September 28, 2024

Events of the day

• Great-martyr Nicetas the Goth

  Polyeleos rank

• Afterfeast: Exaltation of the Precious and Life-giving Cross

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 · Saturday after Elevation

  1 Corinthians 1:26–29

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  ²⁶For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;

  ²⁷but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.

  ²⁸God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist,

  ²⁹that no flesh should boast before God.

• Epistle

  1 Corinthians 4:1–5

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  ¹So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.

  ²Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

  ³But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man’s judgment. Yes, I don’t judge my own self.

  ⁴For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

  ⁵Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

• Gospel · Saturday after Elevation

  John 8:21–30

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  ²¹Jesus said therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come.”

  ²²The Jews therefore said, “Will he kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come’?”

  ²³He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

  ²⁴I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

  ²⁵They said therefore to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.

  ²⁶I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world.”

  ²⁷They didn’t understand that he spoke to them about the Father.

  ²⁸Jesus therefore said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.

  ²⁹He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”

  ³⁰As he spoke these things, many believed in him.

• Gospel

  Matthew 23:1–12

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  ¹Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,

  ²saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sat on Moses’ seat.

  ³All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t do their works; for they say, and don’t do.

  ⁴For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.

  ⁵But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,

  ⁶and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues,

  ⁷the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi, Rabbi’ by men.

  ⁸But don’t you be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.

  ⁹Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

  ¹⁰Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ.

  ¹¹But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.

  ¹²Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Prayer for the departed