September 17, 2024

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• Afterfeast: Exaltation of the Precious and Life-giving Cross

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

  2 Corinthians 8:16–9:5

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  ¹⁶But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.

  ¹⁷For he indeed accepted our exhortation, but being himself very earnest, he went out to you of his own accord.

  ¹⁸We have sent together with him the brother whose praise in the Good News is known throughout all the assemblies.

  ¹⁹Not only so, but he was also appointed by the assemblies to travel with us in this grace, which is served by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and to show our readiness.

  ²⁰We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us.

  ²¹Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

  ²²We have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.

  ²³As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for you. As for our brothers, they are the apostles of the assemblies, the glory of Christ.

  ²⁴Therefore show the proof of your love to them before the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.

  ¹It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints,

  ²for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to those of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for the past year. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.

  ³But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared,

  ⁴lest by any means, if anyone from Macedonia comes there with me and finds you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) would be disappointed in this confident boasting.

  ⁵I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.

• Gospel

  Luke 3:23–4:1

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  ²³Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years old, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,

  ²⁴the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph,

  ²⁵the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai,

  ²⁶the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Joseph, the son of Judah,

  ²⁷the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri,

  ²⁸the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmodam, the son of Er,

  ²⁹the son of Jose, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi,

  ³⁰the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonan, the son of Eliakim,

  ³¹the son of Melea, the son of Menan, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David,

  ³²the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon,

  ³³the son of Amminadab, the son of Aram, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,

  ³⁴the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

  ³⁵the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah,

  ³⁶the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,

  ³⁷the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan,

  ³⁸the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

  ¹Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Jesus Prayer