July 12, 2034

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

Fast day · Wednesday / Friday

A great feast on Wednesday or Friday: fish is allowed.

• Meat: not allowed
• Dairy & eggs: not allowed
• Fish: allowed
• 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

• 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

  1 Corinthians 7:12–24

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  ¹²But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.

  ¹³The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.

  ¹⁴For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

  ¹⁵Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

  ¹⁶For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

  ¹⁷Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

  ¹⁸Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

  ¹⁹Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

  ²⁰Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.

  ²¹Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

  ²²For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.

  ²³You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men.

  ²⁴Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.

• 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 14:35–15:11

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  ³⁵When the people of that place recognized him, they sent into all that surrounding region, and brought to him all who were sick;

  ³⁶and they begged him that they might just touch the fringe of his garment. As many as touched it were made whole.

  ¹Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying,

  ²“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”

  ³He answered them, “Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

  ⁴For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

  ⁵But you say, ‘Whoever may tell his father or his mother, “Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,”

  ⁶he shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.

  ⁷You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

  ⁸‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

  ⁹And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’ ”

  ¹⁰He summoned the multitude, and said to them, “Hear, and understand.

  ¹¹That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”

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