July 14, 2024

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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

• Vespers · Fathers

  Genesis 14:14–20

• Vespers · Fathers

  Deuteronomy 1:8–11, 15–17

• Vespers · Fathers

  Deuteronomy 10:14–21

• 3rd Matins Gospel

  Mark 16:9–20

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  ⁹Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.

  ¹⁰She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept.

  ¹¹When they heard that he was alive, and had been seen by her, they disbelieved.

  ¹²After these things he was revealed in another form to two of them, as they walked, on their way into the country.

  ¹³They went away and told it to the rest. They didn’t believe them, either.

  ¹⁴Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn’t believe those who had seen him after he had risen.

  ¹⁵He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

  ¹⁶He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

  ¹⁷These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages;

  ¹⁸they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

  ¹⁹So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

  ²⁰They went out, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.

• Epistle

  Romans 5:1–10

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  ¹Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

  ²through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

  ³Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

  ⁴and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:

  ⁵and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

  ⁶For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

  ⁷For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.

  ⁸But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

  ⁹Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.

  ¹⁰For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

• Epistle · Fathers

  Hebrews 13:7–16

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  ⁷Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

  ⁸Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

  ⁹Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

  ¹⁰We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.

  ¹¹For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside of the camp.

  ¹²Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.

  ¹³Let’s therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.

  ¹⁴For we don’t have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.

  ¹⁵Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.

  ¹⁶But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

• Gospel

  Matthew 6:22–33

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  ²²“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

  ²³But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

  ²⁴“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

  ²⁵Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

  ²⁶See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?

  ²⁷“Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?

  ²⁸Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin,

  ²⁹yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.

  ³⁰But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?

  ³¹“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’

  ³²For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

  ³³But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

• Gospel · Fathers

  John 17:1–13

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  ¹Jesus said these things, then lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;

  ²even as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

  ³This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

  ⁴I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.

  ⁵Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.

  ⁶I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.

  ⁷Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you,

  ⁸for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

  ⁹I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.

  ¹⁰All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.

  ¹¹I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

  ¹²While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

  ¹³But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Symbol of Faith (Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed)