September 1, 2025

Events of the day

• Martyr Andrew Stratelates and the 2,593 with him

  Commemoration

• Afterfeast: Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos

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

  2 Corinthians 8:7–15

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  ⁷But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.

  ⁸I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

  ⁹For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

  ¹⁰I give a judgment in this: for this is expedient for you who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.

  ¹¹But now complete the doing also, that as there was the readiness to be willing, so there may be the completion also out of your ability.

  ¹²For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.

  ¹³For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,

  ¹⁴but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack; that there may be equality.

  ¹⁵As it is written, “He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack.”

• Gospel

  Mark 3:6–12

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  ⁶The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

  ⁷Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea,

  ⁸from Jerusalem, from Idumaea, beyond the Jordan, and those from around Tyre and Sidon. A great multitude, hearing what great things he did, came to him.

  ⁹He spoke to his disciples that a little boat should stay near him because of the crowd, so that they wouldn’t press on him.

  ¹⁰For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on him that they might touch him.

  ¹¹The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, “You are the Son of God!”

  ¹²He sternly warned them that they should not make him known.

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Morning prayer of St Macarius the Great