October 22, 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

• Gospel

  Luke 11:1–10

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  ¹When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”

  ²He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

  ³Give us day by day our daily bread.

  ⁴Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’ ”

  ⁵He said to them, “Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight, and tell him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

  ⁶for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him,’

  ⁷and he from within will answer and say, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can’t get up and give it to you’?

  ⁸I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.

  ⁹“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

  ¹⁰For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

• Epistle

  Ephesians 5:20–26

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  ²⁰giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

  ²¹subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

  ²²Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

  ²³For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

  ²⁴But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

  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,

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Jesus Prayer