September 5, 2024

Events of the day

• Martyr Lupus; Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons

  Commemoration

• Leave-taking of the feast: Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos

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 4:1–6

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  ¹Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

  ²But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

  ³Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,

  ⁴in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

  ⁵For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,

  ⁶seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

• Epistle · Theotokos

  Philippians 2:5–11

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  ⁵Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

  ⁶who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

  ⁷but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

  ⁸And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

  ⁹Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name,

  ¹⁰that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,

  ¹¹and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

• Gospel

  Matthew 24:13–28

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  ¹³But he who endures to the end will be saved.

  ¹⁴This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

  ¹⁵“When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

  ¹⁶then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

  ¹⁷Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out the things that are in his house.

  ¹⁸Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes.

  ¹⁹But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!

  ²⁰Pray that your flight will not be in the winter, nor on a Sabbath,

  ²¹for then there will be great suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.

  ²²Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.

  ²³“Then if any man tells you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or, ‘There,’ don’t believe it.

  ²⁴For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.

  ²⁵“Behold, I have told you beforehand.

  ²⁶If therefore they tell you, ‘Behold, he is in the wilderness,’ don’t go out; or ‘Behold, he is in the inner rooms,’ don’t believe it.

  ²⁷For as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

  ²⁸For wherever the carcass is, that is where the vultures gather together.

• Gospel · Theotokos

  Luke 10:38–42, 11:27–28

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Prayer to the Holy Spirit “O Heavenly King”