14th Sunday of Luke

Have mercy is a favorite phrase of prayer in the liturgical tradition of the Orthodox Church. Mercy is God's lovingkindness, His tender compassion toward repentant sinners.
(commentary in
The Orthodox Study Bible)



Clement the Hieromartyr & Bishop of Ancyra
January 23
Saint Clement, who was from Ancyra in Galatia, was the son of an unbelieving father, but a believing mother whose name was Sophia. At first he lived as a monk, later he became the bishop of his city. He suffered so many things in confession of the Faith in Christ, that the time of his sufferings and struggles stretched out over a period of twenty-eight years. Finally he and Saint Agathangelos (who was from Rome) were beheaded together during the reign of Diocletian and Maximian, in the year 296.

READING COURTESY OF HOLY TRANSFIGURATION MONASTERY, BROOKLINE, MA