July 20, 2029

Events of the day

• Holy Prophet Elijah

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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

• Vespers

  Composite reading — 3 [1] Kings 17.1-23

• Vespers

  Composite reading — 3 [1] Kings 18, 19

• Vespers

  Composite reading — 3 [1] Kings 19.19, 20, 21; 4 [2] Kings 2.1,6-14

• Matins Gospel

  Luke 4:22–30

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  ²²All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

  ²³He said to them, “Doubtless you will tell me this parable, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’ ”

  ²⁴He said, “Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.

  ²⁵But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.

  ²⁶Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

  ²⁷There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.”

  ²⁸They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things.

  ²⁹They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.

  ³⁰But he, passing through the middle of them, went his way.

• Epistle

  1 Corinthians 11:8–22

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  ⁸For man is not from woman, but woman from man;

  ⁹for man wasn’t created for the woman, but woman for the man.

  ¹⁰For this cause the woman ought to have authority over her own head, because of the angels.

  ¹¹Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.

  ¹²For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.

  ¹³Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?

  ¹⁴Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

  ¹⁵But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering.

  ¹⁶But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies.

  ¹⁷But in giving you this command, I don’t praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.

  ¹⁸For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.

  ¹⁹For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

  ²⁰When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord’s supper that you eat.

  ²¹For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.

  ²²What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly and put them to shame who don’t have enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.

• Epistle · Prophet Elijah

  James 5:10–20

• Gospel

  Matthew 17:10–18

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  ¹⁰His disciples asked him, saying, “Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

  ¹¹Jesus answered them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and will restore all things,

  ¹²but I tell you that Elijah has come already, and they didn’t recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted to. Even so the Son of Man will also suffer by them.”

  ¹³Then the disciples understood that he spoke to them of John the Baptizer.

  ¹⁴When they came to the multitude, a man came to him, kneeling down to him, and saying,

  ¹⁵“Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is epileptic, and suffers grievously; for he often falls into the fire, and often into the water.

  ¹⁶So I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him.”

  ¹⁷Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”

  ¹⁸Jesus rebuked him, the demon went out of him, and the boy was cured from that hour.

• Gospel · Prophet Elijah

  Luke 4:22–30

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  ²²All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

  ²³He said to them, “Doubtless you will tell me this parable, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’ ”

  ²⁴He said, “Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.

  ²⁵But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.

  ²⁶Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

  ²⁷There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.”

  ²⁸They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things.

  ²⁹They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.

  ³⁰But he, passing through the middle of them, went his way.

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Short penitential prayers