Wednesday

October 9, 2024

26 September (Old Style) · 16th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

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Events of the day

Repose of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian

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Fasting

Fast day · Wednesday / Friday

Wednesday and Friday: fast without meat, dairy or eggs. Whether fish is allowed depends on the day's feast — check the church calendar.

Meat: not allowed
Dairy & eggs: not allowed
Fish: not specified
Oil: allowed
Wine: allowed

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

1 John 3:21–4:6

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²¹Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;
²²so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
²³This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.
²⁴He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.
¹Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
²By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,
³and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.
⁴You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
⁵They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.
⁶We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
Vespers

1 John 4:11–16
Vespers

1 John 4:20–5:5
Matins Gospel

John 21:15–25

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¹⁵So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”
¹⁶He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”
¹⁷He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
¹⁸Most certainly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself and walked where you wanted to. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you don’t want to go.”
¹⁹Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”
²⁰Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following. This was the disciple whom Jesus loved, the one who had also leaned on Jesus’ breast at the supper and asked, “Lord, who is going to betray you?”
²¹Peter seeing him, said to Jesus, “Lord, what about this man?”
²²Jesus said to him, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.”
²³This saying therefore went out among the brothers, that this disciple wouldn’t die. Yet Jesus didn’t say to him that he wouldn’t die, but, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?”
²⁴This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and wrote these things. We know that his witness is true.
²⁵There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself wouldn’t have room for the books that would be written.
Epistle

Galatians 6:2–10

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²Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
³For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
⁴But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.
⁵For each man will bear his own burden.
⁶But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.
⁷Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
⁸For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
⁹Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.
¹⁰So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.
Epistle · St John

1 John 4:12–19

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¹²No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
¹³By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
¹⁴We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.
¹⁵Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.
¹⁶We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
¹⁷In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so we are in this world.
¹⁸There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.
¹⁹We love him, because he first loved us.
Gospel

Luke 5:33–39

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³³They said to him, “Why do John’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?”
³⁴He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?
³⁵But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days.”
³⁶He also told a parable to them. “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.
³⁷No one puts new wine into old wine skins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.
³⁸But new wine must be put into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.
³⁹No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’ ”
Gospel · St John

John 19:25–27, 21:24–25

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

Saints and icons

Prayer of the day: The Trisagion