October 10, 2029

Events of the day

• Martyr Callistratus and his companions; St Sabbatius of Solovki

  Polyeleos rank

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 2:24–30

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  ²⁴But I trust in the Lord that I myself also will come shortly.

  ²⁵But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need,

  ²⁶since he longed for you all, and was very troubled because you had heard that he was sick.

  ²⁷For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.

  ²⁸I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

  ²⁹Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such people in honor,

  ³⁰because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.

• Gospel

  Luke 5:33–39

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  ³³They said to him, “Why do John’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?”

  ³⁴He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?

  ³⁵But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days.”

  ³⁶He also told a parable to them. “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.

  ³⁷No one puts new wine into old wine skins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.

  ³⁸But new wine must be put into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.

  ³⁹No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’ ”

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Trisagion