October 8, 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

  Ephesians 1:7–17

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  ⁷in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

  ⁸which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

  ⁹making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

  ¹⁰to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in him.

  ¹¹We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

  ¹²to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ.

  ¹³In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

  ¹⁴who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

  ¹⁵For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,

  ¹⁶don’t cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,

  ¹⁷that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

• Gospel

  Luke 7:31–35

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  ³¹“To what then should I compare the people of this generation? What are they like?

  ³²They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call to one another, saying, ‘We piped to you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned, and you didn’t weep.’

  ³³For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’

  ³⁴The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

  ³⁵Wisdom is justified by all her children.”

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Short penitential prayers