Tuesday 14th October 2025
Today we commemorate:
Holy Martyrs Nazarius, Gervasius, Protasius, and Celsius of Milan (1st C). St. Parasceva (Petka) of Epibatima, Thrace, whose relics are in Iasi, Romania (11th C). St. Cosmas the Hagiopolite (8th C). St. Ignatius, metropolitan of Mithymna (1566). St. Nikola Sviatosha, prince of Chernigov and wonderworker of the Kiev Caves (1143).
British Isles and Ireland:
St. Burchard, 1st bishop of Wurzburg, English missionary to Germany (754). St. Manaccus, abbot of Holyhead (6th C).
Philippians 1:8-14; Luke 8:1-3
Readings in bold type are those appointed by the Typikon for use at the Liturgy
Philippians 1:8-14
God is my witness that I long for you all with the compassion of Jesus Christ. And this I pray, that your love may grow stronger and stronger with complete understanding and great insight, that you may discern what is excellent so that you may be pure and faultless for the Day of Christ, filled with the fruits of righteousness through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God. I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that my situation has become an advantage for the furtherance of the Gospel in that my chains have come to be seen throughout the Praetorium and everywhere else as being for Christ, and most of the brothers and sisters in the Lord have taken confidence from my chains and are fearlessly speaking the word with far greater boldness.
Luke 8:1-3
At that time Jesus moved on by town and village, preaching and proclaiming the Gospel of the Kingdom of God. The Twelve were with him, and some of the women who had been healed of diseases and scourges and evil spirits and infirmities: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had come out, and Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others who were providing for him from their resources.