August 29, 2026

Events of the day

• Translation of the Icon of Christ Not-Made-by-Hands from Edessa to Constantinople (944)

  Polyeleos rank

• Afterfeast: Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos

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.”

• Epistle · Image

  Colossians 1:12–18

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  ¹²giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

  ¹³who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

  ¹⁴in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.

  ¹⁵He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

  ¹⁶For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him.

  ¹⁷He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

  ¹⁸He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.

• 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.

• Gospel · Image

  Luke 9:51–56, 10:22–24

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  ⁵¹It came to pass, when the days were near that he should be taken up, he intently set his face to go to Jerusalem

  ⁵²and sent messengers before his face. They went and entered into a village of the Samaritans, so as to prepare for him.

  ⁵³They didn’t receive him, because he was traveling with his face set toward Jerusalem.

  ⁵⁴When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them, just as Elijah did?”

  ⁵⁵But he turned and rebuked them, “You don’t know of what kind of spirit you are.

  ⁵⁶For the Son of Man didn’t come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.” They went to another village.

  ²²Turning to the disciples, he said, “All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him.”

  ²³Turning to the disciples, he said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see,

  ²⁴for I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.”

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

Saints and icons

• Christ Acheiropoietos — The Holy Face
• Prayer of the day: Prayer for the departed