Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost - 10/11/26
Sunday, October 11th, is the nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost. On this day we commemorate:
The Fathers of the 7th Ecumenical Council
Ven. Philotheus, Patriarch of Constantinople (1379)
Holy Apostle Philip of the Seventy, one of the Seven Deacons (1st c.)
St. Theophanes the Confessor and Hymnographer, Bishop of Nicæa (ca. 850)
Ven. Theophanes, Faster, of the Kiev Caves (Near Caves—12th c.)
Ven. Leo of Optina (1841)
Synaxis of the Optina elders
Virgin Martyrs Zenaΐda and Philonίlla, of Tarsus in Cilicia (1st c.).
Readings for Sunday, October 11th:
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Remember those who rule over you, who have spoken the word of God to you, whose faith follow, considering the outcome of their conduct.
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Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.
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We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.
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For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp.
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Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate.
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Therefore let us go forth to Him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach.
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For here we have no continuing city, but we seek the one to come.
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Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.
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But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
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Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You,
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as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him.
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And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
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I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do.
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And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.
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I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.
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Now they have known that all things which You have given Me are from You.
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For I have given to them the words which You have given Me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came forth from You; and they have believed that You sent Me.
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I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours.
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And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them.
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Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are.
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While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
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But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves.
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The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.
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In Damascus the governor, under Aretas the king, was guarding the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desiring to arrest me;
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but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and escaped from his hands.
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It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord:
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I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago – whether in the body I do not know, or whether out of the body I do not know, God knows – such a one was caught up to the third heaven.
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And I know such a man – whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows –
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how he was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
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Of such a one I will boast; yet of myself I will not boast, except in my infirmities.
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For though I might desire to boast, I will not be a fool; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, lest anyone should think of me above what he sees me to be or hears from me.
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And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure.
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Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me.
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And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
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Now it happened, the day after, that He went into a city called Nain; and many of His disciples went with Him, and a large crowd.
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And when He came near the gate of the city, behold, a dead man was being carried out, the only son of his mother; and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the city was with her.
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When the Lord saw her, He had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.”
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Then He came and touched the open coffin, and those who carried him stood still. And He said, “Young man, I say to you, arise.”
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So he who was dead sat up and began to speak. And He presented him to his mother.
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Then fear came upon all, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has risen up among us”; and, “God has visited His people.”
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.