{"day":20,"tone":2,"year":2026,"month":8,"feasts":[],"saints":["Prophet Samuel","Hieromartyr Philip, Bishop of Heraklion, and those with him (2nd c.)"],"titles":["Thursday of the 12th week after Pentecost"],"weekday":4,"readings":[{"source":"Epistle","display":"2 Corinthians 7.1-10","passage":[{"verse":1,"chapter":7,"content":"Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God."},{"verse":2,"chapter":7,"content":"Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man."},{"verse":3,"chapter":7,"content":"I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you."},{"verse":4,"chapter":7,"content":"Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation."},{"verse":5,"chapter":7,"content":"For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears."},{"verse":6,"chapter":7,"content":"Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;"},{"verse":7,"chapter":7,"content":"And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more."},{"verse":8,"chapter":7,"content":"For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season."},{"verse":9,"chapter":7,"content":"Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing."},{"verse":10,"chapter":7,"content":"For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death."}],"short_display":"2 Cor 7.1-10"},{"source":"Gospel","display":"Mark 1.29-35","passage":[{"verse":29,"chapter":1,"content":"And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John."},{"verse":30,"chapter":1,"content":"But Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her."},{"verse":31,"chapter":1,"content":"And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them."},{"verse":32,"chapter":1,"content":"And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils."},{"verse":33,"chapter":1,"content":"And all the city was gathered together at the door."},{"verse":34,"chapter":1,"content":"And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew him."},{"verse":35,"chapter":1,"content":"And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed."}],"short_display":"Mark 1.29-35"}],"fast_level":0,"feast_level":0,"service_notes":null,"summary_title":"Prophet Samuel","fast_exception":0,"fast_level_desc":"No Fast","pascha_distance":130,"fast_exception_desc":"","feast_level_description":"Liturgy"}