Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost - 9/27/26
Sunday, September 27th, is the seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost. On this day we commemorate:
Martyrs Callistratus and his company (49 Martyrs—ca. 304)
Ven. Savvatii (Sabbatius), Wonderworker of Solovétsky Monastery (1435)
Apostles Mark, Aristarchus, and Zenas, of the Seventy (1st c.)
Martyr Epicharis of Rome (3rd c.)
St Ignatius of Christ the Savior Monastery (963-975).
Readings for Sunday, September 27th:
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And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”
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Therefore “Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.”
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“I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the LORD Almighty.”
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Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
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So it was, as the multitude pressed about Him to hear the word of God, that He stood by the Lake of Gennesaret,
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and saw two boats standing by the lake; but the fishermen had gone from them and were washing their nets.
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Then He got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. And He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.
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When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, “Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.”
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But Simon answered and said to Him, “Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net.”
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And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish, and their net was breaking.
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So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink.
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When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!”
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For he and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish which they had taken;
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and so also were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid. From now on you will catch men.”
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So when they had brought their boats to land, they forsook all and followed Him.
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.