Tuesday

June 24, 2025

11 June (Old Style) · 3rd week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

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Month calendar

Events of the day

Apostles Bartholomew and Barnabas

Polyeleos rank

Fasting

Fast day · Apostles' Fast

Apostles' Fast, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday: fish is allowed.

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

By the Typikon (ch. 33) Tuesday and Thursday of the Apostles' and Nativity Fasts call for oil and wine only, fish only for a saint with a polyeleos; lay practice per the ROC calendar allows fish.

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 Peter 1:3–9
Vespers

1 Peter 1:13–19
Vespers

1 Peter 2:11–24
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

Romans 7:14–8:2

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¹⁴For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
¹⁵For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
¹⁶But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
¹⁷So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
¹⁸For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.
¹⁹For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.
²⁰But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
²¹I find then the law that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
²²For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,
²³but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
²⁴What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
²⁵I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law.
¹There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
²For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
Epistle · Apostles

Acts 11:19–26, 29–30

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¹⁹They therefore who were scattered abroad by the oppression that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only.
²⁰But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus.
²¹The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.
²²The report concerning them came to the ears of the assembly which was in Jerusalem. They sent out Barnabas to go as far as Antioch,
²³who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.
²⁴For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord.
²⁵Barnabas went out to Tarsus to look for Saul.
²⁶When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
²⁹As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;
³⁰which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
Gospel

Matthew 10:9–15

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⁹Don’t take any gold, silver, or brass in your money belts.
¹⁰Take no bag for your journey, neither two coats, nor sandals, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.
¹¹Into whatever city or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy; and stay there until you go on.
¹²As you enter into the household, greet it.
¹³If the household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn’t worthy, let your peace return to you.
¹⁴Whoever doesn’t receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet.
¹⁵Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.
Gospel · Apostles

Luke 10:16–21

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¹⁶Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”
¹⁷The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”
¹⁸He said to them, “I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven.
¹⁹Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.
²⁰Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
²¹In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”

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

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Prayer of the day: The Jesus Prayer