The Morning Offering

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The Morning Offering
Wednesday, November 18 / 5 (Church Calendar)

Saints of the Day:

November 5 / 18. Martyrs Galacteon and his wife Episteme at Emesa. Repose of St. Jonah, Archbishop of Novgorod. ApostlesPatrobus, Hermas, Linus, Gaius and Philologus of the Seventy. St. Gregory, Archbishop of Alexandria. Martyrs Domninus,Timothy, Theophilus, Theotimus, Dorotheus, Eupsychius, Carterius, Pamphilius, Agathangelus and Castorus of Palestine Hieromartyr Silvanus, Bishop of Gaza. Repose of Blessed Hilarion, recluse of Troekurovo (1853)

Photo of the Day:

 

 The abbot's cell. (Click to enlarge)

Quote of the Day:

"Fear of God purifies us through awe and self-abasement."

 St. Theognostos

 "On the Practice of the Virtues"

Scripture Readings for the Day:

1 Thessalonians 4:1-12

Plea for Purity

 ¹ Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God; ² for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
³ For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; ⁴ that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, ⁵ not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God; ⁶ that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified. ⁷ For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness. ⁸ Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit.

A Brotherly and Orderly Life

⁹ But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another; ¹⁰ and indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, that you increase more and more; ¹¹ that you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, ¹² that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing.

Luke 11:42-46

⁴² "But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass by justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone. ⁴³ Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces. ⁴⁴ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like graves which are not seen, and the men who walk over them are not aware of them."
⁴⁵ Then one of the lawyers answered and said to Him, "Teacher, by saying these things You reproach us also."
⁴⁶ And He said, "Woe to you also, lawyers! For you load men with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.