September 7, 2024

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• Forefeast: 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 1:3–9

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  ³Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

  ⁴I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;

  ⁵that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;

  ⁶even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

  ⁷so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

  ⁸who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  ⁹God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

• 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 19:3–12

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  ³Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

  ⁴He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

  ⁵and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’

  ⁶So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

  ⁷They asked him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a certificate of divorce, and divorce her?”

  ⁸He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

  ⁹I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

  ¹⁰His disciples said to him, “If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.”

  ¹¹But he said to them, “Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given.

  ¹²For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.”

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