August 29, 2029

Events of the day

• Translation of the Icon of Christ Not-Made-by-Hands from Edessa to Constantinople (944)

  Polyeleos rank

• Afterfeast: Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos

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

• Epistle

  2 Corinthians 13:3–14

• Epistle · Image

  Colossians 1:12–18

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  ¹²giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

  ¹³who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

  ¹⁴in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.

  ¹⁵He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

  ¹⁶For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him.

  ¹⁷He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

  ¹⁸He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.

• Gospel

  Mark 4:35–41

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  ³⁵On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let’s go over to the other side.”

  ³⁶Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him.

  ³⁷A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled.

  ³⁸He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are dying?”

  ³⁹He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

  ⁴⁰He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?”

  ⁴¹They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”

• Gospel · Image

  Luke 9:51–56, 10:22–24

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  ⁵¹It came to pass, when the days were near that he should be taken up, he intently set his face to go to Jerusalem

  ⁵²and sent messengers before his face. They went and entered into a village of the Samaritans, so as to prepare for him.

  ⁵³They didn’t receive him, because he was traveling with his face set toward Jerusalem.

  ⁵⁴When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them, just as Elijah did?”

  ⁵⁵But he turned and rebuked them, “You don’t know of what kind of spirit you are.

  ⁵⁶For the Son of Man didn’t come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.” They went to another village.

  ²²Turning to the disciples, he said, “All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him.”

  ²³Turning to the disciples, he said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see,

  ²⁴for I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.”

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

Saints and icons

• Christ Acheiropoietos — The Holy Face
• Prayer of the day: The Trisagion