25th Sunday after Pentecost - 11/30/25
Sunday, November 30th, is the 25th Sunday after Pentecost, and on this day the Church remembers:
The Holy and All-Praised Apostle Andrew the First-called (62)
Ven. Sebastian Dabovich (1940)
St. Frumentius, Archbishop of Abyssinia (Ethiopia—ca. 380)
Saint Vakhtang Gorgasali, King of Georgia
Hierarch Peter, first Catholicos of Georgia
Hierarch Samuel, Second Catholicos of Georgia
Read more about the lives of these saints here.
Readings for Sunday, October 19th:
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For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.
10
We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored!
11
To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless.
12
And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;
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being defamed, we entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.
14
I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you.
15
For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
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Therefore I urge you, imitate me.
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35
Again, the next day, John stood with two of his disciples.
36
And looking at Jesus as He walked, he said, “Behold the Lamb of God!”
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The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
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Then Jesus turned, and seeing them following, said to them, “What do you seek?” They said to Him, “Rabbi,” (which is to say, when translated, Teacher) “where are You staying?”
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He said to them, “Come and see.” They came and saw where He was staying, and remained with Him that day (now it was about the tenth hour).
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One of the two who heard John speak, and followed Him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.
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He first found his own brother Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which is translated, the Christ).
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And he brought him to Jesus. Now when Jesus looked at him, He said, “You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas” (which is translated, A Stone).
43
The following day Jesus wanted to go to Galilee, and He found Philip and said to him, “Follow Me.”
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Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.
45
Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found Him of whom Moses in the law, and also the prophets, wrote – Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
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And Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
47
Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him, and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”
48
Nathanael said to Him, “How do You know me?” Jesus answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”
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Nathanael answered and said to Him, “Rabbi, You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!”
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Jesus answered and said to him, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”
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And He said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.”
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I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called,
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with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love,
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endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
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There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling;
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one Lord, one faith, one baptism;
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one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
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Now He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.
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And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bent over and could in no way raise herself up.
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But when Jesus saw her, He called her to Him and said to her, “Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity.”
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And He laid His hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.
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But the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath; and he said to the crowd, “There are six days on which men ought to work; therefore come and be healed on them, and not on the Sabbath day.”
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The Lord then answered him and said, “Hypocrite! Does not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or donkey from the stall, and lead it away to water it?
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So ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound – think of it – for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath?”
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And when He said these things, all His adversaries were put to shame; and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by 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.