August 6, 2024

Events of the day

• Holy Passion-bearers Boris and Gleb

  Polyeleos rank

• Martyr Christina

  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

• Vespers

  Isaiah 43:9–14

• Vespers

  Wisdom of Solomon 3:1–9

• Vespers

  Wisdom of Solomon 4:7–15

• Matins Gospel

  Luke 21:12–19

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  ¹²But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.

  ¹³It will turn out as a testimony for you.

  ¹⁴Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand how to answer,

  ¹⁵for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

  ¹⁶You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.

  ¹⁷You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake.

  ¹⁸And not a hair of your head will perish.

  ¹⁹“By your endurance you will win your lives.

• Epistle

  1 Corinthians 6:20–7:12

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  ²⁰for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

  ¹Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

  ²But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

  ³Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband.

  ⁴The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.

  ⁵Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

  ⁶But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

  ⁷Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

  ⁸But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

  ⁹But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

  ¹⁰But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband

  ¹¹(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

  ¹²But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.

• Epistle · Boris and Gleb

  Romans 8:28–39

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  ²⁸We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

  ²⁹For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

  ³⁰Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

  ³¹What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

  ³²He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

  ³³Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.

  ³⁴Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

  ³⁵Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

  ³⁶Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

  ³⁷No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

  ³⁸For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

  ³⁹nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• Gospel

  Matthew 14:1–13

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  ¹At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus,

  ²and said to his servants, “This is John the Baptizer. He is risen from the dead. That is why these powers work in him.”

  ³For Herod had arrested John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife.

  ⁴For John said to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”

  ⁵When he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.

  ⁶But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced among them and pleased Herod.

  ⁷Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she should ask.

  ⁸She, being prompted by her mother, said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptizer.”

  ⁹The king was grieved, but for the sake of his oaths, and of those who sat at the table with him, he commanded it to be given,

  ¹⁰and he sent and beheaded John in the prison.

  ¹¹His head was brought on a platter, and given to the young lady; and she brought it to her mother.

  ¹²His disciples came, and took the body, and buried it. Then they went and told Jesus.

  ¹³Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat, to a deserted place apart. When the multitudes heard it, they followed him on foot from the cities.

• Gospel · Boris and Gleb

  John 15:17–16:2

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  ¹⁷“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

  ¹⁸If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

  ¹⁹If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

  ²⁰Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

  ²¹But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.

  ²²If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

  ²³He who hates me, hates my Father also.

  ²⁴If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.

  ²⁵But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

  ²⁶“When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

  ²⁷You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

  ¹“I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble.

  ²They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Jesus Prayer