July 28, 2028

Events of the day

• Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Great Prince Vladimir, in baptism Basil

  Polyeleos rank

Fasting

Fast day · Wednesday / Friday

Wednesday and Friday: fast without meat, dairy or eggs. Whether fish is allowed depends on the day's feast — check the church calendar.

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

• Vespers · St Vladimir

  3[1] Kings 8:22–23, 27–30

• Vespers · St Vladimir

  Isaiah 61:10–62:5

• Vespers · St Vladimir

  Isaiah 60:1–16

• Matins Gospel

  John 10:9–16

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  ⁹I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.

  ¹⁰The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

  ¹¹I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

  ¹²He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.

  ¹³The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn’t care for the sheep.

  ¹⁴I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;

  ¹⁵even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

  ¹⁶I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

• Epistle

  1 Corinthians 11:8–22

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  ⁸For man is not from woman, but woman from man;

  ⁹for man wasn’t created for the woman, but woman for the man.

  ¹⁰For this cause the woman ought to have authority over her own head, because of the angels.

  ¹¹Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.

  ¹²For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.

  ¹³Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?

  ¹⁴Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

  ¹⁵But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering.

  ¹⁶But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies.

  ¹⁷But in giving you this command, I don’t praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.

  ¹⁸For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.

  ¹⁹For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

  ²⁰When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord’s supper that you eat.

  ²¹For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.

  ²²What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly and put them to shame who don’t have enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.

• Epistle · St Vladimir

  Galatians 1:11–19

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  ¹¹But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man.

  ¹²For I didn’t receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

  ¹³For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God and ravaged it.

  ¹⁴I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

  ¹⁵But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace

  ¹⁶to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,

  ¹⁷nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.

  ¹⁸Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days.

  ¹⁹But of the other apostles I saw no one except James, the Lord’s brother.

• Gospel

  Matthew 17:10–18

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  ¹⁰His disciples asked him, saying, “Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

  ¹¹Jesus answered them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and will restore all things,

  ¹²but I tell you that Elijah has come already, and they didn’t recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted to. Even so the Son of Man will also suffer by them.”

  ¹³Then the disciples understood that he spoke to them of John the Baptizer.

  ¹⁴When they came to the multitude, a man came to him, kneeling down to him, and saying,

  ¹⁵“Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is epileptic, and suffers grievously; for he often falls into the fire, and often into the water.

  ¹⁶So I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him.”

  ¹⁷Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”

  ¹⁸Jesus rebuked him, the demon went out of him, and the boy was cured from that hour.

• Gospel · St Vladimir

  John 10:1–9

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  ¹“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.

  ²But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

  ³The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

  ⁴Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

  ⁵They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers.”

  ⁶Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them.

  ⁷Jesus therefore said to them again, “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door.

  ⁸All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.

  ⁹I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.

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

Saints and icons

• Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Great Prince Vladimir
• Prayer of the day: Short penitential prayers