Orthodox Daily Readings
Martyrs Eulampius and Eulampia, at Nicomedia, and 200 Martyrs with them (303-311)
Epistle: 1 Corinthians 15:58-16:3
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given orders to the churches of Galatia, so you must do also:
2 On the first day of the week let each one of you lay something aside, storing up as he may prosper, that there be no collections when I come.
3 And when I come, whomever you approve by your letters I will send to bear your gift to Jerusalem.
Gospel: Luke 5:27-32
27 After these things He went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, “Follow Me.”
28 So he left all, rose up, and followed Him.
29 Then Levi gave Him a great feast in his own house. And there were a great number of tax collectors and others who sat down with them.
30 And their scribes and the Pharisees complained against His disciples, saying, “Why do You eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
31 Jesus answered and said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.
32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
Commemorated on this day
Martyrs Eulampius and Eulampia, at Nicomedia, and 200 Martyrs with them (303-311). St. Amphilókhy (Amphilochius), Bishop of Vladimir, Volyn’ (1122). Synaxis of the Saints of Volyn’: Ven. Job of Pochaev, Ss. Stephen and Amphilókhy, Bishops of Vladimir in Volyn’; Hieromartyr Makáry, Archimandrite of Kanev; St. Yaropolk, Prince of Vladimir in Volyn’; Ven. Theodore (in monasticism Theodosius), Prince of Ostrog; and St. Juliana Ol’shánskaya. Bl. Andrew of Tot’ma, Fool-for-Christ (1673). Martyr Theotecnus of Antioch (3rd-4th c.). St. Bassian of Constantinople (5th c.). St. Theophilus the Confessor of Bulgaria (8th c.). Ven. Amvrosy of Optina (1891). Hieromartyr Peter (Polianskii), Metropolitan of Krutitsy (1937—Sept 27th O.S.). The “AKATHIST” Icon of the Mother of God at Zographou (Mt Athos).