Julian Calendar Daily Orthodox Readings

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Kindling thy heart with divine fire,/ thou didst utterly reduce the fire of the passions to ashes,/ O God-bearing martyr Laurence,/ thou confirmation of athletes;/ and in the midst of thy sufferings thou didst cry out with faith:// Nothing can separate me from the love of Christ!

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11th Week after Pentecost. Tone one.

1Holy Martyrs Archdeacon Laurence and Pope Sixtus, Felicissimus and Agapitus, deacons, and others with them (258).

The Scripture Readings
1 Corinthians 1:3-9.
Matthew 19:3-12 🧵

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Troparion, in Tone IV —
In his suffering, O Lord,/ Thy martyr Laurence received an imperishable crown from Thee our God;/ for, possessed of Thy might,/ he set at nought the tormentors and crushed the feeble audacity of the demons.// By his supplications save Thou our souls.

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28 For wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered together.

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17 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house.
18 And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes.
19 But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!

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26 Therefore if they say to you, 'Look, He is in the desert!' do not go out; or 'Look, He is in the inner rooms!' do not believe it.
27 For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

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15 Therefore when you see the 'abomination of desolation,' spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (whoever reads, let him understand),
16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

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Thursday of the 11th Week After Pentecost, August 8, 2025

Dormition fast

Epistle and Gospel reading 🧵

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Matthew 24:13-28 (Gospel)
13 But he who endures to the end shall be saved.
14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.