November 18, 2029

Events of the day

• Martyrs Galaction and Episteme; St Jonah, Archbishop of Novgorod

  Commemoration

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 · Unmercenaries

  Isaiah 43:9–14

• Vespers · Unmercenaries

  Wisdom of Solomon 3:1–9

• Vespers · Unmercenaries

  Wisdom of Solomon 5:15–6:3

• 3rd Matins Gospel

  Mark 16:9–20

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  ⁹Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.

  ¹⁰She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept.

  ¹¹When they heard that he was alive, and had been seen by her, they disbelieved.

  ¹²After these things he was revealed in another form to two of them, as they walked, on their way into the country.

  ¹³They went away and told it to the rest. They didn’t believe them, either.

  ¹⁴Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn’t believe those who had seen him after he had risen.

  ¹⁵He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

  ¹⁶He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

  ¹⁷These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages;

  ¹⁸they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

  ¹⁹So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

  ²⁰They went out, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.

• Epistle

  Ephesians 4:1–6

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  ¹I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

  ²with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

  ³being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

  ⁴There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling,

  ⁵one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

  ⁶one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all, and in us all.

• Epistle · Unmercenaries

  1 Corinthians 12:27–13:8

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  ²⁷Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

  ²⁸God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.

  ²⁹Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all miracle workers?

  ³⁰Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with various languages? Do all interpret?

  ³¹But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.

  ¹If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

  ²If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

  ³If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

  ⁴Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

  ⁵doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

  ⁶doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

  ⁷bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

  ⁸Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

• Gospel

  Luke 8:41–56

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  ⁴¹Behold, a man named Jairus came. He was a ruler of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus’ feet, and begged him to come into his house,

  ⁴²for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as he went, the multitudes pressed against him.

  ⁴³A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians and could not be healed by any

  ⁴⁴came behind him, and touched the fringe of his cloak. Immediately the flow of her blood stopped.

  ⁴⁵Jesus said, “Who touched me?” When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, “Master, the multitudes press and jostle you, and you say, ‘Who touched me?’”

  ⁴⁶But Jesus said, “Someone did touch me, for I perceived that power has gone out of me.”

  ⁴⁷When the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared to him in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.

  ⁴⁸He said to her, “Daughter, cheer up. Your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”

  ⁴⁹While he still spoke, one from the ruler of the synagogue’s house came, saying to him, “Your daughter is dead. Don’t trouble the Teacher.”

  ⁵⁰But Jesus hearing it, answered him, “Don’t be afraid. Only believe, and she will be healed.”

  ⁵¹When he came to the house, he didn’t allow anyone to enter in, except Peter, John, James, the father of the child, and her mother.

  ⁵²All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, “Don’t weep. She isn’t dead, but sleeping.”

  ⁵³They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was dead.

  ⁵⁴But he put them all outside, and taking her by the hand, he called, saying, “Child, arise!”

  ⁵⁵Her spirit returned, and she rose up immediately. He commanded that something be given to her to eat.

  ⁵⁶Her parents were amazed, but he commanded them to tell no one what had been done.

• Gospel · Unmercenaries

  Matthew 10:1, 5–8

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  ¹He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness.

  ⁵Jesus sent these twelve out, and commanded them, saying, “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans.

  ⁶Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

  ⁷As you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’

  ⁸Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.

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)