September 16, 2024

Events of the day

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• Afterfeast: Exaltation of the Precious and Life-giving Cross

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 8:7–15

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  ⁷But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.

  ⁸I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

  ⁹For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

  ¹⁰I give a judgment in this: for this is expedient for you who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.

  ¹¹But now complete the doing also, that as there was the readiness to be willing, so there may be the completion also out of your ability.

  ¹²For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.

  ¹³For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,

  ¹⁴but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack; that there may be equality.

  ¹⁵As it is written, “He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack.”

• Gospel

  Luke 3:19–22

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  ¹⁹but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias, his brother’s wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done,

  ²⁰added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison.

  ²¹Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened,

  ²²and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.”

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Morning prayer of St Macarius the Great