NOV 16: CONFESSION – 8:30 AM, DIVINE LITURGY – 9:00 AM (LIVE-STREAMED), EASTERN CHRISTIAN FORMATION – 10:15 AM, DIVINE LITURGY – 11:00 AM.
NOTE: Today we also commemorate the Holy Apostle and Evangelist Matthew. Please see next post for additional information about him.
PROPERS: 11-16-25_Sunday_DL
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BYZIKIDS 2027 – MY JOURNEY THROUGH THE NATIVITY FAST:
God With Us On-line Catechetal Reflection for The Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost (from November 14, 2021): https://godwithusonline.org/reflections/the-twenty-fifth-sunday-after-pentecost-ruthenian/
God With Us On-line Catechetal Reflection for The Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost (from November 13, 2022): https://godwithusonline.org/reflections/the-twenty-third-sunday-after-pentecost-ruthenian/
God With Us November Reflection: Run to the Hem of Christ (from November 14, 2021): November-Reflection-Run-to-the-Hem-of-Christ
We have 2 Gospel Readings for this Sunday. The first, Gospel Reading is Luke 10:25-37, The Parable of the Good Samaritan, and the second, is in commemoration of the Apostle Matthew, and it is Matthew 9: 9-13. In the first Gospel Reading, the Samaritan is the one who recognized that when it comes to the question of who is our neighbor, there are no rules. Our neighbor is anyone in need. This parable teaches the value of earning one’s salvation. The standard, perfect love, holds up a moral level for which to strive and it attacks prejudices.
In the Gospel Reading for Matthew, we read about the Calling of Matthew, a tax collector, by Jesus to follow Him. The Gospel is as follows from the Bible: “9 As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him. 10 While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” 12 On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 13 But go and learn what this means:‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
