2024

On Tuesday | December 31

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The Readings from the Regular Cycle

The Epistle

Tuesday of the 28th Week

The reading is from Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy.

2 Tim. 3:16 – 17; 4:1 – 4

Timothy, my son, all scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. I charge you in the presence of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths. [RSV]

The Gospel

Tuesday of the 16th Week of Luke

The reading is from the holy Gospel according to Mark.

Mk. 12:18 – 27

At that time, Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, came to Jesus; and they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man must take the wife, and raise up children for his brother. There were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and when he died left no children; and the second took her, and died, leaving no children; and the third likewise; and the seven took her and left no children. Last of all the woman also died. In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife.” Jesus said to them, “Is not this why you are wrong, that you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God? For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living; you are quite wrong.” [RSV]

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Stand for the reading of the Synaxarion.

Synaxarion

From the Menaion.

On December 31, we commemorate our devout mother Melania the Roman.

By the intercessions of Your Saints, O God, have mercy on us and save us. Amen.

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Fasting Rule

Fast Free: All foods allowed.

It is the ru.Twelve Days of Christmas