---
title: "July 1, 2022 — Martyr Leontius | Church calendar"
description: "Friday, July 1, 2022. 18 June (Old Style). Martyr Leontius. Fast day. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on…"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2022-07-01"
language: "en"
---

Friday

# July 1, 2022

18 June (Old Style) · 3rd week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2022-07-01) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2022-07-01)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2022-07)

[← June 30](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2022-06-30) [July 2 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2022-07-02)

## Events of the day

- Martyr Leontius

  Commemoration

## Fasting

Fast day · Apostles' Fast

Apostles' Fast, Wednesday and Friday: xerophagy.

- Meat: not allowed
- Dairy & eggs: not allowed
- Fish: not allowed
- Oil: not allowed
- Wine: not allowed
- Xerophagy

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

  Romans 9:6–19

  **Show the text**

  6 But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.

  7 Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”

  8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.

  9 For this is a word of promise, “At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.”

  10 Not only so, but Rebekah also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.

  11 For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

  12 it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.”

  13 Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

  14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

  15 For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

  16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.

  17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”

  18 So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.

  19 You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”

- Gospel

  Matthew 10:32–36, 11:1

  **Show the text**

  32 Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven.

  33 But whoever denies me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven.

  34 “Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword.

  35 For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

  36 A man’s foes will be those of his own household.

  1 When Jesus had finished directing his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Short penitential prayers](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/penitential-short)