October 12, 2020

Events of the day

• St Cyriacus the Hermit

  Commemoration

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

• Epistle

  Philippians 1:1–7

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  ¹Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ; To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:

  ²Grace to you, and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

  ³I thank my God whenever I remember you,

  ⁴always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy,

  ⁵for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now;

  ⁶being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

  ⁷It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.

• Gospel

  Luke 4:37–44

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  ³⁷News about him went out into every place of the surrounding region.

  ³⁸He rose up from the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him for her.

  ³⁹He stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her. Immediately she rose up and served them.

  ⁴⁰When the sun was setting, all those who had any sick with various diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.

  ⁴¹Demons also came out of many, crying out, and saying, “You are the Christ, the Son of God!” Rebuking them, he didn’t allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

  ⁴²When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place, and the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and held on to him, so that he wouldn’t go away from them.

  ⁴³But he said to them, “I must preach the good news of God’s Kingdom to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent.”

  ⁴⁴He was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.

Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, Julian calendar. Text: World English Bible.

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Morning prayer of St Macarius the Great