Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost "The Legion of Demons and Herd of Swine"

Saint Theophylact of Ochrid

Luke 8:26-39

From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Luke

26-33. And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is across from Galilee. And when He went forth to land, there met Him out of the city a certain man, possessed by demons for a long time, who wore no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs. When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before Him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with Thee, Jesus, Son of God most high? I beseech Thee, torment me not. (For He had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he broke the bands, and was driven by the demon into the wilderness.) And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many demons were entered into him. And he besought Him that He would not command them to go out into the abyss. And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought Him that He would suffer them to enter into them. And He suffered them.

Second Sunday after Pentecost Come Follow Me

Matthew 4:18-23

From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Matthew

by Blessed Theophylact, Archbishop of Ochrid and Bulgaria

First Sunday after Pentecost - Whosoever Shall Confess Me Before Men

Matthew 10:32-33, 37-38; 19:27-30

From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Matthew

by Blessed Theophylact, Archbishop of Ochrid and Bulgaria

First Sunday after Pentecost

Blessed Theophylact, Archbishop of Ochrid and Bulgaria 

Whosoever Shall Confess Me Before Men

Matthew 10:32-33, 37-38; 19:27-30

Ch. 10:32-33. Whosoever therefore shall confess in Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father Who is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father Who is in heaven. He exhorts them to bear witness even unto martyrdom. For belief only within one's soul does not suffice; He desires also the belief confessed with the tongue. He did not say, "Whosoever shall confess Me," but in me, that is, in My strength. For he who confesses does so aided by the grace which is from above. But as for him who denies, Christ did not say "in Me," but whosoever shall deny Me, showing that he denies because he does not have the aid from above. Therefore everyone who confesses that Christ is God will find Christ giving confession of him to the Father, that he is a true servant. But those who deny will hear the words, "I do not know you."

Sixth Sunday of Pascha: Sunday of the Blind Man (John 9:1-38)

by Blessed Theophylact, 
Archbishop of Ochrid and Bulgaria

From the Explanation of the Gospel of St. John,

1–2. And as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from his birth. And His disciples asked Him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? 

Fifth Sunday of Pascha The Samaritan Woman (John 4: 5-42)

From The Explanation of The Gospel of St. John

by Blessed Theophylact, Archbishop of Ochrid and Bulgaria

Fourth Sunday of Pascha
Healing of the Paralytic

John 5:1-15

From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. John

by Blessed Theophylact, Archbishop of Ochrid and Bulgaria

Blessed Theophylact, Archbishop of Ochrid and Bulgaria

Second Sunday after Pentecost

Come Follow Me

Matthew 4:18-23

Saint Theophylact of Ochrid

Third Sunday of Pascha

The Myrrh-bearing Women

Mark 15:43-16:6

Explanation of the Gospel of St. John

by Blessed Theophylact, Archbishop of Ochrid and Bulgaria

The Second Sunday of Pascha -Thomas Sunday