August 8, 2034

Events of the day

• Hieromartyr Hermolaus; Monk-martyr Paraskeva

  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

  Wisdom of Solomon 5:15–6:3

• Vespers

  1 John 4:1–6

• Vespers

  1 John 4:20–5:5

• Matins Gospel

  John 10:9–16

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  ⁹I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.

  ¹⁰The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

  ¹¹I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

  ¹²He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.

  ¹³The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn’t care for the sheep.

  ¹⁴I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;

  ¹⁵even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

  ¹⁶I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

• Epistle

  2 Corinthians 2:14–3:3

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  ¹⁴Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

  ¹⁵For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved and in those who perish:

  ¹⁶to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

  ¹⁷For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

  ¹Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?

  ²You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,

  ³being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

• Epistle · St Jacob

  Philippians 3:7–14

• Gospel

  Matthew 23:23–28

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  ²³“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

  ²⁴You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!

  ²⁵“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.

  ²⁶You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.

  ²⁷“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

  ²⁸Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

• Gospel · St Jacob

  Mark 10:29–31, 42–45

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Jesus Prayer