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Daily Readings:
Thursday
1 Timothy 3:1-13
1 timothy 3:1-13
3The saying is sure: whoever aspires to the office of bishop desires a noble task. 2Now a bishop must be above reproach, married only once, temperate, sensible, respectable, hospitable, an apt teacher, 3not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, and not a lover of money. 4He must manage his own household well, keeping his children submissive and respectful in every way— 5for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he take care of God’s church? 6He must not be a recent convert, or he may be puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil. 7Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace and the snare of the devil.
8Deacons likewise must be serious, not double-tongued, not indulging in much wine, not greedy for money; 9they must hold fast to the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience. 10And let them first be tested; then, if they prove themselves blameless, let them serve as deacons. 11Women likewise must be serious, not slanderers, but temperate, faithful in all things. 12Let deacons be married only once, and let them manage their children and their households well; 13for those who serve well as deacons gain a good standing for themselves and great boldness in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.
Luke 16:1-9
Luke 16:1-9
16Then Jesus said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was squandering his property. 2So he summoned him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give me an accounting of your management, because you cannot be my manager any longer.’ 3Then the manager said to himself, ‘What will I do, now that my master is taking the position away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. 4I have decided what to do so that, when I am dismissed as manager, people may welcome me into their homes.’ 5So, summoning his master’s debtors one by one, he asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ 6He answered, ‘A hundred jugs of olive oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it fifty.’ 7Then he asked another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ He replied, ‘A hundred containers of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill and make it eighty.’ 8And his master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the children of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light. 9And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of dishonest wealth so that when it is gone, they may welcome you into the eternal homes.
The Synaxarion:
November 11
Memory of the holy Martyrs Menas, Victor
(+under Antoninus, 138-161), and
Vincent (beginning of the Fourth century)
The holy Martyr Stephanida (+under Antoninus, 136-161)
Our venerable Father Theodore the Studite, the Confessor (759-826)
The principal feast of Saint Menas is on December 10.
As for Saints Victor and Stephanida, it is said that they were martyred in Egypt under Emperor Antoninus (138-161). Saint Vincent, the archdeacon of Valerius, the Bishop of Caesaraugusta in Spain, was put to death at the beginning of the Fourth century, in Caesaraugusta, under Emperor Maximian.
Saint Theodore was born in Constantinople in 759. After very complete studies, he withdrew in 781, at the age of twenty-two, to the Monastery of Sakkoudion in Bithynia, under the direction of his uncle Plato. He was ordained a priest by Patriarch Tarasios. In 794, he became hegumen of Sakkoudion. Exiled in 797 to Thessalonica for having protested against the adultery of Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, he was recalled by Empress Irene. The Arab incursions (798-799) forced him to abandon Sakkoudion and take refuge inside the Capital, in the Monastery of Studion, also called by the name of the Roman consul Studius who founded it in 463. This fact merits for the Saint the name of Studite. Exiled a second time in 809, by Emperor Nicephoros I Logothetus in the matter of the Imperial adultery, he was recalled again in 811 by Michael I Rangabe. He suffered exile a third time for his defense of the Holy Icons, under the Iconoclast Emperor Leo the Armenian (815-821). He died in 826, after having worthily suffered and fought for the true faith, leaving a monastic constitution, some catechetics, and numerous hymnographic compositions full of compunction. His holy body was transferred to the monastery of Studion in 844.
Fifth Class Feast.
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