Fourth Sunday After Pentecost - 6/28/26
Sunday, June 28th, is the fourth Sunday after Pentecost.
On this day, we remember:
the translation of the Relics of the holy and wonderworking Unmercenaries Cyrus and John (412)
Ven. Xenophon, Abbot of Robeika (Novgorod—1262)
Ven. Sergius and Herman, Wonderworkers of Valaam (ca. 1353)
St. Paul, Physician of Corinth
Icon of the Mother of God “Of the Three Hands” (8th c.)
Hieromartyr Basil (1918)
Holy Martyr Pappias (4th c.).
Readings for Sunday, June 28th:
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And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
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I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness.
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For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
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What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
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But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.
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For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Now when Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to Him, pleading with Him,
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saying, “Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, dreadfully tormented.”
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And Jesus said to him, “I will come and heal him.”
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The centurion answered and said, “Lord, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof. But only speak a word, and my servant will be healed.
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For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
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When Jesus heard it, He marveled, and said to those who followed, “Assuredly, I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel!
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And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
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But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
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Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go your way; and as you have believed, so let it be done for you.” And his servant was healed that same hour.
The Holy Scriptures are part of the Church’s Holy Tradition. Metropolitan Kallistos Ware of blessed memory wrote:
In the words of Father Alexander Schmemann, “A Christian is the one who, wherever he looks, finds everywhere Christ, and rejoices in Him.” This is true in particular of the biblical Christian. Wherever he looks, on every page, he finds everywhere Christ.
See Metropolitan Ware’s article How to Read the Bible for more on an Orthodox approach to scripture.