October 3, 2031

Events of the day

• Great-martyr Eustathius Placidas; Martyrs Prince Michael of Chernigov and his boyar Theodore

  Polyeleos rank

• Afterfeast: Exaltation of the Precious and Life-giving Cross

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

  Ephesians 6:18–24

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  ¹⁸with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

  ¹⁹on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,

  ²⁰for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

  ²¹But that you also may know my affairs, how I am doing, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will make known to you all things.

  ²²I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know our state and that he may comfort your hearts.

  ²³Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

  ²⁴Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.

• Gospel

  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: Short penitential prayers