September 14, 2027

Events of the day

• Exaltation of the Precious and Life-giving Cross

  Twelve Great Feast

  Commemorates the finding of the Lord's Cross by the holy Empress Helena in Jerusalem (4th century). A strict fast day.

Fasting

Fast day · Exaltation of the Cross

Exaltation of the Cross: strict fast, food with oil.

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

  Exodus 15:22–16:1

• Vespers

  Proverbs 3:11–18

• Vespers

  Isaiah 60:11–16

• Matins Gospel

  John 12:28–36

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  ²⁸Father, glorify your name!” Then a voice came out of the sky, saying, “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”

  ²⁹Therefore the multitude who stood by and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”

  ³⁰Jesus answered, “This voice hasn’t come for my sake, but for your sakes.

  ³¹Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

  ³²And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

  ³³But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should die.

  ³⁴The multitude answered him, “We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up?’ Who is this Son of Man?”

  ³⁵Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

  ³⁶While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.” Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.

• Epistle · Elevation

  1 Corinthians 1:18–24

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  ¹⁸For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

  ¹⁹For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”

  ²⁰Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

  ²¹For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

  ²²For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,

  ²³but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

  ²⁴but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;

• Epistle

  2 Corinthians 8:16–9:5

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  ¹⁶But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.

  ¹⁷For he indeed accepted our exhortation, but being himself very earnest, he went out to you of his own accord.

  ¹⁸We have sent together with him the brother whose praise in the Good News is known throughout all the assemblies.

  ¹⁹Not only so, but he was also appointed by the assemblies to travel with us in this grace, which is served by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and to show our readiness.

  ²⁰We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us.

  ²¹Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

  ²²We have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.

  ²³As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for you. As for our brothers, they are the apostles of the assemblies, the glory of Christ.

  ²⁴Therefore show the proof of your love to them before the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.

  ¹It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints,

  ²for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to those of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for the past year. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.

  ³But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared,

  ⁴lest by any means, if anyone from Macedonia comes there with me and finds you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) would be disappointed in this confident boasting.

  ⁵I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.

• Gospel · Elevation

  John 19:6–11, 13–20, 25–28, 30–35

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  ⁶When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.”

  ⁷The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”

  ⁸When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.

  ⁹He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.

  ¹⁰Pilate therefore said to him, “Aren’t you speaking to me? Don’t you know that I have power to release you and have power to crucify you?”

  ¹¹Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”

  ¹³When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called “The Pavement”, but in Hebrew, “Gabbatha.”

  ¹⁴Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”

  ¹⁵They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”

  ¹⁶So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away.

  ¹⁷He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called “The Place of a Skull”, which is called in Hebrew, “Golgotha”,

  ¹⁸where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in the middle.

  ¹⁹Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, “JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

  ²⁰Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.

  ²⁵But standing by Jesus’ cross were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

  ²⁶Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!”

  ²⁷Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.

  ²⁸After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty.”

  ³⁰When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished.” He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

  ³¹Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn’t remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

  ³²Therefore the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him;

  ³³but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they didn’t break his legs.

  ³⁴However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.

  ³⁵He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe.

• Gospel

  Mark 3:13–19

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  ¹³He went up into the mountain, and called to himself those whom he wanted, and they went to him.

  ¹⁴He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach,

  ¹⁵and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons:

  ¹⁶Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter);

  ¹⁷James the son of Zebedee; and John, the brother of James, (whom he called Boanerges, which means, Sons of Thunder);

  ¹⁸Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot;

  ¹⁹and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. Then he came into a house.

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