October 15, 2021

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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

  Luke 9:12–18

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  ¹²The day began to wear away; and the twelve came and said to him, “Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding villages and farms, and lodge, and get food, for we are here in a deserted place.”

  ¹³But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.” They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people.”

  ¹⁴For they were about five thousand men. He said to his disciples, “Make them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”

  ¹⁵They did so, and made them all sit down.

  ¹⁶He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to the sky, he blessed them, broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude.

  ¹⁷They ate and were all filled. They gathered up twelve baskets of broken pieces that were left over.

  ¹⁸As he was praying alone, the disciples were with him, and he asked them, “Who do the multitudes say that I am?”

Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, New Calendar (OCA practice). Text: World English Bible.

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Short penitential prayers