March 9, 2027

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Fasting

No fast · Cheesefare Week

Cheesefare Week: no meat; dairy, eggs and fish are allowed every day.

• Meat: not allowed
• Dairy & eggs: allowed
• Fish: allowed
• Oil: allowed
• Wine: allowed

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 · Martyrs

  Isaiah 43:9–14

• Vespers · Martyrs

  Wisdom of Solomon 3:1–9

• Vespers · Martyrs

  Wisdom of Solomon 5:15–6:3

• Matins Gospel · Martyrs

  Luke 21:12–19

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  ¹²But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.

  ¹³It will turn out as a testimony for you.

  ¹⁴Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand how to answer,

  ¹⁵for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

  ¹⁶You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.

  ¹⁷You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake.

  ¹⁸And not a hair of your head will perish.

  ¹⁹“By your endurance you will win your lives.

• Epistle

  Jude 1–10

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  ¹Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

  ²Mercy to you and peace and love be multiplied.

  ³Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

  ⁴For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

  ⁵Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.

  ⁶Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

  ⁷Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in the same way as these given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

  ⁸Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.

  ⁹But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”

  ¹⁰But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.

• Epistle · Martyrs

  Hebrews 12:1–10

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  ¹Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

  ²looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

  ³For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

  ⁴You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.

  ⁵You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

  ⁶for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

  ⁷It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?

  ⁸But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.

  ⁹Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

  ¹⁰For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

• Gospel

  Luke 22:39–42, 45–23:1

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  ³⁹He came out and went, as his custom was, to the Mount of Olives. His disciples also followed him.

  ⁴⁰When he was at the place, he said to them, “Pray that you don’t enter into temptation.”

  ⁴¹He was withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw, and he knelt down and prayed,

  ⁴²saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”

  ⁴⁵When he rose up from his prayer, he came to the disciples, and found them sleeping because of grief,

  ⁴⁶and said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”

  ⁴⁷While he was still speaking, behold, a multitude, and he who was called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He came near to Jesus to kiss him.

  ⁴⁸But Jesus said to him, “Judas, do you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?”

  ⁴⁹When those who were around him saw what was about to happen, they said to him, “Lord, shall we strike with the sword?”

  ⁵⁰A certain one of them struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.

  ⁵¹But Jesus answered, “Let me at least do this”—and he touched his ear, and healed him.

  ⁵²Jesus said to the chief priests, captains of the temple, and elders, who had come against him, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?

  ⁵³When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”

  ⁵⁴They seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the high priest’s house. But Peter followed from a distance.

  ⁵⁵When they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard, and had sat down together, Peter sat among them.

  ⁵⁶A certain servant girl saw him as he sat in the light, and looking intently at him, said, “This man also was with him.”

  ⁵⁷He denied Jesus, saying, “Woman, I don’t know him.”

  ⁵⁸After a little while someone else saw him, and said, “You also are one of them!” But Peter answered, “Man, I am not!”

  ⁵⁹After about one hour passed, another confidently affirmed, saying, “Truly this man also was with him, for he is a Galilean!”

  ⁶⁰But Peter said, “Man, I don’t know what you are talking about!” Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.

  ⁶¹The Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the Lord’s word, how he said to him, “Before the rooster crows you will deny me three times.”

  ⁶²He went out, and wept bitterly.

  ⁶³The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him.

  ⁶⁴Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, “Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?”

  ⁶⁵They spoke many other things against him, insulting him.

  ⁶⁶As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people were gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,

  ⁶⁷“If you are the Christ, tell us.” But he said to them, “If I tell you, you won’t believe,

  ⁶⁸and if I ask, you will in no way answer me or let me go.

  ⁶⁹From now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”

  ⁷⁰They all said, “Are you then the Son of God?” He said to them, “You say it, because I am.”

  ⁷¹They said, “Why do we need any more witness? For we ourselves have heard from his own mouth!”

  ¹The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate.

• Gospel · Martyrs

  Matthew 20:1–16

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  ¹“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

  ²When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

  ³He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.

  ⁴He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went their way.

  ⁵Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise.

  ⁶About the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’

  ⁷“They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ “He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.’

  ⁸When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.’

  ⁹“When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius.

  ¹⁰When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius.

  ¹¹When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,

  ¹²saying, ‘These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!’

  ¹³“But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn’t you agree with me for a denarius?

  ¹⁴Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you.

  ¹⁵Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

  ¹⁶So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Jesus Prayer