October 15, 2025

Events of the day

• Hieromartyr Cyprian and Martyr Justina; Blessed Andrew the Fool-for-Christ

  Commemoration

Fasting

Fast day · Wednesday / Friday

Wednesday and Friday: fast without meat, dairy or eggs. Whether fish is allowed depends on the day's feast — check the church calendar.

• Meat: not allowed
• Dairy & eggs: not allowed
• Fish: not specified
• Oil: allowed
• Wine: allowed

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

  Philippians 1:12–20

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  ¹²Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News,

  ¹³so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ,

  ¹⁴and that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.

  ¹⁵Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.

  ¹⁶The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

  ¹⁷but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.

  ¹⁸What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.

  ¹⁹For I know that this will turn out to my salvation, through your prayers and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

  ²⁰according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

• Gospel

  Luke 6:46–7:1

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  ⁴⁶“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?

  ⁴⁷Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.

  ⁴⁸He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.

  ⁴⁹But he who hears, and doesn’t do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”

  ¹After he had finished speaking in the hearing of the people, he entered into Capernaum.

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Trisagion