Saturday, June 27
Ven. Sampson the Hospitable of Constantinople
Appointed readings
2 passagesEpistle
Romans 6:11–17
11Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
13And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
14For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!
16Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?
17But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.
Gospel
Matthew 8:14–23
14Now when Jesus had come into Peter's house, He saw his wife's mother lying sick with a fever.
15So He touched her hand, and the fever left her. And she arose and served them.
16When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick,
17that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: 'He Himself took our infirmities And bore our sicknesses.'
18And when Jesus saw great multitudes about Him, He gave a command to depart to the other side.
19Then a certain scribe came and said to Him, 'Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.'
20And Jesus said to him, 'Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.'
21Then another of His disciples said to Him, 'Lord, let me first go and bury my father.'
22But Jesus said to him, 'Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.'
23Now when He got into a boat, His disciples followed Him.