September 22, 2034

Events of the day

• Righteous Joachim and Anna; St Joseph of Volokolamsk

  Polyeleos rank

• Afterfeast: Nativity 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

  Ephesians 4:17–25

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  ¹⁷This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

  ¹⁸being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

  ¹⁹They, having become callous, gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

  ²⁰But you didn’t learn Christ that way,

  ²¹if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:

  ²²that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

  ²³and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

  ²⁴and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

  ²⁵Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

• Gospel

  Mark 12:1–12

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  ¹He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.

  ²When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard.

  ³They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty.

  ⁴Again, he sent another servant to them; and they threw stones at him, wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated.

  ⁵Again he sent another; and they killed him; and many others, beating some, and killing some.

  ⁶Therefore still having one, his beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

  ⁷But those farmers said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’

  ⁸They took him, killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.

  ⁹What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.

  ¹⁰Haven’t you even read this Scripture: ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the head of the corner.

  ¹¹This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes’?”

  ¹²They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away.

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Short penitential prayers