August 8, 2035

Events of the day

• Hieromartyr Hermolaus; Monk-martyr Paraskeva

  Commemoration

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

• 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

  1 Corinthians 10:12–22

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  ¹²Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.

  ¹³No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

  ¹⁴Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

  ¹⁵I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.

  ¹⁶The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ?

  ¹⁷Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.

  ¹⁸Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don’t those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?

  ¹⁹What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

  ²⁰But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don’t desire that you would have fellowship with demons.

  ²¹You can’t both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.

  ²²Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

• Epistle · St Jacob

  Philippians 3:7–14

• Gospel

  Matthew 16:20–24

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  ²⁰Then he commanded the disciples that they should tell no one that he was Jesus the Christ.

  ²¹From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.

  ²²Peter took him aside, and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This will never be done to you.”

  ²³But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”

  ²⁴Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

• 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 Trisagion