Satan Really working Overtime Right now

Saints, Feasts, and Readings for 10/11/2026 Saints and Feasts: Sunday of the 7th Ecumenical Council; Philip of the 7 Deacons; Theophanes the Confessor; Martyrs Zenais and Philonilla; Nectarios, Arsakios, Sisinios and Philotheos; Abbess Ethelburga of Barking; Righteous Kenneth of Ireland Tone Two Eothinon 8 Matins Gospel Reading: John 20:11-18 At that time, Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb, and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus has lain, one at the head and one at the feet. They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him." Saying this, she turned round and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom do you seek?" Supposing Him to be the gardener, she said to Him, "Sir, if you have carried Him away, tell me where you have laid Him, and I will take Him away." Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned and said to Him in Hebrew, "Rabboni," which means Teacher. Jesus said to her, "Do not touch Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God." Mary Magdalene went and said to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord," and she told them that He had said these things to her. Epistle Reading: Titus 3:8-15 Titus, my son, the saying is sure. I desire you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to apply themselves to good deeds; these are excellent and profitable to men. But avoid stupid controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels over the law, for they are unprofitable and futile. As for a man who is factious, after admonishing him once or twice, have nothing more to do with him, knowing that such a person is perverted and sinful; he is self-condemned. When I send Artemas or Tychicos to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there. Do your best to speed Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way; see that they lack nothing. And let our people learn to apply themselves to good deeds, so as to help cases of urgent need, and not to be unfruitful.

Saints, Feasts, and Readings for 10/09/2026 Saints and Feasts: James the Apostle, son of Alphaeus; Andronicus and Athanasia; Martyr Poplia; Abraham and Lot Strict Fast Epistle Reading: I Corinthians 4:9-16 Brethren, God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men. We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill-clad and buffeted and homeless, and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become, and are now, as the refuse of the world, the off-scouring of all things. I do not write this to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. I urge you, then, be imitators of me. Gospel Reading: Matthew 9:36-38; 10:1-8 At that time, when Jesus saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest." And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every infirmity. The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaios, and Lebbaeos called Thaddaios; Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. These twelve Jesus sent out, charging them, "Go nowhere among the Gentiles, and enter no town of the Samaritans, but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And preach as you go, saying, 'The kingdom of heaven is at hand.' Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying, give without pay."

I'm being baptized in the Eastern Orthodox Church Saturday October 24th. I've been a Catechumen for almost a year. I've picked St. Gabriel the Archangel as my Patron Saint. I'm so excited yet so scared. I have so much to confess to my priest that is so shameful. Pray that I have the strength to resist sin and to confess my sins without shame and condemnation. My girlfriend and I have been struggling with lust also, that's not good and I'm asking for prayers in that regard.

I want to ask something real from this community today. Tensions along the Baltic have been rising, and where I live, that's not a headline, it's close to home. I'm asking you to actually pray, not just acknowledge this and scroll past it. Pray for peace to hold over the Baltic States. Pray for wisdom over the leaders making decisions right now. Pray for protection over the people here, the families, the ordinary lives that don't get a say in any of this. I'm not posting this for sympathy. I'm posting it because this is a real brotherhood, and that means we carry real things for each other, not just motivation and content. If you've got five minutes today, bring this before God. That's all I'm asking.