April 6, 2024

Events of the day

• Saturday of the 3rd week of Great Lent. Commemoration of the departed

  Commemoration

• St Zacharias the Monk

  Commemoration

• Forefeast: Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos

Fasting

Fast day · Great Lent

Great Lent, Saturday and Sunday: food with oil and wine.

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

• Epistle

  Hebrews 10:32–38

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  ³²But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;

  ³³partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.

  ³⁴For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

  ³⁵Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

  ³⁶For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

  ³⁷“In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will not wait.

  ³⁸But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

• Gospel

  Mark 2:14–17

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  ¹⁴As he passed by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he arose and followed him.

  ¹⁵He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him.

  ¹⁶The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?”

  ¹⁷When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not 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