From the calendar, 2027.
Friday, July 9
Hieromartyr Pancratius, Bishop of Taormina
Strict fastNo meat, dairy, eggs, fish, wine or oil.
Appointed to be read.
Epistle.
Romans 9:6–19
2 min read
6But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For they are not all Israel who are of Israel,
7nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, 'In Isaac your seed shall be called.'
8That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as the seed.
9For this is the word of promise: 'At this time I will come and Sarah shall have a son.'
10And not only this, but when Rebecca also had conceived by one man, even by our father Isaac
11(for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who calls),
12it was said to her, 'The older shall serve the younger.'
13As it is written, 'Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.'
14What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not!
15For He says to Moses, 'I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.'
16So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.
17For the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, 'For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.'
18Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens.
19You will say to me then, 'Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?'
Gospel.
Matthew 10:32–36, 11:1
1 min read
32'Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.
33But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.
34'Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword.
35For I have come to ' set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law';
36and 'a man's enemies will be those of his own household.'
11:1Now it came to pass, when Jesus finished commanding His twelve disciples, that He departed from there to teach and to preach in their cities.
What this is.
The Scripture the Orthodox Church reads each day, the saints it remembers, and a study aid that answers from Scripture and the Fathers and shows its sources.
Divine Liturgy. The Church's main service, at which Holy Communion is given. Its Epistle and Gospel are what most people mean by the day's readings.
Matins. The morning service of praise. On Sundays and feasts it has a Gospel of its own.
Vespers. The evening service. The Church's day begins at sunset, so a feast's Vespers is served the evening before.
Hours. Short services of psalms and prayer at set times of the day: the First, Third, Sixth and Ninth Hours.
Tone. The hymns of the week are sung in one of eight tones, or melodies, which follow each other week by week.
New Calendar. Fixed feasts are kept on the civil date, as in the OCA and the Antiochian Archdiocese. Churches on the Old Calendar keep them 13 days later. Pascha is the same for both.