September 6, 2025

Events of the day

• Hieromartyr Eutychius; Translation of the relics of St Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow

  Polyeleos rank

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

  1 Corinthians 2:6–9

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  ⁶We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.

  ⁷But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

  ⁸which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.

  ⁹But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

• Gospel

  Matthew 22:15–22

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  ¹⁵Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.

  ¹⁶They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you aren’t partial to anyone.

  ¹⁷Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”

  ¹⁸But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test me, you hypocrites?

  ¹⁹Show me the tax money.” They brought to him a denarius.

  ²⁰He asked them, “Whose is this image and inscription?”

  ²¹They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

  ²²When they heard it, they marveled, and left him, and went away.

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Prayer for the departed