July 20, 2034

Events of the day

• Holy Prophet Elijah

  Polyeleos rank

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

  Composite reading — 3 [1] Kings 17.1-23

• Vespers

  Composite reading — 3 [1] Kings 18, 19

• Vespers

  Composite reading — 3 [1] Kings 19.19, 20, 21; 4 [2] Kings 2.1,6-14

• Matins Gospel

  Luke 4:22–30

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  ²²All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

  ²³He said to them, “Doubtless you will tell me this parable, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’ ”

  ²⁴He said, “Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.

  ²⁵But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.

  ²⁶Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

  ²⁷There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.”

  ²⁸They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things.

  ²⁹They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.

  ³⁰But he, passing through the middle of them, went his way.

• Epistle

  1 Corinthians 10:28–11:7

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  ²⁸But if anyone says to you, “This was offered to idols,” don’t eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For “the earth is the Lord’s, with all its fullness.”

  ²⁹Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other’s conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

  ³⁰If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for something I give thanks for?

  ³¹Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

  ³²Give no occasion for stumbling, whether to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

  ³³even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

  ¹Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

  ²Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

  ³But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

  ⁴Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.

  ⁵But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.

  ⁶For if a woman is not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut off or be shaved, let her be covered.

  ⁷For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

• Epistle · Prophet Elijah

  James 5:10–20

• Gospel

  Matthew 16:24–28

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  ²⁴Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

  ²⁵For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

  ²⁶For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

  ²⁷For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

  ²⁸Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste of death, until they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom.”

• Gospel · Prophet Elijah

  Luke 4:22–30

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  ²²All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

  ²³He said to them, “Doubtless you will tell me this parable, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’ ”

  ²⁴He said, “Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.

  ²⁵But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.

  ²⁶Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

  ²⁷There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.”

  ²⁸They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things.

  ²⁹They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.

  ³⁰But he, passing through the middle of them, went his way.

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Prayer to the Holy Spirit “O Heavenly King”