From The Greek Orthodox Diocese of America:
Readings for today:
St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 9:6-11
Luke 9:49-56
Feasts and Saints celebrated today:
Thursday of the 5th Week
Hilarion the Great
Our Righteous Father Christodoulus, the Wonderworker of Patmos
Martyrs Theodote and Socrates
John the New Martyr of Peleponnesos
Righteous Philotheus
Epistle Reading
The reading is from St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 9:6-11
BRETHREN, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows
bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must do as he has made up
his mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a
cheerful giver. And God is able to provide you with every blessing in
abundance, so that you may always have enough of everything and may provide
in abundance for every good work. As it is written, "He scatters
abroad, he gives to the poor; his righteousness endures for ever." He who
supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply
your resources and increase the harvest of your righteousness. You
will be enriched in every way for great generosity, which through us
will produce thanksgiving to God.
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Gospel Reading
The reading is from Luke 9:49-56
At that time, one of Jesus' disciples came to him and said, "Master,
we saw a man casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him,
because he does not follow with us." But Jesus said to him, "Do not
forbid him; for he that is not against you is for you." When the days
drew near for him to be received up, he set his face to go to
Jerusalem. And he sent messengers ahead of him, who went and entered a
village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him; but the people would
not receive him, because his face was set toward Jerusalem. And when
his disciples James and John saw it, they said, "Lord, do you want us
to bid fire come down from heaven and consume them?" But he turned
and rebuked them. And they went on to another village.
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Hilarion the Great
Reading from the Synaxarion:
This Saint was born at Tabatha, near Gaza in Palestine, of pagan
parents. Sent as a young man to Alexandria to be educated, he learned the
Christian Faith and was baptized. While in Egypt he heard the fame of Saint
Anthony the Great, and upon meeting that truly great man, the Father of
monks, Saint Hilarion determined to devote himself also to the ascetical
life. He returned to Gaza, when, he gave himself over to extreme
fasting and unceasing prayer. Because of the miracles which he soon began
to work, he found himself compelled by his growing renown to leave
Gaza, to escape from the throngs of people coming to ask his prayers.
In his journeys he visited Egypt, and came again with longing to the
place where Saint Anthony had lived; but he was not able to remain in
any one place for long, since despite all his attempts to conceal
himself, the light of the grace that was in him could not be hid. After
passing through Egypt and Libya, and sailing to Sicily, he came at last
to Cyprus, where he ended the course of his life at the age of
eighty, in the year 372.
Apolytikion in the Fourth Tone
With the rivers of your tears, you have made the barren desert
fertile. Through sighs of sorrow from deep within you, your labors have
borne fruit a hundred-fold. By your miracles you have become a light,
shining upon the world. O Hilarion, our Holy Father, pray to Christ our
God, to save our souls.
Kontakion in the Third Tone
As we gather on this day, we sing thy praise and acclaim thee as a
never-setting light of the bright spiritual Daystar. Those whom ignorance
benighted, thou didst illumine with thy beams; and thou dost raise unto the
divine heights, O Hilarion, our Father, all them that cry out: Height
of ascetics, Rejoice!
Reading courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery
Apolytikion courtesy of Narthex Press
Kontakion courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery
Our Righteous Father Christodoulus, the Wonderworker of Patmos
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