June 26, 2025

Events of the day

• Martyr Aquilina; St Triphyllius, Bishop of Leucosia in Cyprus

  Commemoration

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

• Epistle

  Romans 8:22–27

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  ²²For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

  ²³Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

  ²⁴For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?

  ²⁵But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

  ²⁶In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

  ²⁷He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.

• Gospel

  Matthew 10:23–31

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  ²³But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man has come.

  ²⁴“A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord.

  ²⁵It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!

  ²⁶Therefore don’t be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed; and hidden that will not be known.

  ²⁷What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.

  ²⁸Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

  ²⁹“Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father’s will,

  ³⁰but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

  ³¹Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Prayer to the Holy Spirit “O Heavenly King”