July 12, 2027

Events of the day

• Holy, Glorious and All-praised Chief Apostles Peter and Paul

  Great Feast

  Memory of the chief apostles; the Apostles' Fast ends on the eve of this feast.

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

  1 Peter 1:3–9

• Vespers

  1 Peter 1:13–19

• Vespers

  1 Peter 2:11–24

• Matins Gospel

  John 21:15–25

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  ¹⁵So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”

  ¹⁶He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”

  ¹⁷He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.

  ¹⁸Most certainly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself and walked where you wanted to. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you don’t want to go.”

  ¹⁹Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”

  ²⁰Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following. This was the disciple whom Jesus loved, the one who had also leaned on Jesus’ breast at the supper and asked, “Lord, who is going to betray you?”

  ²¹Peter seeing him, said to Jesus, “Lord, what about this man?”

  ²²Jesus said to him, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.”

  ²³This saying therefore went out among the brothers, that this disciple wouldn’t die. Yet Jesus didn’t say to him that he wouldn’t die, but, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?”

  ²⁴This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and wrote these things. We know that his witness is true.

  ²⁵There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself wouldn’t have room for the books that would be written.

• Epistle · Apostles

  2 Corinthians 11:21–12:9

• Epistle

  Romans 9:18–33

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  ¹⁸So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.

  ¹⁹You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”

  ²⁰But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

  ²¹Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

  ²²What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

  ²³and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

  ²⁴us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

  ²⁵As he says also in Hosea, “I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people; and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved.”

  ²⁶“It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’ ”

  ²⁷Isaiah cries concerning Israel, “If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;

  ²⁸for He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth.”

  ²⁹As Isaiah has said before, “Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah.”

  ³⁰What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;

  ³¹but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.

  ³²Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

  ³³even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

• Gospel · Apostles

  Matthew 16:13–19

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  ¹³Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”

  ¹⁴They said, “Some say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.”

  ¹⁵He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”

  ¹⁶Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

  ¹⁷Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

  ¹⁸I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

  ¹⁹I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven; and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.”

• Gospel

  Matthew 11:2–15

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  ²Now when John heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples

  ³and said to him, “Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?”

  ⁴Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John the things which you hear and see:

  ⁵the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

  ⁶Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”

  ⁷As these went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

  ⁸But what did you go out to see? A man in soft clothing? Behold, those who wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses.

  ⁹But why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet.

  ¹⁰For this is he, of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’

  ¹¹Most certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.

  ¹²From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.

  ¹³For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.

  ¹⁴If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come.

  ¹⁵He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

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