October 4, 2025

Events of the day

• Apostle Quadratus; Finding of the relics of St Dimitry of Rostov

  Polyeleos rank

• Leave-taking of the feast: Exaltation of the Precious and Life-giving Cross

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 · Saturday after Elevation

  1 Corinthians 1:26–29

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  ²⁶For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;

  ²⁷but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.

  ²⁸God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist,

  ²⁹that no flesh should boast before God.

• Epistle

  1 Corinthians 14:20–25

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  ²⁰Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

  ²¹In the law it is written, “By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. They won’t even hear me that way, says the Lord.”

  ²²Therefore other languages are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving; but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe.

  ²³If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won’t they say that you are crazy?

  ²⁴But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all.

  ²⁵And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.

• Gospel · Saturday after Elevation

  John 8:21–30

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  ²¹Jesus said therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come.”

  ²²The Jews therefore said, “Will he kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come’?”

  ²³He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

  ²⁴I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

  ²⁵They said therefore to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.

  ²⁶I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world.”

  ²⁷They didn’t understand that he spoke to them about the Father.

  ²⁸Jesus therefore said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.

  ²⁹He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”

  ³⁰As he spoke these things, many believed in him.

• Gospel

  Luke 4:31–36

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  ³¹He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. He was teaching them on the Sabbath day,

  ³²and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with authority.

  ³³In the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,

  ³⁴saying, “Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God!”

  ³⁵Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent, and come out of him!” When the demon had thrown him down in the middle of them, he came out of him, having done him no harm.

  ³⁶Amazement came on all, and they spoke together, one with another, saying, “What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Prayer for the departed