October 12, 2022

Events of the day

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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 5:25–33

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  ²⁵Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

  ²⁶that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

  ²⁷that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

  ²⁸Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

  ²⁹For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

  ³⁰because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

  ³¹“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

  ³²This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

  ³³Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

• Gospel

  Luke 8:22–25

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  ²²Now on one of those days, he entered into a boat, himself and his disciples, and he said to them, “Let’s go over to the other side of the lake.” So they launched out.

  ²³But as they sailed, he fell asleep. A wind storm came down on the lake, and they were taking on dangerous amounts of water.

  ²⁴They came to him, and awoke him, saying, “Master, master, we are dying!” He awoke, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water, and they ceased, and it was calm.

  ²⁵He said to them, “Where is your faith?” Being afraid they marveled, saying to one another, “Who is this then, that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?”

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Trisagion