November 2, 2031

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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 · Unmercenaries

  Isaiah 43:9–14

• Vespers · Unmercenaries

  Wisdom of Solomon 3:1–9

• Vespers · Unmercenaries

  Wisdom of Solomon 5:15–6:3

• 11th Matins Gospel

  John 21:15–25

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  ¹⁵So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”

  ¹⁶He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”

  ¹⁷He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.

  ¹⁸Most certainly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself and walked where you wanted to. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you don’t want to go.”

  ¹⁹Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”

  ²⁰Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following. This was the disciple whom Jesus loved, the one who had also leaned on Jesus’ breast at the supper and asked, “Lord, who is going to betray you?”

  ²¹Peter seeing him, said to Jesus, “Lord, what about this man?”

  ²²Jesus said to him, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.”

  ²³This saying therefore went out among the brothers, that this disciple wouldn’t die. Yet Jesus didn’t say to him that he wouldn’t die, but, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?”

  ²⁴This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and wrote these things. We know that his witness is true.

  ²⁵There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself wouldn’t have room for the books that would be written.

• Epistle

  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 · Unmercenaries

  1 Corinthians 12:27–13:8

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  ²⁷Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

  ²⁸God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.

  ²⁹Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all miracle workers?

  ³⁰Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with various languages? Do all interpret?

  ³¹But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.

  ¹If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

  ²If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

  ³If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

  ⁴Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

  ⁵doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

  ⁶doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

  ⁷bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

  ⁸Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

• Gospel

  Luke 8:26–39

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  ²⁶They arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee.

  ²⁷When Jesus stepped ashore, a certain man out of the city who had demons for a long time met him. He wore no clothes, and didn’t live in a house, but in the tombs.

  ²⁸When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, “What do I have to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don’t torment me!”

  ²⁹For Jesus was commanding the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For the unclean spirit had often seized the man. He was kept under guard, and bound with chains and fetters. Breaking the bonds apart, he was driven by the demon into the desert.

  ³⁰Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He said, “Legion,” for many demons had entered into him.

  ³¹They begged him that he would not command them to go into the abyss.

  ³²Now there was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain, and they begged him that he would allow them to enter into those. Then he allowed them.

  ³³The demons came out of the man, and entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned.

  ³⁴When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the city and in the country.

  ³⁵People went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.

  ³⁶Those who saw it told them how he who had been possessed by demons was healed.

  ³⁷All the people of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were very much afraid. Then he entered into the boat and returned.

  ³⁸But the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him that he might go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,

  ³⁹“Return to your house, and declare what great things God has done for you.” He went his way, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.

• Gospel · Unmercenaries

  Matthew 10:1, 5–8

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  ¹He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness.

  ⁵Jesus sent these twelve out, and commanded them, saying, “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans.

  ⁶Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

  ⁷As you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’

  ⁸Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Symbol of Faith (Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed)