August 16, 2034

Events of the day

• Translation of the Icon of Christ Not-Made-by-Hands from Edessa to Constantinople (944)

  Polyeleos rank

• Afterfeast: Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos

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

  2 Corinthians 6:11–16

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  ¹¹Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.

  ¹²You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.

  ¹³Now in return, I speak as to my children: you also open your hearts.

  ¹⁴Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

  ¹⁵What agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what portion does a believer have with an unbeliever?

  ¹⁶What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

• Epistle · Image

  Colossians 1:12–18

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  ¹²giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

  ¹³who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

  ¹⁴in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.

  ¹⁵He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

  ¹⁶For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him.

  ¹⁷He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

  ¹⁸He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.

• Gospel

  Mark 1:23–28

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  ²³Immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, and he cried out,

  ²⁴saying, “Ha! What do we have to do with you, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!”

  ²⁵Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be quiet, and come out of him!”

  ²⁶The unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying with a loud voice, came out of him.

  ²⁷They were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching? For with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him!”

  ²⁸The report of him went out immediately everywhere into all the region of Galilee and its surrounding area.

• Gospel · Image

  Luke 9:51–56, 10:22–24

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  ⁵¹It came to pass, when the days were near that he should be taken up, he intently set his face to go to Jerusalem

  ⁵²and sent messengers before his face. They went and entered into a village of the Samaritans, so as to prepare for him.

  ⁵³They didn’t receive him, because he was traveling with his face set toward Jerusalem.

  ⁵⁴When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them, just as Elijah did?”

  ⁵⁵But he turned and rebuked them, “You don’t know of what kind of spirit you are.

  ⁵⁶For the Son of Man didn’t come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.” They went to another village.

  ²²Turning to the disciples, he said, “All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him.”

  ²³Turning to the disciples, he said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see,

  ²⁴for I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.”

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

Saints and icons

• Christ Acheiropoietos — The Holy Face
• Prayer of the day: The Trisagion