\; Eutychianos and Strategios the Martyrs\n\nStrict Fa st\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 6:11-16 \nBrethren\, our mouth is open to you\, Corinthians\; our heart is wide. You are not restricted by us\, but you are restricted in your own affecti ons. In return -- I speak as to children -- widen your hearts also.\n\nDo not be mismated with unbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? W hat agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of t he living God\, as God said.\n\nGospel Reading: Mark 1:23-28 \nAt that ti me\, there was in the synagogue of the Jews a man with an unclean spirit\; and he cried out\, "What have you to do with us\, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are\, the Holy One of God." But Je sus rebuked him\, saying\, "Be silent\, and come out of him!" And the uncl ean spirit\, convulsing him and crying with a loud voice\, came out of him . And they were all amazed\, so that they questioned among themselves\, sa ying\, "What is this? A new teaching! With authority he commands even the unclean spirits\, and they obey him." And at once his fame spread everywhe re throughout all the surrounding region of Galilee.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260819 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260820 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133137 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133138 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Samuel the Prophet DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 08/20/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Samuel the Prophet\; Holy Martyr Luke of Bouleutos\; Stephen\, First King of Hungary\; Hierotheos\, Bishop of Hungary\; Oswin the Martyr\, King of Deira\; Afterfeast of the Dormition of our Most Holy Lady the Theotoko s and Ever Virgin Mary\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 7:1-10 \nBrethren\, let us cleanse ourselves from every defi lement of body and spirit\, and make holiness perfect in the fear of God.\ n\nOpen your hearts to us\; we have wronged no one\, we have corrupted no one\, we have taken advantage of no one. I do not say this to condemn you\ , for I said before that you are in our hearts\, to die together and to li ve together. I have great confidence in you\; I have great pride in you\; I am filled with comfort. With all our affliction\, I am overjoyed.\n\nFor even when we came into Macedonia\, our bodies had no rest but we were aff licted at every turn --fighting without and fear within. But God\, who com forts the downcast\, comforted us by the coming of Titus\, and not only by his coming but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you\, a s he told us of your longing\, your mourning\, your zeal for me\, so that I rejoiced still more. For even if I made you sorry with my letter\, I do not regret it (though I did regret it)\, for I see that that letter grieve d you\, though only for a while. As it is\, I rejoice\, not because you we re grieved\, but because you were grieved into repenting\; for you felt a godly grief\, so that you suffered no loss through us. For godly grief pro duces a repentance that leads to salvation and brings no regret\, but worl dly grief produces death.\n\nGospel Reading: Mark 1:29-35 \nAt that time\ , Jesus entered the house of Simon and Andrew\, with James and John. Now S imon's mother-in-law lay sick with a fever\, and immediately they told him of her. And he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up\, and the fever left her\; and she served them. That evening\, at sundown\, they bro ught to him all who were sick or possessed with demons. And the whole city was gathered together about the door. And he healed many who were sick wi th various diseases\, and cast out many demons\; and he would not permit t he demons to speak\, because they knew him. And in the morning\, a great w hile before day\, he rose and went out to a lonely place\, and there he pr ayed.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260820 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260821 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133138 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133139 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ The Holy Apostle Thaddaeus DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 08/21/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: The Holy Apostle Thaddaeus\; The Holy Martyr Bassa and Her Sons: Theo gnis\, Agapius\, and Pistus\; Athanasios Patelaros\, Patriarch of Constant inople\; Afterfeast of the Dormition of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos a nd Ever Virgin Mary\n\nStrict Fast\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Second L etter to the Corinthians 7:10-16 \nBrethren\, godly grief produces a repe ntance that leads to salvation and brings no regret\, but worldly grief pr oduces death. For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in yo u\, what eagerness to clear yourselves\, what indignation\, what alarm\, w hat longing\, what zeal\, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves guiltless in the matter. So although I wrote to you\, it was no t on account of the one who did the wrong\, nor on account of the one who suffered the wrong\, but in order that your zeal for us might be revealed to you in the sight of God.\n\nTherefore we are comforted.\n\nAnd besides our own comfort we rejoiced still more at the joy of Titus\, because his m ind has been set at rest by you all. For if I have expressed to him some p ride in you\, I was not put to shame\; but just as everything we said to y ou was true\, so our boasting before Titus has proved true. And his heart goes out all the more to you\, as he remembers the obedience of you all\, and the fear and trembling with which you received him. I rejoice\, becaus e I have perfect confidence in you.\n\nGospel Reading: Mark 3:13-21 \nAt that time\, Jesus went up on the mountain\, and called to him those whom h e desired\; and they came to him. And he appointed twelve\, to be with him \, and to be sent out to preach and have authority to cast out demons: Sim on whom he surnamed Peter\; James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James\, whom he surnamed Boanerges\, that is\, sons of thunder\; Andrew and Philip and Bartholomew\, and Matthew\, and Thomas\, and James the son of Alphaios\, and Thaddaios\, and Simon the Cananaean\, and Judas Iscario t\, who betrayed him. Then he went home\; and the crowd came together agai n\, so that they could not even eat. And when his family heard it\, they w ent out to seize him\, for people were saying\, "He is beside himself."\n\ n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260821 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260822 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133139 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133141 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: The Holy Martyr Agathonicus DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 08/22/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: The Holy Martyr Agathonicus\; Holy Martyr Anthuse\; Athanasios the Hi eromartyr &\; Bishop of Tarsus\; New Martyrs Manuel and John\; The Syna xis of the Icon of the Mother of God of Prusa\; Afterfeast of the Dormitio n of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary\n\nEpistle Read ing: St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 1:26-31\; 2:1-5 \nBrethre n\, consider your call\, not many of you were wise according to worldly st andards\, not many were powerful\, not many were of noble birth\; but God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise\, God chose what is w eak in the world to shame the strong\, God chose what is low and despised in the world\, even things that are not\, to bring to nothing things that are\, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus\, whom God made our wisdom\, our righ teousness and sanctification and redemption\; therefore\, as it is written \, "Let him who boasts\, boast of the Lord." When I came to you\, brethren \, I did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God in lofty words o r wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in much fear and trembli ng\; and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom\, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power\, that your faith might no t rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.\n\nGospel Reading: Ma tthew 20:29-34 \nAt that time\, as Jesus went out of Jericho\, a great cr owd followed him. And behold\, two blind men sitting by the roadside\, whe n they heard that Jesus was passing by\, cried out\, "Have mercy on us\, S on of David!" The crowd rebuked them\, telling them to be silent\; but the y cried out the more\, "Lord\, have mercy on us\, Son of David!" And Jesus stopped and called them\, saying\, "What do you want me to do for you?" T hey said to him\, "Lord\, let our eyes be opened." And Jesus in pity touch ed their eyes\, and immediately they received their sight and followed him .\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260822 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260823 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133141 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133142 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: 12th Sunday of Matthew DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 08/23/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 12th Sunday of Matthew\; Apodosis of the Dormition of our Most Holy L ady the Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary\; Our Holy Father Irenaeus\, Bishop of Lyons\; Lupus the Martyr\; Our Righteous Father Nicholas of Sikelion\; Our Holy Father Kallinikos\, Patriarch of Constantinople\; Haralambos of Kalyviani\; 38 Martyrs of Thrace\; Our Holy Father Irenaeus\, Bishop of Si rmium\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: Matthew 28:16-20 \nAt that time\, the ele ven disciples went to Galilee\, to the mountain to which Jesus had directe d them. And when they saw Him they worshiped Him\; but some doubted. And J esus came and said to them\, "All authority in heaven and on earth has bee n given to Me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations\, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit\, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you\; and lo\, I am with you alw ays\, to the close of the age. Amen."\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 15:1-11 \nBrethren\, I would remind you in wha t terms I preached to you the gospel\, which you received\, in which you s tand\, by which you are saved\, if you hold it fast -- unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also receiv ed\, that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures\, tha t he was buried\, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with t he scriptures\, and that he appeared to Cephas\, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time\, most of whom are still alive\, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to Jame s\, then to all the apostles. Last of all\, as to one untimely born\, he a ppeared also to me. For I am the least of the apostles\, unfit to be calle d an apostle\, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am\, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the cont rary\, I worked harder than any of them\, though it was not I\, but the gr ace of God which is with me. Whether then it was I or they\, so we preach and so you believed.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 19:16-26 \nAt that time\, a young man came up to Jesus\, kneeling and saying\, "Good Teacher\, what good deed must I do\, to have eternal life?" And he said to him\, "Why do you call me good? One there is who is good. If you would enter life\, kee p the commandments." He said to him\, "Which?" And Jesus said\, "You shall not kill\, You shall not commit adultery\, You shall not steal\, You shal l not bear false witness\, Honor your father and mother\, and You shall lo ve your neighbor as yourself." The young man said to him\, "All these I ha ve observed\; what do I still lack?" Jesus said to him\, "If you would be perfect\, go\, sell what you possess and give to the poor\, and you will h ave treasure in heaven\; and come\, follow me." When the young man heard t his he went away sorrowful\; for he had great possessions.\n\nAnd Jesus sa id to his disciples\, "Truly\, I say to you\, it will be hard for a rich m an to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you\, it is easier for a c amel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the ki ngdom of God." When the disciples heard this they were greatly astonished\ , saying\, "Who then can be saved?" But Jesus looked at them and said to t hem\, "With men this is impossible\, but with God all things are possible. "\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260823 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260824 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133142 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133143 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Eutyches the Hieromartyr & Disciple of St. John the Theologian DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 08/24/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Eutyches the Hieromartyr &\; Disciple of St. John the Theologian\; Cosmas of Aetolia\, Equal to the Apostles\; The Translation of the Relics of Dionysios of Zakynthos\, Bishop of Aegina\; The Translation of the Hol y Relics of Saint Peter\, Metropolitan of Moscow\n\nEpistle Reading: St. P aul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 8:7-15 \nBrethren\, as you excel i n everything in faith\, in utterance\, in knowledge\, in all earnestness\, and in your love for us see that you excel in this gracious work also.\n\ nI say this not as a command\, but to prove by the earnestness of others t hat your love also is genuine. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Ch rist\, that though he was rich\, yet for your sake he became poor\, so tha t by his poverty you might become rich. And in this matter I give my advic e: it is best for you now to complete what a year ago you began not only t o do but to desire\, so that your readiness in desiring it may be matched by your completing it out of what you have. For if the readiness is there\ , it is acceptable according to what a man has\, not according to what he has not. I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened\, but that as a matter of equality your abundance at the present time should sup ply their want\, so that their abundance may supply your want\, that there may be equality. As it is written\, "He who gathered much has nothing ove r\, and he who gathered little had no lack."\n\nGospel Reading: Mark 3:6-1 2 \nAt that time\, the Pharisees held counsel with the Herodians against Jesus\, how to destroy him. Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea\, and a great multitude from Galilee followed\; also from Judea and Jerusal em and Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from about Tyre and Sidon a g reat multitude\, hearing all that he did\, came to him. And he told his di sciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd\, lest they shou ld crush him\; for he had healed many\, so that all who had diseases press ed upon him to touch him. And whenever the unclean spirits beheld him\, th ey fell down before him and cried out\, "You are the Son of God." And he s trictly ordered them not to make him known.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260824 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260825 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133143 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133144 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Return of the Body of Bartholomew the Glorious Apostle DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 08/25/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Return of the Body of Bartholomew the Glorious Apostle\; Titus the Ap ostle of the 70\; John the Cappadocian\, Epiphanius and Menas\, Patriarchs of Constantinople\; Holy Father John of Karpathos\; Ebba\, First Abbess o f Coldingham\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to Titus 1:1-5\; 2:15\; 3:1-2\, 12-15 \nPAUL\, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ\, to further the faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth whic h accords with godliness\, in hope of eternal life which God\, who never l ies\, promised ages ago and at the proper time manifested in his word thro ugh the preaching with which I have been entrusted by command of God our S avior\;\n\nTo Titus\, my true child in a common faith:\n\nGrace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.\n\nDeclare these things\; exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one disregard you.\n\nRemin d them to be submissive to rulers and authorities\, to be obedient\, to be ready for any honest work\, to speak evil of no one\, to avoid quarreling \, to be gentle\, and to show perfect courtesy toward all men.\n\nWhen I s end Artemas or Tychicos to you\, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis\, for I have decided to spend the winter there. Do your best to speed Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way\; see that they lack nothing. And let our people learn to apply themselves to good deeds\, so as to help cases of urgent need\, and not to be unfruitful.\n\nAll who are with me send gre etings to you. Greet those who love us in the faith.\n\nGrace be with you all. Amen.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 5:14-19 \nThe Lord said to his disc iples\, "You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hi d. Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel\, but on a stand\, an d it gives light to all in the house. Let your light so shine before men\, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven. Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets\; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly\, I say to you\, till heaven and earth pass away\, not an iota\, not a dot\, will pas s from the law until all is accomplished. Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so\, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven\; but he who does them and teaches them shall be cal led great in the kingdom of heaven."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260825 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260826 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133144 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133145 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ The Holy Martyrs Adrian and Natalie DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 08/26/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: The Holy Martyrs Adrian and Natalie\; Our Righteous Father Joseph\; I con of the Mother of God of Vladimir\n\nStrict Fast\n\nEpistle Reading: St . Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 10:32-38 \nBrethren\, recall the former da ys when\, after you were enlightened\, you endured a hard struggle with su fferings\, sometimes being publicly exposed to abuse and affliction\, and sometimes being partners with those so treated. For you had compassion on the prisoners\, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property\ , since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abidin g one. Therefore do not throw away your confidence\, which has a great rew ard. For you have need of endurance\, so that you may do the will of God a nd receive what is promised. "For yet a little while\, and the coming one shall come and shall not tarry\; but my righteous one shall live by faith. "\n\nGospel Reading: Mark 3:20-27 \nAt that time\, Jesus came to a home\, and the crowd came together again\, so that they could not even eat. And when his family heard it\, they went out to seize him\, for people were sa ying\, "He is beside himself." And the scribes who came down from Jerusale m said\, "He is possessed by Beelzebul\, and by the prince of demons he ca sts out the demons." And he called them to him\, and said to them in parab les\, "How can Satan cast out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itsel f\, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself\, that house will not be able to stand. And if Satan has risen up against hi mself and is divided\, he cannot stand\, but is coming to an end. But no o ne can enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods\, unless he first binds the strong man\; then indeed he may plunder his house."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260826 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260827 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133145 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133146 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: Pimen the Great DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 08/27/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Pimen the Great\; Holy Martyr Phanurius\; Anthousa the Martyr\; Poime n of Palestine\; Hosisos the Confessor\; Liverios\, Pope of Rome\; Monica\ n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 10:7-18 \ nBrethren\, if any one is confident that he is Christ's\, let him remind h imself that as he is Christ's\, so are we. For even if I boast a little to o much of our authority\, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you\, I shall not be put to shame. I would not seem to be f rightening you with letters. For they say\,"His letters are weighty and st rong\, but his bodily presence is weak\, and his speech of no account." Le t such people understand that what we say by letter when absent\, we do wh en present. Not that we venture to class or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But when they measure themselves by one ano ther\, and compare themselves with one another\, they are without understa nding. But we will not boast beyond limit\, but will keep to the limits Go d has apportioned us\, to reach even to you. For we are not overextending ourselves\, as though we did not reach you\; we were the first to come all the way to you with the gospel of Christ. We do not boast beyond limit\, in other men's labors\; but our hope is that you may be greatly enlarged\, so that we may preach the gospel in lands beyond you\, without boasting o f work already done in another's field. "Let him who boasts\, boast of the Lord." For it is not the man who commends himself that is accepted\, but the man whom the Lord commends.\n\nGospel Reading: Mark 3:28-35 \nThe Lor d said\, "Truly\, I say to you\, all sins will be forgiven the sons of men \, and whatever blasphemies they utter\; but whoever blasphemes against th e Holy Spirit never has forgiveness\, but is guilty of an eternal sin" for they had said\, "He has an unclean spirit." And his mother and his brothe rs came\; and standing outside they sent to him and called him. And a crow d was sitting about him\; and they said to him\, "Your mother and your bro thers are outside\, asking for you." And he replied\, "Who are my mother a nd my brothers?" And looking around on those who sat about him\, he said\, "Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does the will of God is my b rother\, and sister\, and mother."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260827 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260828 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133146 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133147 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:☦️ Moses the Black of Scete DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 08/28/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Moses the Black of Scete\; Diomedes &\; Laurence the Martyrs\; 33 Martyrs of Nicomedea\; Job of Pochaev \; Synaxis of the Kiev Cave Fathers\ n\nStrict Fast\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinth ians 11:5-21 \nBrethren\, I think that I am not in the least inferior to these superlative apostles. Even if I am unskilled in speaking\, I am not in knowledge\; in every way we have made this plain to you in all things.\ n\nDid I commit a sin in abasing myself so that you might be exalted\, bec ause I preached God's gospel without cost to you? I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you. And when I was with you and was in want\, I did not burden any one\, for my needs were supplie d by the brethren who came from Macedonia. So I refrained and will refrain from burdening you in any way. As the truth of Christ is in me\, this boa st of mine shall not be silenced in the regions of Achaia. And why? Becaus e I do not love you? God knows I do!\n\nAnd what I do I will continue to d o\, in order to undermine the claim of those who would like to claim that in their boasted mission they work on the same terms as we do. For such me n are false apostles\, deceitful workmen\, disguising themselves as apostl es of Christ. And no wonder\, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is not strange if his servants also disguise themselves a s servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.\n\n I repeat\, let no one think me foolish\; but even if you do\, accept me as a fool\, so that I too may boast a little. (What I am saying I say not wi th the Lord's authority but as a fool\, in this boastful confidence\; sinc e many boast of worldly things\, I too will boast.) For you gladly bear wi th fools\, being wise yourselves! For you bear it if a man makes slaves of you\, or preys upon you\, or takes advantage of you\, or puts on airs\, o r strikes you in the face. To my shame\, I must say\, we were too weak for that!\n\nGospel Reading: Mark 4:1-9 \nAt that time\, Jesus began to teac h beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him\, so that he g ot into a boat and sat in it on the sea\; and the whole crowd was beside t he sea on the land. And he taught them many things in parables\, and in hi s teaching he said to them: "Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he so wed\, some seed fell along the path\, and the birds came and devoured it. Other seed fell on rocky ground\, where it had not much soil\, and immedia tely it sprang up\, since it had no depth of soil\; and when the sun rose it was scorched\, and since it had no root it withered away. Other seed fe ll among thorns and the thorns grew up and choked it\, and it yielded no g rain. And other seeds fell into good soil and brought forth grain\, growin g up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfol d." And he said\, "He who has ears to hear\, let him hear."\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260828 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260829 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133147 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133148 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:🍇 Beheading of the Holy and Glorious Prophet\, Forerunner and Ba ptist John DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 08/29/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: Beheading of the Holy and Glorious Prophet\, Forerunner and Baptist J ohn\; Theodora of Thessaloniki\; Anastasios the New Martyr of Bulgaria\n\n Fast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: Matthew 14:1-13 \nAt that time\, Herod the tetrarch heard about the fame of Jesus\; and h e said to his servants\, "This is John the Baptist\; he has been raised fr om the dead\; that is why these powers are at work in him." For Herod had seized John and bound him and put him in prison\, for the sake of Herodias \, his brother Philip's wife\; because John said to him\, "It is not lawfu l for you to have her." And though he wanted to put him to death\, he fear ed the people\, because they held him to be a prophet. But when Herod's bi rthday came\, the daughter of Herodias danced before the company and pleas ed Herod\, so that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she might ask. Prompted by her mother\, she said\, "Give me the head of John the Ba ptist here on a platter." And the king was sorry\; but because of his oath s and his guests he commanded it to be given\; he sent and had John behead ed in the prison\, and his head was brought on a platter and given to the girl\, and she brought it to her mother. And his disciples came and took t he body and buried it\; and they went and told Jesus. Now when Jesus heard this\, he withdrew from there in a boat to a lonely place apart. But when the crowds heard it\, they followed him on foot from the towns.\n\nEpistl e Reading: Acts of the Apostles 13:25-33 \nIN THOSE DAYS\, as John was fi nishing his course\, he said\, "What do you suppose that I am? I am not he . No\, but after me one is coming\, the sandals of whose feet I am not wor thy to untie." Brethren\, sons of the family of Abraham\, and those among you that fear God\, to us has been sent the message of this salvation. For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers\, because they did not recog nize him nor understand the utterances of the prophets which are read ever y sabbath\, fulfilled these by condemning him. Though they could charge hi m with nothing deserving death\, yet they asked Pilate to have him killed. And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him\, they took him d own from the tree\, and laid him in a tomb. But God raised him from the de ad\; and for many days he appeared to those who came up with him from Gali lee to Jerusalem\, who are now his witnesses to the people. And we bring y ou the good news that what God promised to the fathers\, this he has fulfi lled to us their children by raising Jesus.\n\nGospel Reading: Mark 6:14-3 0 \nAt that time\, Herod the King heard about the fame of Jesus\, for his name had become known. He said\, "John the baptizer has been raised from the dead\; that is why these powers are at work in him." But others said\, "It is Elijah." And others said\, "It is a prophet\, like one of the prop hets of old." But when Herod heard of it he said\, "John\, whom I beheaded \, has been raised." For Herod had sent and seized John\, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias\, his brother Philip's wife\; because he had married her. For John said to Herod\, "It is not lawful for you to hav e your brother's wife." And Herodias had a grudge against him\, and wanted to kill him. But she could not\, for Herod feared John\, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man\, and kept him safe. When he heard him\, he w as much perplexed\; and yet he heard him gladly. But an opportunity came w hen Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his courtiers and officers an d the leading men of Galilee. For when Herodias' daughter came in and danc ed\, she pleased Herod and his guests\; and the king said to the girl\, "A sk me for whatever you wish\, and I will grant it." And he vowed to her\, "Whatever you ask me\, I will give you\, even half of my kingdom." And she went out\, and said to her mother\, "What shall I ask?" And she said\, "T he head of John the baptizer." And she came in immediately with haste to t he king\, and asked\, saying\, "I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter." And the king was exceedingly sorry\; but b ecause of his oaths and his guests he did not want to break his word to he r. And immediately the king sent a soldier of the guard and gave orders to bring his head. He went and beheaded him in the prison\, and brought his head on a platter\, and gave it to the girl\; and the girl gave it to her mother. When his disciples heard of it\, they came and took his body\, and laid it in a tomb. The apostles returned to Jesus\, and told him all that they had done and taught.\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260829 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260830 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133148 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133149 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: 13th Sunday of Matthew DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 08/30/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: 13th Sunday of Matthew\; Apodosis of the Feast of the Forerunner\; Al exander\, John\, and Paul the New\, Patriarchs of Constantinople\; Phantin os the Righteous of Calabria\; 16 Monk-martyrs of Thebes\; 6 Martyrs of Me litene\; The Synaxis of the Holy Hierarchs of Serbia\; The Holy New Martyr s of Serbia\; Fiacre the Hermit of Meaux\n\nMatins Gospel Reading: Mark 16 :1-8 \nWhen the Sabbath was past\, Mary Magdalene\, and Mary the mother o f James and Salome\, bought spices\, so that they might go and anoint Jesu s. And very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb when the sun had risen. And they were saying to one another\, "Who will roll aw ay the stone for us from the door of the tomb?" And looking up\, they saw that the stone was rolled back - it was very large. And entering the tomb\ , they saw a young man sitting on the right side\, dressed in a white robe \; and they were amazed. And he said to them\, "Do not be amazed\; you see k Jesus of Nazareth\, who was crucified. He has risen\, He is not here\; s ee the place where they laid Him. But go\, tell His disciples and Peter th at He is going before you to Galilee\; there you will see Him\, as He told you." And they went out and fled from the tomb\, for trembling and astoni shment had come upon them\; and they said nothing to anyone\, for they wer e afraid.\n\nEpistle Reading: St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 1 6:13-24 \nBrethren\, be watchful\, stand firm in your faith\, be courageo us\, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love. Now\, brethren\, you know that the household of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia\, a nd they have devoted themselves to the service of the saints\; I urge you to be subject to such men and to every fellow worker and laborer. I rejoic e at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicos\, because they ha ve made up for your absence\; for they refreshed my spirit as well as your s. Give recognition to such men. The churches of Asia send greetings. Aqui la and Prisca\, together with the church in their house\, send you hearty greetings in the Lord. All the brethren send greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss. I\, Paul\, write this greeting with my own hand. If any one has no love for the Lord\, let him be accursed. Our Lord\, come! The g race of the Lord Jesus be with you. My love be with you all in Christ Jesu s. Amen.\n\nGospel Reading: Matthew 21:33-42 \nThe Lord said this parable \, "There was a householder who planted a vineyard\, and set a hedge aroun d it\, and dug a wine press in it\, and built a tower\, and let it out to tenants\, and went into another country. When the season of fruit drew nea r\, he sent his servants to the tenants\, to get his fruit\; and the tenan ts took his servants and beat one\, killed another\, and stoned another. A gain he sent other servants\, more than the first\; and they did the same to them. Afterward he sent his son to them\, saying 'They will respect my son.' But when the tenants saw the son\, they said to themselves\, 'This i s the heir\; come\, let us kill him and have his inheritance.' And they to ok him and cast him out of the vineyard and killed him. When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes\, what will he do to those tenants?" They sai d to him\, "He will put those wretches to a miserable death\, and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their season s." Jesus said to them\, "Have you never read in the scriptures: 'The very stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner\; thi s was the Lord's doing\, and it is marvelous in our eyes?'"\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260830 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260831 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133149 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1891133151 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY: The Placing of the Honorable Sash of the Most Holy Theotokos DESCRIPTION:Saints\, Feasts\, and Readings for 08/31/2026\n\nSaints and Fea sts: The Placing of the Honorable Sash of the Most Holy Theotokos\; Cypria n the Hieromartyr &\; Bishop of Carthage\; Gennadius Scholarus\, Patria rch of Constantinople\; Aidan\, Bishop of Lindisfarne\; Eanswythe\, Abbess of Folkestone\; Cuthburga the Queen\, Abbess of Wimborne\n\nEpistle Readi ng: St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 9:1-7 \nBRETHREN\, the first covenan t had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary. For a tent was pre pared\, the outer one\, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of the Presence\; it is called the Holy Place. Behind the second cur tain stood a tent called the Holy of Holies\, having the golden altar of i ncense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold\, which contained a golden urn holding the manna\, and Aaron's rod that budded\, a nd the tables of the covenant\; above it were the cherubim of glory oversh adowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail. The se preparations having thus been made\, the priests go continually into th e outer tent\, performing their ritual duties\; but into the second only t he high priest goes\, and he but once a year\, and not without taking bloo d which he offers for himself and for the errors of the people.\n\nGospel Reading: Luke 10:38-42\, 11:27-28 \nAt that time\, Jesus entered a villag e\; and a woman called Martha received him into her house. And she had a s ister called Mary\, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teachin g. But Martha was distracted with much serving\; and she went to him and s aid\, "Lord\, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve you alon e? Tell her then to help me." But the Lord answered her\, "Martha\, Martha \, you are anxious and troubled about many things\; one thing is needful. Mary has chosen the good portion\, which shall not be taken away from her. " As he said this\, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him\ , "Blessed is the womb that bore you\, and the breasts that you sucked!" B ut he said\, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep i t!"\n\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE CATEGORIES:Saints Day Calendar CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260831 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260901 CREATED:20250602T193807Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/1891133151 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2131482652 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Set up for Tables With a Twist (Antiochian Women) DESCRIPTION:Who: Antiochian Women\n\nAnnual Luncheon event \n\n LOCATION:Hall and kitchen CATEGORIES:Antiochian Women CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261107T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261107T170000 CREATED:20260714T075545Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2131482652 X-TEAMUP-WHO:Antiochian Women X-TEAMUP-WHERE:Hall and kitchen END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2131483199 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Tables with a Twist Luncheon (Antiochian Women) DESCRIPTION:Who: Antiochian Women\n\nLuncheon \n\n LOCATION:Hall and Kitchen CATEGORIES:Antiochian Women CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261108T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261108T160000 CREATED:20260714T075749Z URL;VALUE=URI:https://teamup.com/kso6onkcxiyt8euinn/events/2131483199 X-TEAMUP-WHO:Antiochian Women X-TEAMUP-WHERE:Hall and Kitchen END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU658203058 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Great Vespers CATEGORIES:Services CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200314T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200314T180000 CREATED:20200310T141217Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260620T155153Z RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20210424T170000,20210501T170000,20210612T17000 0,20211225T170000,20220423T170000,20220604T170000,20220806T170000,20221224 T170000,20230325T170000,20230408T170000,20230415T170000,20230527T170000,20 230909T170000,20231223T170000,20240427T170000,20240504T170000,20240629T170 000,20240720T170000,20240727T170000,20240817T170000,20240914T170000,202504 12T170000,20250614T170000,20250628T170000,20250719T170000,20250830T170000, 20251115T170000,20251129T170000,20251213T170000,20260404T170000,20260411T1 70000,20260516T170000,20260620T170000,20260704T170000,20260711T170000,2026 0718T170000,20260822T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1577134590 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:St. George Food Pantry Distribution (Denise Potter\, Food Pantry) DESCRIPTION:Who: Denise Potter\, Food Pantry\n\nDistribution of Food Boxes to General Public\n\n CATEGORIES:Food Pantry Ministry CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231021T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231021T123000 CREATED:20230914T185111Z RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;BYDAY=3SA X-TEAMUP-WHO:Denise Potter\, Food Pantry END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1577153846 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Antiochian Women Meeting CATEGORIES:Antiochian Women CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231015T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231015T123000 CREATED:20230914T193616Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260601T143638Z RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;BYDAY=3SU EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231119T113000,20231217T113000,20240121T11300 0,20240616T113000,20240721T113000,20240818T113000,20240915T113000,20250420 T113000,20250615T113000,20260118T113000,20260621T113000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1830071323 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Homeless Ministry CATEGORIES:Homeless Ministry CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250330T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250330T150000 CREATED:20250219T153314Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250219T153454Z RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;BYDAY=-1SU EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20251130T123000,20251228T123000,20261129T12300 0,20261227T123000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1866839849 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Divine Liturgy CATEGORIES:Services CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250427T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250427T113000 CREATED:20250422T131912Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260329T165324Z RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20260412T103000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1926472793 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Orthros CATEGORIES:Services CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250727T092000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250727T102900 CREATED:20250803T021412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260329T165330Z RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20260412T092000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1926646921 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Christian Adult-Ed CATEGORIES:Adult Ed - Sunday Morning CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250803T094500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250803T103000 CREATED:20250803T142814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260329T165343Z RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20260412T094500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU1926647305 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Church School CATEGORIES:Church School for Kids CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250803T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250803T103000 CREATED:20250803T142941Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260329T165336Z RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20260412T093000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:TU2118217915 DTSTAMP:20260714T081040Z SUMMARY:Akathist Service DESCRIPTION:Followed by mid-week words of encouragement\, anointing\, and c onfessions. \n\n CATEGORIES:Services CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260624T094500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260624T104500 CREATED:20260620T155414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260620T155540Z RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;BYDAY=WE END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR