September 8, 2030

Events of the day

• Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos

  Twelve Great Feast

  The birth of the Virgin Mary to the righteous Joachim and Anna; the first of the Twelve Great Feasts in the church year.

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

• Vespers

  Genesis 28:10–17

• Vespers

  Ezekiel 43:27–44:4

• Vespers

  Proverbs 9:1–11

• Matins Gospel

  Luke 1:39–49, 56

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  ³⁹Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah,

  ⁴⁰and entered into the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth.

  ⁴¹When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

  ⁴²She called out with a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!

  ⁴³Why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

  ⁴⁴For behold, when the voice of your greeting came into my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy!

  ⁴⁵Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord!”

  ⁴⁶Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord.

  ⁴⁷My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior,

  ⁴⁸for he has looked at the humble state of his servant. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.

  ⁴⁹For he who is mighty has done great things for me. Holy is his name.

  ⁵⁶Mary stayed with her about three months, and then returned to her house.

• Epistle · Sunday before Elevation

  Galatians 6:11–18

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  ¹¹See with what large letters I write to you with my own hand.

  ¹²As many as desire to make a good impression in the flesh compel you to be circumcised; just so they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

  ¹³For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

  ¹⁴But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

  ¹⁵For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

  ¹⁶As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.

  ¹⁷From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my body.

  ¹⁸The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.

• Epistle · Theotokos

  Philippians 2:5–11

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  ⁵Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

  ⁶who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

  ⁷but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

  ⁸And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

  ⁹Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name,

  ¹⁰that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,

  ¹¹and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

• Epistle

  1 Corinthians 15:1–11

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  ¹Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

  ²by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

  ³For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

  ⁴that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

  ⁵and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

  ⁶Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep.

  ⁷Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles,

  ⁸and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.

  ⁹For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

  ¹⁰But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

  ¹¹Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.

• Gospel · Sunday before Elevation

  John 3:13–17

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  ¹³No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

  ¹⁴As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

  ¹⁵that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

  ¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

  ¹⁷For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

• Gospel · Theotokos

  Luke 10:38–42, 11:27–28

• Gospel

  Matthew 19:16–26

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  ¹⁶Behold, one came to him and said, “Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”

  ¹⁷He said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

  ¹⁸He said to him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “ ‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’

  ¹⁹‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”

  ²⁰The young man said to him, “All these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still lack?”

  ²¹Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

  ²²But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.

  ²³Jesus said to his disciples, “Most certainly I say to you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty.

  ²⁴Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”

  ²⁵When the disciples heard it, they were exceedingly astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved?”

  ²⁶Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

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