October 10, 2023

Events of the day

• Martyr Callistratus and his companions; St Sabbatius of Solovki

  Polyeleos rank

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

• Epistle

  Philippians 1:8–14

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  ⁸For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

  ⁹This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

  ¹⁰so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

  ¹¹being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

  ¹²Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News,

  ¹³so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ,

  ¹⁴and that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.

• Gospel

  Luke 5:12–16

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  ¹²While he was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man full of leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell on his face, and begged him, saying, “Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean.”

  ¹³He stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, “I want to. Be made clean.” Immediately the leprosy left him.

  ¹⁴He commanded him to tell no one, “But go your way, and show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing according to what Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.”

  ¹⁵But the report concerning him spread much more, and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.

  ¹⁶But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Jesus Prayer