January 28, 2024

Events of the day

• Sts Paul of Thebes and John the Hut-dweller

  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

• 1st Matins Gospel

  Matthew 28:16–20

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  ¹⁶But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had sent them.

  ¹⁷When they saw him, they bowed down to him, but some doubted.

  ¹⁸Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

  ¹⁹Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

  ²⁰teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

• Epistle

  Colossians 3:4–11

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  ⁴When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.

  ⁵Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

  ⁶For these things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

  ⁷You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

  ⁸but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

  ⁹Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

  ¹⁰and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

  ¹¹where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

• Gospel

  Luke 18:18–27

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  ¹⁸A certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

  ¹⁹Jesus asked him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one: God.

  ²⁰You know the commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ ”

  ²¹He said, “I have observed all these things from my youth up.”

  ²²When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”

  ²³But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was very rich.

  ²⁴Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!

  ²⁵For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”

  ²⁶Those who heard it said, “Then who can be saved?”

  ²⁷But he said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.”

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Symbol of Faith (Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed)