August 2, 2026

Events of the day

• Holy Prophet Elijah

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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

• Vespers

  Composite reading — 3 [1] Kings 17.1-23

• Vespers

  Composite reading — 3 [1] Kings 18, 19

• Vespers

  Composite reading — 3 [1] Kings 19.19, 20, 21; 4 [2] Kings 2.1,6-14

• 9th Matins Gospel

  John 20:19–31

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  ¹⁹When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

  ²⁰When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord.

  ²¹Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”

  ²²When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit!

  ²³If you forgive anyone’s sins, they have been forgiven them. If you retain anyone’s sins, they have been retained.”

  ²⁴But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, wasn’t with them when Jesus came.

  ²⁵The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”

  ²⁶After eight days again his disciples were inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the middle, and said, “Peace be to you.”

  ²⁷Then he said to Thomas, “Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be unbelieving, but believing.”

  ²⁸Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”

  ²⁹Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed.”

  ³⁰Therefore Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book;

  ³¹but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

• Epistle

  1 Corinthians 3:9–17

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  ⁹For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

  ¹⁰According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

  ¹¹For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.

  ¹²But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble,

  ¹³each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.

  ¹⁴If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.

  ¹⁵If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

  ¹⁶Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

  ¹⁷If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.

• Epistle · Prophet Elijah

  James 5:10–20

• Gospel

  Matthew 14:22–34

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  ²²Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat, and to go ahead of him to the other side, while he sent the multitudes away.

  ²³After he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into the mountain by himself to pray. When evening had come, he was there alone.

  ²⁴But the boat was now in the middle of the sea, distressed by the waves, for the wind was contrary.

  ²⁵In the fourth watch of the night, Jesus came to them, walking on the sea.

  ²⁶When the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, “It’s a ghost!” and they cried out for fear.

  ²⁷But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, “Cheer up! It is I! Don’t be afraid.”

  ²⁸Peter answered him and said, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the waters.”

  ²⁹He said, “Come!” Peter stepped down from the boat, and walked on the waters to come to Jesus.

  ³⁰But when he saw that the wind was strong, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, “Lord, save me!”

  ³¹Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and said to him, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?”

  ³²When they got up into the boat, the wind ceased.

  ³³Those who were in the boat came and worshiped him, saying, “You are truly the Son of God!”

  ³⁴When they had crossed over, they came to the land of Gennesaret.

• Gospel · Prophet Elijah

  Luke 4:22–30

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  ²²All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

  ²³He said to them, “Doubtless you will tell me this parable, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’ ”

  ²⁴He said, “Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.

  ²⁵But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.

  ²⁶Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

  ²⁷There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.”

  ²⁸They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things.

  ²⁹They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.

  ³⁰But he, passing through the middle of them, went his way.

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Symbol of Faith (Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed)