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The Festival of St. Simon and St. Jude, Apostles

Posted on October 28, 2025 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: St. John 15:17-21 (NKJV)   15:17 “These things I command you, that you love one another.   18 “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world,…

The Monday after the Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity Sunday

Posted on October 27, 2025 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: Colossians 3:1-10 (NKJV)   3:1 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God….

The Saturday after the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity Sunday

Posted on October 25, 2025 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: Proverbs 14:21-31 (NKJV)   14:21 He who despises his neighbor sins; But he who has mercy on the poor, happy is he.   22 Do they not go astray who devise evil? But mercy and truth belong to those who devise good.   23 In all labor there is profit, but idle chatter leads…

The Friday after the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity Sunday

Posted on October 24, 2025 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: James 3:13-18 (NKJV)   3:13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. 15 This wisdom does not descend…

The Thursday after the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity Sunday

Posted on October 23, 2025 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: 3 John 2-8 (NKJV)   2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers. 3 For I rejoiced greatly when brethren came and testified of the truth that is in you, just as you walk in the truth. 4 I have no greater…

The Wednesday after the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity Sunday

Posted on October 22, 2025 by Pastor Dulas in Blog
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Scripture: Deuteronomy 30:11-20 (NKJV)   30:11 “For this commandment which I command you today is not too mysterious for you, nor is it far off. 12 It is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will ascend into heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’…

The Tuesday after the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity Sunday

Posted on October 21, 2025 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: Deuteronomy 10:12-21 (NKJV)   10:12 “And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 and to keep the…

The Monday after the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity Sunday

Posted on October 20, 2025 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: St. John 15:1-7 (NKJV)   15:1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already clean because of the word which…

The Festival of St. Luke, Evangelist

Posted on October 18, 2025 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: 2 Timothy 4:5-11 (NKJV)   4:5 But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.   6 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. 7 I have fought the good fight, I…

The Festival of St. Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop and Martyr

Posted on October 17, 2025 by Pastor Dulas in Devotions
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Scripture: John 12:24-26 (NKJV)   12:24 “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain. 25 He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it…