October 2, 2023

Events of the day

• Martyrs Trophimus, Sabbatius and Dorymedon

  Commemoration

• Afterfeast: Exaltation of the Precious and Life-giving Cross

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

  Ephesians 4:25–32

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  ²⁵Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

  ²⁶“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

  ²⁷and don’t give place to the devil.

  ²⁸Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

  ²⁹Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

  ³⁰Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

  ³¹Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

  ³²And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

• Gospel

  Luke 3:19–22

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  ¹⁹but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias, his brother’s wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done,

  ²⁰added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison.

  ²¹Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened,

  ²²and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.”

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