14th Sunday After Pentecost - 9/6/26

Sunday, September 6th, is the fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost. On this day we remember:

• The Miracle of the Archangel Michael at Colossæ

• Martyrs Eudoxius, Zeno, and Macarius (311-312)

• St. Archippus (Arkhipp) of Herapolis

• Martyr Romulus, and with him many others (107-115)

• Hieromartyr Cyril, Bishop of Gortyna (3rd-4th c.)

• Martyrs Cyriacus, Faustus the Presbyter, Abibas the Deacon, and 11 others, at Alexandria (ca. 250)

• St. David of Hermopolis, Egypt (4th c.)

• Hieromartyr Priest Maxim Sandovich (1914).

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

Readings for Sunday, September 6th:

• 2 Corinthians 1:21-2:4

  21

  Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God,

  22

  who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.

  23

  Moreover I call God as witness against my soul, that to spare you I came no more to Corinth.

  24

  Not that we have dominion over your faith, but are fellow workers for your joy; for by faith you stand.

  1

  But I determined this within myself, that I would not come again to you in sorrow.

  2

  For if I make you sorrowful, then who is he who makes me glad but the one who is made sorrowful by me?

  3

  And I wrote this very thing to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow over those from whom I ought to have joy, having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all.

  4

  For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you, with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have so abundantly for you.

• Matthew 22:1-14

  1

  And Jesus answered and spoke to them again by parables and said:

  2

  “The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who arranged a marriage for his son,

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  and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding; and they were not willing to come.

  4

  Again, he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fatted cattle are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding.”’

  5

  But they made light of it and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his business.

  6

  And the rest seized his servants, treated them spitefully, and killed them.

  7

  But when the king heard about it, he was furious. And he sent out his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.

  8

  Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.

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  Therefore go into the highways, and as many as you find, invite to the wedding.’

  10

  So those servants went out into the highways and gathered together all whom they found, both bad and good. And the wedding hall was filled with guests.

  11

  But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man there who did not have on a wedding garment.

  12

  So he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless.

  13

  Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

  14

  For many are called, but few are chosen.”

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.