October 24, 2025

Events of the day

• Apostle Philip the Deacon; St Theophanes the Confessor, hymnographer

  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 3:8–19

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  ⁸Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

  ⁹and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

  ¹⁰that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,

  ¹¹if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

  ¹²Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

  ¹³Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

  ¹⁴I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

  ¹⁵Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

  ¹⁶Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let’s walk by the same rule. Let’s be of the same mind.

  ¹⁷Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.

  ¹⁸For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,

  ¹⁹whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

• Gospel

  Luke 9:12–18

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  ¹²The day began to wear away; and the twelve came and said to him, “Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding villages and farms, and lodge, and get food, for we are here in a deserted place.”

  ¹³But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.” They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people.”

  ¹⁴For they were about five thousand men. He said to his disciples, “Make them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”

  ¹⁵They did so, and made them all sit down.

  ¹⁶He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to the sky, he blessed them, broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude.

  ¹⁷They ate and were all filled. They gathered up twelve baskets of broken pieces that were left over.

  ¹⁸As he was praying alone, the disciples were with him, and he asked them, “Who do the multitudes say that I am?”

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Short penitential prayers