July 5, 2031

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

• 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 8:14–21

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  ¹⁴For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

  ¹⁵For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

  ¹⁶The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

  ¹⁷and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

  ¹⁸For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

  ¹⁹For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

  ²⁰For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope

  ²¹that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

• 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 9:9–13

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  ⁹As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, “Follow me.” He got up and followed him.

  ¹⁰As he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.

  ¹¹When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

  ¹²When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

  ¹³But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

• 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.

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Prayer for the departed