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Finding of the Relics of Cyrus and John the Unmercenaries
Friday, June 28, 2019
Saints, Feasts, and Readings for 6/28/2019

Saints and Feasts: Finding of the Relics of Cyrus and John the Unmercenaries, Pappias the Martyr, Righteous Fathers Sergius and Herman, Founders of Valaam Monastery, Synaxis of the Icon of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos , Paul the Physician of Corinth, Sergios the Magister

Strict Fast


Epistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 5:17-21; 6:1-2

Brethren, if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.

Then as one man's trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one man's act of righteousness leads to acquittal and life for all men. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by one man's obedience many will be made righteous. Law came in, to increase the trespass; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?


Gospel Reading: Matthew 9:14-17

At that time, the disciples of John came to Jesus, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?" And Jesus said to them, "Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come, when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. And no one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is made. Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; if it is, the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are destroyed; but new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved."