February 8, 2025

Events of the day

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• Afterfeast: Meeting of the Lord in the Temple

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 Timothy 2:11–19

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  ¹¹This saying is trustworthy: “For if we died with him, we will also live with him.

  ¹²If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.

  ¹³If we are faithless, he remains faithful; for he can’t deny himself.”

  ¹⁴Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

  ¹⁵Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

  ¹⁶But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness,

  ¹⁷and those words will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus:

  ¹⁸men who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and overthrowing the faith of some.

  ¹⁹However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

• Gospel

  Luke 18:2–8

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  ²saying, “There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God, and didn’t respect man.

  ³A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, ‘Defend me from my adversary!’

  ⁴He wouldn’t for a while, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,

  ⁵yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.’ ”

  ⁶The Lord said, “Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.

  ⁷Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

  ⁸I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”

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

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• Prayer of the day: Prayer for the departed