{"day":16,"tone":5,"year":2026,"month":7,"feasts":[],"saints":["Hieromartyr Athenogenes, Bishop of Heracleopolis"],"titles":["Thursday of the 7th week after Pentecost"],"weekday":4,"readings":[{"source":"Epistle","display":"1 Corinthians 7.24-35","passage":[{"verse":24,"chapter":7,"content":"Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God."},{"verse":25,"chapter":7,"content":"Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful."},{"verse":26,"chapter":7,"content":"I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be."},{"verse":27,"chapter":7,"content":"Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife."},{"verse":28,"chapter":7,"content":"But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you."},{"verse":29,"chapter":7,"content":"But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;"},{"verse":30,"chapter":7,"content":"And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;"},{"verse":31,"chapter":7,"content":"And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away."},{"verse":32,"chapter":7,"content":"But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:"},{"verse":33,"chapter":7,"content":"But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife."},{"verse":34,"chapter":7,"content":"There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband."},{"verse":35,"chapter":7,"content":"And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction."}],"short_display":"1 Cor 7.24-35"},{"source":"Gospel","display":"Matthew 15.12-21","passage":[{"verse":12,"chapter":15,"content":"Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?"},{"verse":13,"chapter":15,"content":"But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up."},{"verse":14,"chapter":15,"content":"Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."},{"verse":15,"chapter":15,"content":"Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable."},{"verse":16,"chapter":15,"content":"And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?"},{"verse":17,"chapter":15,"content":"Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?"},{"verse":18,"chapter":15,"content":"But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man."},{"verse":19,"chapter":15,"content":"For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:"},{"verse":20,"chapter":15,"content":"These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man."},{"verse":21,"chapter":15,"content":"Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon."}],"short_display":"Matt 15.12-21"}],"fast_level":0,"feast_level":0,"service_notes":null,"summary_title":"Hieromartyr Athenogenes, Bishop of Heracleopolis","fast_exception":0,"fast_level_desc":"No Fast","pascha_distance":95,"fast_exception_desc":"","feast_level_description":"Liturgy"}