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July 4, 2009
Fifth Week after Pentecost
Independence Day USA
O Lord, we Your servants are
grateful for the benefits You have bestowed upon us. Glorifying You, we
praise and bless You. We give thanks to You and we sing hymns to You.
Extolling Your loving kindness we cry out to You: “Glory be to You, our
Benefactor and Savior!”
(Troparion of Thanksgiving) |
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Today's Scripture |
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Hebrews 12:14-17 - Strive for peace with all men, and for the
holiness without which no one will see the Lord. See to it that no one
fail to obtain the grace of God; that no "root of bitterness" spring up
and cause trouble, and by it the many become defiled; that no one be
immoral or irreligious like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single
meal. For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the
blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he
sought it with tears. |
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John 8:34-38 - Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I say to you,
every one who commits sin is a slave to sin. The slave does not continue
in the house for ever; the son continues for ever. So if the Son makes
you free, you will be free indeed. I know that you are descendants of
Abraham; yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.
I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have
heard from your father."
(RSV) |
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Today's Saints |
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July 4 - Independence Day USA,
Saint Andrew, Archbishop of Crete, author of the Great Canon; Venerable
Martha, mother of Saint Symeon Stylites the Younger; Holy Royal Martyrs
of Russia: Tsar Nicholas II, Tsaritsa Alexandra, Crown Prince Alexis,
and Grand-duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia, and those
martyred with them; Hieromartyr Theodore, Bishop of Cyrene in Libya, and
with him Martyrs Cyprilla, Aroa, and Lucia; Martyrs Theodotus and
Theodota at Caesarea in Cappadocia; Saints Tikhon, Basil, and Nicon,
monks of Solovki; Saint Andrew the Russian of Cairo; Saint Andrew Rublev,
iconographer; New-Martyr Hieromonk Nilus of Poltava; Saint Asclepias the
Wonder-worker; Hieromartyr Theophilus; Saint Menignus, monk; Hieromartyr
Theodotus; Saint Donatus of Libya, Bishop; Hieromartyr Sava of Gornji
Karlovac; Saint Ulric, Bishop of Augsburg; repose of Schema-hieromonk
John, founder of Sarov Monastery; opening of the relics of Saint
Euthymius, archimandrite of Suzdal; burial of Saint Andrew, prince of
Bogoliubsk; translation of the relics of Saint Martin of Tours |
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