June 29, 2030

Events of the day

• Holy, Glorious and All-praised Chief Apostles Peter and Paul

  Great Feast

  Memory of the chief apostles; the Apostles' Fast ends on the eve of this feast.

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

• Vespers

  1 Peter 1:3–9

• Vespers

  1 Peter 1:13–19

• Vespers

  1 Peter 2:11–24

• Matins Gospel

  John 21:15–25

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  ¹⁵So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”

  ¹⁶He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”

  ¹⁷He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.

  ¹⁸Most certainly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself and walked where you wanted to. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you don’t want to go.”

  ¹⁹Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”

  ²⁰Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following. This was the disciple whom Jesus loved, the one who had also leaned on Jesus’ breast at the supper and asked, “Lord, who is going to betray you?”

  ²¹Peter seeing him, said to Jesus, “Lord, what about this man?”

  ²²Jesus said to him, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.”

  ²³This saying therefore went out among the brothers, that this disciple wouldn’t die. Yet Jesus didn’t say to him that he wouldn’t die, but, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?”

  ²⁴This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and wrote these things. We know that his witness is true.

  ²⁵There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself wouldn’t have room for the books that would be written.

• Epistle · Apostles

  2 Corinthians 11:21–12:9

• Epistle

  Romans 3:19–26

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  ¹⁹Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

  ²⁰Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  ²¹But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;

  ²²even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

  ²³for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

  ²⁴being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

  ²⁵whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;

  ²⁶to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

• Gospel · Apostles

  Matthew 16:13–19

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  ¹³Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”

  ¹⁴They said, “Some say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.”

  ¹⁵He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”

  ¹⁶Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

  ¹⁷Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

  ¹⁸I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

  ¹⁹I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven; and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.”

• Gospel

  Matthew 7:1–8

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  ¹“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.

  ²For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

  ³Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye?

  ⁴Or how will you tell your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye;’ and behold, the beam is in your own eye?

  ⁵You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye.

  ⁶“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

  ⁷“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

  ⁸For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

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