October 11, 2022

Events of the day

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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

• Gospel

  Luke 8:1–3

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  ¹Soon afterwards, he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of God’s Kingdom. With him were the twelve,

  ²and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out;

  ³and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod’s steward; Susanna; and many others; who served them from their possessions.

• Epistle

  Ephesians 5:20–26

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  ²⁰giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

  ²¹subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

  ²²Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

  ²³For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

  ²⁴But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

  ²⁵Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

  ²⁶that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Jesus Prayer