Scripture readings for the feast of the Holy Apostle Thaddaeus on 21 August 2021, the 9th Saturday after Pentecost, during the Afterfeast of the Dormition of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary.
On this day, we also commemorate the Holy Martyr Bassa and Her Sons: Theognis, Agapius, and Pistus; and Athanasios Patelaros, Patriarch of Constantinople.
Scripture readings for the day according to the Orthodox Christian lectionary, from The Ambigua.
A reading from Saint Paul's letter to the Romans:
Brethren, he who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. He also who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; while he who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord, and gives thanks to God. None of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
A reading from the gospel according to Saint Mark:
At that time, Jesus went up on the mountain, and called to him those whom he desired; and they came to him. And he appointed twelve, to be with him, and to be sent out to preach and have authority to cast out demons: Simon whom he surnamed Peter; James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James, whom he surnamed Boanerges, that is, sons of thunder; Andrew and Philip and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaios, and Thaddaios, and Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. Then he went home; and the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat. And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for people were saying, "He is beside himself."