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Daily Readings:
Saints/Martyrs/Feasts/Fasts to be observed/commemmorated/celebrated: Memory of our venerable Father Maximos the Confessor (580-662), The holy Martyr Neophytos (beginning the fourth century)
Scriptural Readings:
Friday of the Thirtieth Week after Pentecost
Hebrews 11:8,11-16
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Hebrews 11:8
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8By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
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Hebrews 11:11-16
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11Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
12Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
14For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
15And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
16But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
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Mark 9:33-41
Mark 9:33-41 (King James Version)
33And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way?
34But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest.
35And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.
36And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them: and when he had taken him in his arms, he said unto them,
37Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me.
38And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad him, because he followeth not us.
39But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me.
40For he that is not against us is on our part.
41For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward.
The Synaxarion:
January 21
Memory of our venerable Father Maximos the Confessor (580-662)
The holy Martyr Neophytos (beginning the fourth century)
The sublime Maximos was born in Constantinople in 580 into a noble family during the reign of Tiberius I Constantine (578-582). Under Heraclius he held the position of First Secretary and Imperial Counsellor. Around 613-614, he abandoned the honors of his age and entered a monastery in Chrysopolis (Scutari). The Persians having invaded Chrysopolis in 626, he took refuge in Africa in company with Saint Sophronios, the future Patriarch of Jerusalem. Inflamed by divine zeal as by a fire, he went to Rome in 646 and urged Pope Saint Martin I to gather a local council to condemn the leaders of the ungodly Monothelite heresy (649). In order to refute these heretics, he composed some treaties and letters exposing the arguments and scriptural texts which supported the truth of the Orthodox faith. He circulated his writings throughout the world. He was seized in Rome in 653 and was obliged to appear before Paul II, the Patriarch of Constantinople, and Pyrrhus, the ex-patriarch--both partisans of the heresy of Emperor Constans II (641-668). He was condemned and sent to the fortress of Byzya in Thrace in 655, then to Perberes, and from there into exile in the Caucasus in the country of the Lazians where he died in old age on August 13, 662.
It is believed that Saint Neophytos suffered for the faith in Nicaea in Bithynia, during the reign of Emperor Diocletian, at the beginning of the Fourth century.
Fifth Class Feast.
Daily Readings:
Saints/Martyrs/Feasts/Fasts to be observed/commemmorated/celebrated: Memory of our venerable Father Maximos the Confessor (580-662), The holy Martyr Neophytos (beginning the fourth century)
Scriptural Readings:
Friday of the Thirtieth Week after Pentecost
Hebrews 11:8,11-16
King James Version (KJV)
Hebrews 11:8
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8By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
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Hebrews 11:11-16
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11Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
12Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
14For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
15And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
16But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
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Mark 9:33-41
Mark 9:33-41 (King James Version)
33And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way?
34But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest.
35And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.
36And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them: and when he had taken him in his arms, he said unto them,
37Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me.
38And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad him, because he followeth not us.
39But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me.
40For he that is not against us is on our part.
41For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward.
The Synaxarion:
January 21
Memory of our venerable Father Maximos the Confessor (580-662)
The holy Martyr Neophytos (beginning the fourth century)
The sublime Maximos was born in Constantinople in 580 into a noble family during the reign of Tiberius I Constantine (578-582). Under Heraclius he held the position of First Secretary and Imperial Counsellor. Around 613-614, he abandoned the honors of his age and entered a monastery in Chrysopolis (Scutari). The Persians having invaded Chrysopolis in 626, he took refuge in Africa in company with Saint Sophronios, the future Patriarch of Jerusalem. Inflamed by divine zeal as by a fire, he went to Rome in 646 and urged Pope Saint Martin I to gather a local council to condemn the leaders of the ungodly Monothelite heresy (649). In order to refute these heretics, he composed some treaties and letters exposing the arguments and scriptural texts which supported the truth of the Orthodox faith. He circulated his writings throughout the world. He was seized in Rome in 653 and was obliged to appear before Paul II, the Patriarch of Constantinople, and Pyrrhus, the ex-patriarch--both partisans of the heresy of Emperor Constans II (641-668). He was condemned and sent to the fortress of Byzya in Thrace in 655, then to Perberes, and from there into exile in the Caucasus in the country of the Lazians where he died in old age on August 13, 662.
It is believed that Saint Neophytos suffered for the faith in Nicaea in Bithynia, during the reign of Emperor Diocletian, at the beginning of the Fourth century.
Fifth Class Feast.
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