Saturday, June 21, 2025
The Orthodox liturgical day, its saint, its tone, and its fast.
New Calendar
Commemorated today
- Martyr Julian of Tarsus
- Our Holy Fathers Julius and Julian (5th c.)
Today is a fast day, but fish is permitted, no meat or dairy, but fish, wine, and oil are allowed.
Old Calendar
Commemorated today
- Trans. Rel. Theodore Stratelates
- St Ephraim, Patriarch of Antioch (545)
- Our Holy Mother Melania the Elder (410)
- St Zosimas, monk, of Phoenicia (Syria) (6th c.)
Today is a fast day, but fish is permitted, no meat or dairy, but fish, wine, and oil are allowed.
- Tone 8 of the Octoechos
- 1st Sunday after Pentecost
The day’s readings
EpistleRomans 3.19-26
3:19Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God. 20Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin. 21But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets; 22even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction, 23for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; 24being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance; 26to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time, that he might himself be just and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.
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GospelMatthew 7.1-8
7:1“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. 2For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you. 3Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye? 4Or how will you tell your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ and behold, the beam is in your own eye? 5You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye. 6“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces. 7“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. 8For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
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The order and appointment of the readings follow the Orthodox lectionary. Come to the Liturgy to hear them proclaimed.