July 27, 2025

Events of the day

• Apostle Aquila of the Seventy

  Commemoration

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

• Vespers · Fathers

  Genesis 14:14–20

• Vespers · Fathers

  Deuteronomy 1:8–11, 15–17

• Vespers · Fathers

  Deuteronomy 10:14–21

• 7th Matins Gospel

  John 20:1–10

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  ¹Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.

  ²Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have laid him!”

  ³Therefore Peter and the other disciple went out, and they went toward the tomb.

  ⁴They both ran together. The other disciple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first.

  ⁵Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he didn’t enter in.

  ⁶Then Simon Peter came, following him, and entered into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying,

  ⁷and the cloth that had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself.

  ⁸So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in, and he saw and believed.

  ⁹For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

  ¹⁰So the disciples went away again to their own homes.

• Epistle

  Romans 15:1–7

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  ¹Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

  ²Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

  ³For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”

  ⁴For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

  ⁵Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus,

  ⁶that with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  ⁷Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God.

• Epistle · Fathers

  Hebrews 13:7–16

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  ⁷Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

  ⁸Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

  ⁹Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

  ¹⁰We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.

  ¹¹For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside of the camp.

  ¹²Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.

  ¹³Let’s therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.

  ¹⁴For we don’t have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.

  ¹⁵Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.

  ¹⁶But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

• Gospel

  Matthew 9:27–35

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  ²⁷As Jesus passed by from there, two blind men followed him, calling out and saying, “Have mercy on us, son of David!”

  ²⁸When he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They told him, “Yes, Lord.”

  ²⁹Then he touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith be it done to you.”

  ³⁰Their eyes were opened. Jesus strictly commanded them, saying, “See that no one knows about this.”

  ³¹But they went out and spread abroad his fame in all that land.

  ³²As they went out, behold, a mute man who was demon possessed was brought to him.

  ³³When the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke. The multitudes marveled, saying, “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!”

  ³⁴But the Pharisees said, “By the prince of the demons, he casts out demons.”

  ³⁵Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

• Gospel · Fathers

  John 17:1–13

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  ¹Jesus said these things, then lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;

  ²even as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

  ³This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

  ⁴I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.

  ⁵Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.

  ⁶I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.

  ⁷Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you,

  ⁸for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

  ⁹I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.

  ¹⁰All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.

  ¹¹I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

  ¹²While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

  ¹³But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Symbol of Faith (Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed)