October 5, 2024

Events of the day

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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

  1 Corinthians 4:17–5:5

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  ¹⁷Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

  ¹⁸Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

  ¹⁹But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.

  ²⁰For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.

  ²¹What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

  ¹It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.

  ²You are arrogant, and didn’t mourn instead, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

  ³For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.

  ⁴In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

  ⁵are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

• Gospel

  Luke 5:27–32

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  ²⁷After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, “Follow me!”

  ²⁸He left everything, and rose up and followed him.

  ²⁹Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.

  ³⁰Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”

  ³¹Jesus answered them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

  ³²I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Prayer for the departed