July 23, 2027

Events of the day

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Fasting

Fast day · Wednesday / Friday

Wednesday and Friday: fast without meat, dairy or eggs. Whether fish is allowed depends on the day's feast — check the church calendar.

• Meat: not allowed
• Dairy & eggs: not allowed
• Fish: not specified
• 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

• Epistle

  Romans 16:1–16

• Gospel

  Matthew 13:3–9

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  ³He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.

  ⁴As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.

  ⁵Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.

  ⁶When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.

  ⁷Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.

  ⁸Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

  ⁹He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Short penitential prayers