Wednesday 29th October 2025
Fast day: strict fast
Today we commemorate:
Virgin-Martyr Anastasia the Roman and Holy Martyr Cyril (256). St. Abramius the Recluse (360), and his niece, St. Mary of Mesopotamia (397). New Martyr Athanasius of Sparta, at Muatanach (1653). New Martyr Timothy of Esphigmenou Monastery, Mt. Athos (1820). St. Abramius, archimandrite of Rostov (Valaam) (1073). St. Serapion of Zarzmeli, Georgia (900).
British Isles and Ireland:
St. Kennara, hermitess of Kirk Kinner, Galloway (5th C). St. Colman, abbot-founder of Kilmacduagh (632).
Colossians 1:18-23; Luke 11:9-13
Readings in bold type are those appointed by the Typikon for use at the Liturgy
Colossians 1:18-23
Brothers and sisters, Christ is the head of the body, the Church. He is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, so that in all things he may have first place. For in him the whole Fullness was pleased to dwell, and through him, having made peace with the blood of his cross, he reconciled everything to himself, whether on earth or in the heavens. Yet there was a time when you were alienated, hostile in attitude and doing evil. But now he has reconciled you through the body of his flesh, through death, to present you holy and without blemish and blameless before him, provided that you continue grounded and immovable in the faith without shifting from the hope of the Gospel that you heard, which was proclaimed to all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.
Luke 11:9-13
The Lord said to his disciples, ‘I tell you, ask and it will be given to you; search and you will find; knock and it will be opened for you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who searches, finds; and to anyone who knocks it will be opened. And what father among you, if a son asks for a loaf, would offer him a stone? Or if it is a fish, would offer him a snake instead of a fish? Or if he asks for an egg, would offer him a scorpion? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the good Spirit to those who ask him.’