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23rd Week after Pentecost.

Old Style 01 Nov 2025 Julian Calendar

Friday

New Style 14 Nov 2025 Gregorian Calendar

Fasting Day.
Food with vegetable oil.

1 Thess..2:14-19 ✥ Luke.12:2-12 ✥ 1 Cor..12:27-13:8 ✥ Matt..10:1,5-8

Feasts

All-night vigil Agiou Pavlou Monastery New Skete

Feast Day of the Holy Wonderworkers and Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian. Patronal Feast of the kalyve of the Holy Unmercenaries of the New Skete. All-Night Vigil

Feast of the Saint

Feast Day of the Venerable James of Mount Athos and his two disciples James the Deacon and Dionysius the Monk

Feast of the Saint

Feast of hieromartyrs Alexander Smirnov and Theodore Lebedev, Presbyters (1985)

Venerated Saints

Holy Unmercenaries

The Holy Wonderworkers and Unmercenary Physicians Cosmas and Damian and their mother Saint Theodota

Martyrs Cæsarius, Dacius, Savva, Sabinian, Agrippa, Adrian, and Thomas, at Damascus

Martyr Hermenegild the Goth of Spain

Martyrs Kyriaina and Juliana in Cilicia

Holy New Martyr Iakovos of Kastoria and his Two Disciples Iakovos the Deacon and Dionysios the Monk

Bishop Hieromartyr

Simeon of Beth Arsham

Presbyter Hieromartyr

Alexander Smirnov, Presbyter

Presbyter Hieromartyr

Feodor Remizov, Presbyter

Presbyter Hieromartyr

Alexander Shalay, Presbyter

Presbyter Hieromartyr

New Hieromartyr Demetrius (Ovechkin), Priest of Perm

Martyr Elisaveta Samovskaia

1 Thessalonians

2:14 For ye, brethren,* became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus.| For ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:

2:15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:

2:16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

2:17 But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.

2:18 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.

2:19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

Gospel of Luke

12:2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.

12:3 Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

12:4 And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

12:5 But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.

12:6 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?

12:7 But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.

12:8 Also I say unto you,* Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God:

12:9 But he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God.

12:10 And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven.

12:11 And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:

12:12 For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.

1 Corinthians

12:27 Now* ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

12:28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.

12:29 Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?

12:30 Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

12:31 But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.

13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

13:2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

13:3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

13:4 Charity* suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

13:5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

13:6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

13:7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

13:8 Charity never faileth.| But whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

Gospel of Matthew

10:1 And when he* had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.

10:5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:

10:6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

10:7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.

10:8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.

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