September 28, 2025

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

• Vespers

  Wisdom of Solomon 5:15–6:3

• Vespers

  Wisdom of Solomon 3:1–9

• Vespers

  Wisdom of Solomon 4:7–15

• 5th Matins Gospel

  Luke 24:12–35

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  ¹²But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping and looking in, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he departed to his home, wondering what had happened.

  ¹³Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia from Jerusalem.

  ¹⁴They talked with each other about all of these things which had happened.

  ¹⁵While they talked and questioned together, Jesus himself came near, and went with them.

  ¹⁶But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.

  ¹⁷He said to them, “What are you talking about as you walk, and are sad?”

  ¹⁸One of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who doesn’t know the things which have happened there in these days?”

  ¹⁹He said to them, “What things?” They said to him, “The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;

  ²⁰and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.

  ²¹But we were hoping that it was he who would redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened.

  ²²Also, certain women of our company amazed us, having arrived early at the tomb;

  ²³and when they didn’t find his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.

  ²⁴Some of us went to the tomb, and found it just like the women had said, but they didn’t see him.”

  ²⁵He said to them, “Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

  ²⁶Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”

  ²⁷Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

  ²⁸They came near to the village where they were going, and he acted like he would go further.

  ²⁹They urged him, saying, “Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over.” He went in to stay with them.

  ³⁰When he had sat down at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave it to them.

  ³¹Their eyes were opened and they recognized him, then he vanished out of their sight.

  ³²They said to one another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”

  ³³They rose up that very hour, returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and those who were with them,

  ³⁴saying, “The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!”

  ³⁵They related the things that happened along the way, and how he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.

• Epistle

  2 Corinthians 6:1–10

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  ¹Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

  ²for he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you. In a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

  ³We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

  ⁴but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

  ⁵in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

  ⁶in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,

  ⁷in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

  ⁸by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;

  ⁹as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;

  ¹⁰as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

• Epistle · St Chariton

  2 Corinthians 4:6–15

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  ⁶seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

  ⁷But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

  ⁸We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;

  ⁹pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

  ¹⁰always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

  ¹¹For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

  ¹²So then death works in us, but life in you.

  ¹³But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, “I believed, and therefore I spoke.” We also believe, and therefore we also speak;

  ¹⁴knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.

  ¹⁵For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

• Gospel

  Luke 5:1–11

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  ¹Now while the multitude pressed on him and heard the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret.

  ²He saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them, and were washing their nets.

  ³He entered into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.

  ⁴When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep, and let down your nets for a catch.”

  ⁵Simon answered him, “Master, we worked all night, and took nothing; but at your word I will let down the net.”

  ⁶When they had done this, they caught a great multitude of fish, and their net was breaking.

  ⁷They beckoned to their partners in the other boat, that they should come and help them. They came, and filled both boats, so that they began to sink.

  ⁸But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.”

  ⁹For he was amazed, and all who were with him, at the catch of fish which they had caught;

  ¹⁰and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid. From now on you will be catching people alive.”

  ¹¹When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything, and followed him.

• Gospel · St Chariton

  Luke 6:17–23

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  ¹⁷He came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases;

  ¹⁸as well as those who were troubled by unclean spirits, and they were being healed.

  ¹⁹All the multitude sought to touch him, for power came out of him and healed them all.

  ²⁰He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, God’s Kingdom is yours.

  ²¹Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

  ²²Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

  ²³Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

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)