13th Sunday After Pentecost - 8/30/26

Sunday, August 30th, is the thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost. On this day we remember:

• Translation of the Relics of Rt. Blv. Great Prince St. Alexander Nevsky (1724)

• Sts. Alexander (340), John (595), and Paul the New (784), Patriarchs of Constantinople

• Repose of Ven. Alexander, Abbot of Svir (1533)

• Uncovering of the Relics of St. Daniel, Prince of Moscow (1652)

• St. Christopher of Palestine (6th c.)

• St. Fantinus of Calabria (9th c.)

• Synaxis of the Serbian Hierarchs: Ss. Savva I (1237), Arsenius I (1266), Savva II (1269), Eustathius I (ca. 1285), James (1292), Νikόdēmos (1325), and Daniel (1338), Archbishops; Joannicus II (1354), Spyridon (1388), Ephraim II (after 1395), Macarius (1574), Gabriel I (1659), Patriarchs; and Gregory, Bishop.

Read more about the lives of these and other saints here.

Readings for Sunday, August 30th:

• 1 Corinthians 16:13-24

  13

  Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong.

  14

  Let all that you do be done with love.

  15

  I urge you, brethren – you know the household of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the ministry of the saints –

  16

  that you also submit to such, and to everyone who works and labors with us.

  17

  I am glad about the coming of Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus, for what was lacking on your part they supplied.

  18

  For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge such men.

  19

  The churches of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet you heartily in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.

  20

  All the brethren greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss.

  21

  The salutation with my own hand – Paul’s.

  22

  If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. O Lord, come!

  23

  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

  24

  My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.

• Matthew 21:33-42

  33

  Hear another parable: There was a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a winepress in it and built a tower. And he leased it to vinedressers and went into a far country.

  34

  Now when vintage-time drew near, he sent his servants to the vinedressers, that they might receive its fruit.

  35

  And the vinedressers took his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another.

  36

  Again he sent other servants, more than the first, and they did likewise to them.

  37

  Then last of all he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

  38

  But when the vinedressers saw the son, they said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.’

  39

  So they took him and cast him out of the vineyard and killed him.

  40

  Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vinedressers?”

  41

  They said to Him, “He will destroy those wicked men miserably, and lease his vineyard to other vinedressers who will render to him the fruits in their seasons.”

  42

  Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone. This was the LORD’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?

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.