Saturday 21st June 2025
Apostles’ Fast: fish, wine and oil allowed
Today we commemorate:
Hieromartyr Terence, bishop of Iconium (1st C). Holy Martyr Julian of Tarsus in Cilicia (305). New Martyr Nicetas of Nisyros, near Rhodes (1732).
British Isles and Ireland:
St. Mewan (617). St. Corbmac, abbot of Durrow (590). St. Engelmund, abbot and missionary (c.739).
Romans 3:19-26; Matthew 7:1-8
Readings in bold type are those appointed by the Typikon for use at the Liturgy
Romans 3:19-26
We know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law so that every mouth may be stopped and the whole world brought under judgement by God. That is why no one will be made righteous in his sight by the works of the law, because through the law comes knowledge of sin. But now, independently of the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as the law and the prophets bear witness. The righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ is for all. It is indeed for everyone who believes because there is no discrimination, for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, but are accounted righteous freely by his grace, through redemption in Christ Jesus, through faith in the blood of him whom God presented as an atoning sacrifice in order to demonstrate his righteousness by remitting past sins. In God’s patience, as proof of his righteousness because he is just, he now accounts as righteous those who by faith belong to Jesus.
Matthew 7:1-8
The Lord said, ‘Do not judge so that you may not be judged, because you will be judged in the way that you judge others, and the measure you deal out will be dealt to you. How is it that you see the speck in your brother or sister’s eye, but do not notice the beam of timber in your own eye? And yet you will say to your brother or sister, “Let me remove the speck from your eye.” But just look at the beam of timber in your own eye! Hypocrite, first remove the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother or sister’s eye. Do not offer what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls in front of swine, for they will trample them underfoot and then turn and savage you. Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened for you. For everyone who asks, receives; and everyone who seeks, finds; and for everyone who knocks, it will be opened.’