November 15, 2020

Events of the day

• Martyrs Acindynus, Pegasius, Aphthonius, Elpidephorus and Anempodistus

  Commemoration

Fasting

No fast

No fast today.

Food rules are reference church information. Agree your personal measure of fasting with a priest; consult a doctor if you are ill.

Readings of the day

• Vespers · Unmercenaries

  Isaiah 43:9–14

• Vespers · Unmercenaries

  Wisdom of Solomon 3:1–9

• Vespers · Unmercenaries

  Wisdom of Solomon 5:15–6:3

• 1st Matins Gospel

  Matthew 28:16–20

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  ¹⁶But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had sent them.

  ¹⁷When they saw him, they bowed down to him, but some doubted.

  ¹⁸Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

  ¹⁹Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

  ²⁰teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

• Epistle

  Ephesians 2:4–10

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  ⁴But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

  ⁵even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

  ⁶and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

  ⁷that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;

  ⁸for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

  ⁹not of works, that no one would boast.

  ¹⁰For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

• Epistle · Unmercenaries

  1 Corinthians 12:27–13:8

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  ²⁷Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

  ²⁸God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.

  ²⁹Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all miracle workers?

  ³⁰Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with various languages? Do all interpret?

  ³¹But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.

  ¹If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

  ²If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

  ³If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

  ⁴Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

  ⁵doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

  ⁶doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

  ⁷bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

  ⁸Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

• Gospel

  Luke 8:26–39

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  ²⁶They arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee.

  ²⁷When Jesus stepped ashore, a certain man out of the city who had demons for a long time met him. He wore no clothes, and didn’t live in a house, but in the tombs.

  ²⁸When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, “What do I have to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don’t torment me!”

  ²⁹For Jesus was commanding the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For the unclean spirit had often seized the man. He was kept under guard, and bound with chains and fetters. Breaking the bonds apart, he was driven by the demon into the desert.

  ³⁰Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He said, “Legion,” for many demons had entered into him.

  ³¹They begged him that he would not command them to go into the abyss.

  ³²Now there was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain, and they begged him that he would allow them to enter into those. Then he allowed them.

  ³³The demons came out of the man, and entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned.

  ³⁴When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the city and in the country.

  ³⁵People went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.

  ³⁶Those who saw it told them how he who had been possessed by demons was healed.

  ³⁷All the people of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were very much afraid. Then he entered into the boat and returned.

  ³⁸But the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him that he might go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,

  ³⁹“Return to your house, and declare what great things God has done for you.” He went his way, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.

• Gospel · Unmercenaries

  Matthew 10:1, 5–8

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  ¹He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness.

  ⁵Jesus sent these twelve out, and commanded them, saying, “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans.

  ⁶Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

  ⁷As you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’

  ⁸Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.

Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, Julian calendar. Text: World English Bible.

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Symbol of Faith (Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed)