Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost - 10/4/26
Sunday, October 4th, is the eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost. On this day we commemorate:
Hieromartyr Hierotheus, Bishop of Athens (1st c.)
Uncovering of the Relics of St. Gurias, first Archbishop of Kazan, and St. Varsonúphy (Barsanuphius), Bishop of Tver’ (1595)
Synaxis of the Hierarchs of Kazan’ (1976)
Rt. Blv. Prince Vladimir Yaroslavich, Prince of Novgorod (1052)
Ven. Helladius and Onesimus of the Kiev Caves (Near Caves—12th-13th c.)
Ven. Ammon, Recluse, of the Kiev Caves (Far Caves—13th c.)
Martyrs Gaius, Faustus, Eusebius, and Chæremon, of Alexandria (3rd c.)
Martyr Peter of Capitolias (3rd-4th c.)
Martyrs Domnina and her daughters Berenice and Prosdoce of Syria (305-306)
Ven. Ammon (ca. 350) and Paul the Simple (4th c.), of Egypt
St. Stephen Stiljianovich of Serbia (1515).
Readings for Sunday, October 4th:
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6
But this I say: “He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.”
7
So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.
8
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.
9
As it is written: “He has dispersed abroad, He has given to the poor; His righteousness endures forever.”
10
Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness,
11
while you are enriched in everything for all liberality, which causes thanksgiving through us to God.
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31
And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise.
32
But if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.
33
And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
34
And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive back, what credit is that to you? For even sinners lend to sinners to receive as much back.
35
But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil.
36
Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.
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.