March 24, 2035

Events of the day

• Saturday of the 2nd week of Great Lent. Commemoration of the departed

  Commemoration

• Forefeast: Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos

Fasting

Fast day · Great Lent

Great Lent, Saturday and Sunday: food with oil and wine.

• 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

• Epistle

  Hebrews 3:12–16

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  ¹²Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

  ¹³but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

  ¹⁴For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

  ¹⁵while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”

  ¹⁶For who, when they heard, rebelled? Wasn’t it all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?

• Gospel

  Mark 1:35–44

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  ³⁵Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

  ³⁶Simon and those who were with him searched for him.

  ³⁷They found him and told him, “Everyone is looking for you.”

  ³⁸He said to them, “Let’s go elsewhere into the next towns, that I may preach there also, because I came out for this reason.”

  ³⁹He went into their synagogues throughout all Galilee, preaching and casting out demons.

  ⁴⁰A leper came to him, begging him, kneeling down to him, and saying to him, “If you want to, you can make me clean.”

  ⁴¹Being moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand, and touched him, and said to him, “I want to. Be made clean.”

  ⁴²When he had said this, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was made clean.

  ⁴³He strictly warned him, and immediately sent him out,

  ⁴⁴and said to him, “See you say nothing to anybody, but go show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing the things which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.”

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Prayer for the departed