July 14, 2026

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

• Epistle

  1 Corinthians 6:20–7:12

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  ²⁰for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

  ¹Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

  ²But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

  ³Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband.

  ⁴The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.

  ⁵Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

  ⁶But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

  ⁷Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

  ⁸But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

  ⁹But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

  ¹⁰But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband

  ¹¹(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

  ¹²But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.

• Gospel

  Matthew 14:1–13

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  ¹At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus,

  ²and said to his servants, “This is John the Baptizer. He is risen from the dead. That is why these powers work in him.”

  ³For Herod had arrested John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife.

  ⁴For John said to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”

  ⁵When he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.

  ⁶But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced among them and pleased Herod.

  ⁷Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she should ask.

  ⁸She, being prompted by her mother, said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptizer.”

  ⁹The king was grieved, but for the sake of his oaths, and of those who sat at the table with him, he commanded it to be given,

  ¹⁰and he sent and beheaded John in the prison.

  ¹¹His head was brought on a platter, and given to the young lady; and she brought it to her mother.

  ¹²His disciples came, and took the body, and buried it. Then they went and told Jesus.

  ¹³Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat, to a deserted place apart. When the multitudes heard it, they followed him on foot from the cities.

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Jesus Prayer