August 23, 2027

Events of the day

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• Leave-taking of the feast: Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos

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 15:12–19

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  ¹²Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

  ¹³But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised.

  ¹⁴If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.

  ¹⁵Yes, we are also found false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that he raised up Christ, whom he didn’t raise up, if it is so that the dead are not raised.

  ¹⁶For if the dead aren’t raised, neither has Christ been raised.

  ¹⁷If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.

  ¹⁸Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

  ¹⁹If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.

• Epistle · Theotokos

  Philippians 2:5–11

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  ⁵Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

  ⁶who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

  ⁷but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

  ⁸And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

  ⁹Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name,

  ¹⁰that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,

  ¹¹and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

• Gospel

  Matthew 21:18–22

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  ¹⁸Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.

  ¹⁹Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, “Let there be no fruit from you forever!” Immediately the fig tree withered away.

  ²⁰When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree immediately wither away?”

  ²¹Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it would be done.

  ²²All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

• Gospel · Theotokos

  Luke 10:38–42, 11:27–28

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Morning prayer of St Macarius the Great