October 21, 2023

Events of the day

• St Pelagia the Penitent

  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

  2 Corinthians 1:8–11

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  ⁸For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

  ⁹Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

  ¹⁰who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;

  ¹¹you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.

• Gospel

  Luke 5:27–32

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  ²⁷After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, “Follow me!”

  ²⁸He left everything, and rose up and followed him.

  ²⁹Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.

  ³⁰Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”

  ³¹Jesus answered them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

  ³²I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Prayer for the departed