August 19, 2022

Events of the day

• Transfiguration of the Lord

  Twelve Great Feast

  Christ reveals His divine glory to the disciples on Mount Tabor. Fish is allowed within the Dormition Fast; fruits are blessed.

Fasting

Fast day · Dormition Fast

Transfiguration: fish is allowed within the Dormition Fast.

• Meat: not allowed
• Dairy & eggs: not allowed
• Fish: 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

• Vespers

  Exodus 24:12–18

• Vespers

  Composite reading — Exodus 33.11-23; 34.4-6, 8

• Vespers

  Composite reading — 3 [1] Kings 19.3-9, 11-13, 15, 16

• Matins Gospel

  Luke 9:28–36

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  ²⁸About eight days after these sayings, he took with him Peter, John, and James, and went up onto the mountain to pray.

  ²⁹As he was praying, the appearance of his face was altered, and his clothing became white and dazzling.

  ³⁰Behold, two men were talking with him, who were Moses and Elijah,

  ³¹who appeared in glory, and spoke of his departure, which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.

  ³²Now Peter and those who were with him were heavy with sleep, but when they were fully awake, they saw his glory, and the two men who stood with him.

  ³³As they were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is good for us to be here. Let’s make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah,” not knowing what he said.

  ³⁴While he said these things, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were afraid as they entered into the cloud.

  ³⁵A voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him!”

  ³⁶When the voice came, Jesus was found alone. They were silent, and told no one in those days any of the things which they had seen.

• Epistle · Transfiguration

  2 Peter 1:10–19

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  ¹⁰Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

  ¹¹For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

  ¹²Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

  ¹³I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you,

  ¹⁴knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.

  ¹⁵Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.

  ¹⁶For we didn’t follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

  ¹⁷For he received from God the Father honor and glory when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

  ¹⁸We heard this voice come out of heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain.

  ¹⁹We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

• Epistle

  2 Corinthians 1:12–20

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  ¹²For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

  ¹³For we write no other things to you than what you read or even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end,

  ¹⁴as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

  ¹⁵In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit,

  ¹⁶and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.

  ¹⁷When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?”

  ¹⁸But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not “Yes and no.”

  ¹⁹For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not “Yes and no,” but in him is “Yes.”

  ²⁰For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen”, to the glory of God through us.

• Gospel · Transfiguration

  Matthew 17:1–9

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  ¹After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain by themselves.

  ²He was changed before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became as white as the light.

  ³Behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them talking with him.

  ⁴Peter answered, and said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you want, let’s make three tents here: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

  ⁵While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”

  ⁶When the disciples heard it, they fell on their faces, and were very afraid.

  ⁷Jesus came and touched them and said, “Get up, and don’t be afraid.”

  ⁸Lifting up their eyes, they saw no one, except Jesus alone.

  ⁹As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, “Don’t tell anyone what you saw, until the Son of Man has risen from the dead.”

• Gospel

  Matthew 22:23–33

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  ²³On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,

  ²⁴saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.’

  ²⁵Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring left his wife to his brother.

  ²⁶In the same way, the second also, and the third, to the seventh.

  ²⁷After them all, the woman died.

  ²⁸In the resurrection therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had her.”

  ²⁹But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

  ³⁰For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven.

  ³¹But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven’t you read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,

  ³²‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?’ God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”

  ³³When the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Troparion of the Transfiguration