September 10, 2022

Events of the day

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• Afterfeast: Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos

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

• Epistle · Saturday before Elevation

  1 Corinthians 2:6–9

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  ⁶We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.

  ⁷But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

  ⁸which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.

  ⁹But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

• Epistle

  1 Corinthians 2:6–9

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  ⁶We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.

  ⁷But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

  ⁸which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.

  ⁹But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

• Gospel · Saturday before Elevation

  Matthew 10:37–11:1

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  ³⁷He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

  ³⁸He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me.

  ³⁹He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

  ⁴⁰He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.

  ⁴¹He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward.

  ⁴²Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”

  ¹When Jesus had finished directing his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.

• Gospel

  Matthew 22:15–22

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  ¹⁵Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.

  ¹⁶They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you aren’t partial to anyone.

  ¹⁷Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”

  ¹⁸But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test me, you hypocrites?

  ¹⁹Show me the tax money.” They brought to him a denarius.

  ²⁰He asked them, “Whose is this image and inscription?”

  ²¹They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

  ²²When they heard it, they marveled, and left him, and went away.

Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, New Calendar (OCA practice). Text: World English Bible.

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Prayer for the departed