Tuesday, September 16, 2025
The Orthodox liturgical day, its saint, its tone, and its fast.
New Calendar
Commemorated today
- Greatmartyr Euphemia the All-Praised
- Holy Hieromartyr Cyprian of Carthage (258)
- St Ninian, Enlightener of Scotland (432)
- Our Holy Father Dorotheos the Solitary of Egypt (4th c.)
Today is not a fast day, all foods are permitted.
Old Calendar
Commemorated today
- Hieromartyr Anthimus, Bishop of Nicomedia
- Holy Martyr Basilissa (309)
- Our Holy Father Joannicius, Archbishop and first Patriarch of Serbia (1354)
Today is not a fast day, all foods are permitted.
- Tone 5 of the Octoechos
- 14th Sunday after Pentecost
The day’s readings
EpistleGalatians 2.21-3.7
2:21I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!” 3:1Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified? 2I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith? 3Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh? 4Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain? 5He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you and does miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith? 6Even so, Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.” 7Know therefore that those who are of faith are children of Abraham.
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GospelMark 6.1-7
6:1He went out from there. He came into his own country, and his disciples followed him. 2When the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things?” and, “What is the wisdom that is given to this man, that such mighty works come about by his hands? 3Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” So they were offended at him. 4Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own house.” 5He could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. 6He marveled because of their unbelief. He went around the villages teaching. 7He called to himself the twelve, and began to send them out two by two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits.
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The order and appointment of the readings follow the Orthodox lectionary. Come to the Liturgy to hear them proclaimed.