August 29, 2030

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

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 · 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

  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 · 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: Prayer to the Holy Spirit “O Heavenly King”