Sunday, August 9th, is the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost and the day we celebrate the Afterfeast of the Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ.
“The Church’s hymns today invite us to ‘ascend the holy mountain’ and ‘with the eyes of faith,’ to ‘behold the radiant Transfiguration of the Lord.’ Christ has transformed our fallen human nature and restored its original beauty ‘by the burning radiance of His divinity.’”
On this day we also remember:
The Glorification of Ven. Herman of Alaska, Wonderworker of All America (1970)
Hieromartyr Euthymios of Rhodes (16th c.)
Apostle Matthias (ca. 63)
Martyr Anthony of Alexandria. Ven. Psoï of Egypt (4th c.)
Martyrs Julian, Marcian, John, James, Alexius, Demetrius, Photius (Phocas), Peter, Leontius, and Mary, of Constantinople (730).
Read more about the afterfeast and the lives of these saints here.

Readings for Sunday, August 9th:

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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
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gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
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And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
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If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
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Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
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Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted.
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Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
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And He came down with them and stood on a level place with a crowd of His disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear Him and be healed of their diseases,
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as well as those who were tormented with unclean spirits. And they were healed.
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And the whole multitude sought to touch Him, for power went out from Him and healed them all.
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Then He lifted up His eyes toward His disciples, and said: “Blessed are you poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
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Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.
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Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude you, and revile you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.
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Rejoice in that day and leap for joy! For indeed your reward is great in heaven, for in like manner their fathers did to the prophets.
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For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.
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We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored!
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To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless.
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And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;
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being defamed, we entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.
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I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you.
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For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
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Therefore I urge you, imitate me.
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And when they had come to the multitude, a man came to Him, kneeling down to Him and saying,
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“Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and suffers severely; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water.
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So I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not cure him.”
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Then Jesus answered and said, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me.”
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And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him; and the child was cured from that very hour.
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Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?”
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So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.
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However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.”
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Now while they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men,
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and they will kill Him, and the third day He will be raised up.” And they were exceedingly sorrowful.

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.

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