July 5, 2030

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

• Vespers · Athanasius

  Wisdom of Solomon 3:1–9

• Vespers · Athanasius

  Wisdom of Solomon 5:15–6:3

• Vespers · Athanasius

  Wisdom of Solomon 4:7–15

• Vespers · Sergius

  Composite reading — Proverbs 10, 3, 8

• Vespers · Sergius

  Proverbs 10:31–11:12

• Vespers · Sergius

  Wisdom of Solomon 3:1–9

• Matins Gospel · either Saint

  Matthew 11:27–30

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  ²⁷All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.

  ²⁸“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

  ²⁹Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

  ³⁰For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

• Epistle

  Romans 9:6–19

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  ⁶But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.

  ⁷Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”

  ⁸That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.

  ⁹For this is a word of promise, “At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.”

  ¹⁰Not only so, but Rebekah also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.

  ¹¹For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

  ¹²it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.”

  ¹³Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

  ¹⁴What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

  ¹⁵For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

  ¹⁶So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.

  ¹⁷For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”

  ¹⁸So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.

  ¹⁹You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”

• Epistle · either Saint

  Galatians 5:22–6:2

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  ²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

  ²³gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

  ²⁴Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

  ²⁵If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.

  ²⁶Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

  ¹Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

  ²Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

• Gospel

  Matthew 10:32–36, 11:1

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  ³²Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven.

  ³³But whoever denies me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven.

  ³⁴“Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword.

  ³⁵For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

  ³⁶A man’s foes will be those of his own household.

  ¹When Jesus had finished directing his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.

• Gospel · either Saint

  Luke 6:17–23

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  ¹⁷He came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases;

  ¹⁸as well as those who were troubled by unclean spirits, and they were being healed.

  ¹⁹All the multitude sought to touch him, for power came out of him and healed them all.

  ²⁰He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, God’s Kingdom is yours.

  ²¹Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

  ²²Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

  ²³Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

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

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• Prayer of the day: Short penitential prayers