July 13, 2024

Events of the day

• Synaxis of the Holy, Glorious and All-praised Twelve Apostles

  Polyeleos rank

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

  Romans 3:28–4:3

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  ²⁸We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

  ²⁹Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

  ³⁰since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

  ³¹Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

  ¹What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?

  ²For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

  ³For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”

• Epistle · Apostles

  1 Corinthians 4:9–16

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  ⁹For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

  ¹⁰We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

  ¹¹Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

  ¹²We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

  ¹³Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

  ¹⁴I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

  ¹⁵For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

  ¹⁶I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.

• Gospel

  Matthew 7:24–8:4

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  ²⁴“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

  ²⁵The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock.

  ²⁶Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.

  ²⁷The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”

  ²⁸When Jesus had finished saying these things, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching,

  ²⁹for he taught them with authority, and not like the scribes.

  ¹When he came down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.

  ²Behold, a leper came to him and worshiped him, saying, “Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean.”

  ³Jesus stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, “I want to. Be made clean.” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

  ⁴Jesus said to him, “See that you tell nobody, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”

• Gospel · Apostles

  Mark 3:13–19

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  ¹³He went up into the mountain, and called to himself those whom he wanted, and they went to him.

  ¹⁴He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach,

  ¹⁵and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons:

  ¹⁶Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter);

  ¹⁷James the son of Zebedee; and John, the brother of James, (whom he called Boanerges, which means, Sons of Thunder);

  ¹⁸Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot;

  ¹⁹and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. Then he came into a house.

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Prayer for the departed