From the calendar, 2028.
Wednesday, March 15
Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent
Strict fastNo meat, dairy, eggs, fish, wine or oil.
Vespers Old Testament.
Genesis 7:6–9
1 min read
6Now Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.
7Then Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, entered the ark because of the flood waters.
8Also the clean and unclean birds, the clean and unclean cattle, and everything that creeps on the earth,
9entered with Noah into the ark, two by two, male and female, as God commanded him.
Vespers Old Testament.
Proverbs of Solomon 9:12–18 (LXX) (Proverbs)
1 min read
12My son, if you become wise in yourself, you shall also be wise toward your neighbor; But if you prove to be evil, you alone will go through troubles.
13He who supports himself with lies will shepherd winds And chase flying birds;
14For he abandoned the ways of his own vineyard And strayed from paths of his own farming;
15And he will pass through a waterless desert, A land assigned to drought, And he gathers barrenness with his hands.
16A woman in need of a morsel is without discernment and overbold; She has no sense of shame.
17She sits upon the doors of her own house, Upon a seat openly in the streets,
18Calling to those who pass by And who go straight along their paths,
Hours Old Testament.
Isaiah 10:12–20
2 min read
12But it shall come to pass, when the Lord has completed all He will do on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, He will go against the arrogant heart of the king of the Assyrians and the glory of his haughty looks.
13For he said, 'I shall act in my strength and by the wisdom of my understanding. I also shall remove the boundaries of the nations and plunder their strength. I shall shake their inhabited cities.
14I shall overtake with my hand all the inhabited world as a nest, and take them as eggs that have been left. There is no one who can escape or oppose me.'
15Shall the ax glorify itself without him who chops with it? Or shall the saw exalt itself without him who saws with it? It is likewise if one should lift a rod or a piece of wood.
16But it shall not be so, for the Lord of hosts will send dishonor against your honor; and He will kindle a burning fire against your glory.
17So the Light of Israel will be as a fire, and He will sanctify him with burning fire; and it will devour the wood like grass on that day.
18The mountains, the hills, and the forests will be consumed, and devour both soul and body, and he who flees will be like one fleeing from a burning flame.
19Then the remnant will be few in number, and a child shall write them.
20It shall come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel and those of Jacob who were saved will never again obey those who wronged them; but they will trust in God, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
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.