{"day":31,"tone":4,"year":2026,"month":8,"feasts":[],"saints":["Sash of the Theotokos","The Placing of the Sash of the Most Holy Theotokos (395-408? 886- 912?)","Hieromartyr Cyprian, bishop of Carthage (258)","St Gennadius, Patriarch of Constantinople (471)","Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne (651)"],"titles":["Monday of the 14th week after Pentecost"],"weekday":1,"readings":[{"source":"Epistle","display":"2 Corinthians 12.10-19","passage":[{"verse":10,"chapter":12,"content":"Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong."},{"verse":11,"chapter":12,"content":"I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing."},{"verse":12,"chapter":12,"content":"Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds."},{"verse":13,"chapter":12,"content":"For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong."},{"verse":14,"chapter":12,"content":"Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children."},{"verse":15,"chapter":12,"content":"And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved."},{"verse":16,"chapter":12,"content":"But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile."},{"verse":17,"chapter":12,"content":"Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?"},{"verse":18,"chapter":12,"content":"I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?"},{"verse":19,"chapter":12,"content":"Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying."}],"short_display":"2 Cor 12.10-19"},{"source":"Gospel","display":"Mark 4.10-23","passage":[{"verse":10,"chapter":4,"content":"And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable."},{"verse":11,"chapter":4,"content":"And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:"},{"verse":12,"chapter":4,"content":"That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them."},{"verse":13,"chapter":4,"content":"And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?"},{"verse":14,"chapter":4,"content":"The sower soweth the word."},{"verse":15,"chapter":4,"content":"And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts."},{"verse":16,"chapter":4,"content":"And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness;"},{"verse":17,"chapter":4,"content":"And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they are offended."},{"verse":18,"chapter":4,"content":"And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word,"},{"verse":19,"chapter":4,"content":"And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful."},{"verse":20,"chapter":4,"content":"And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred."},{"verse":21,"chapter":4,"content":"And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?"},{"verse":22,"chapter":4,"content":"For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad."},{"verse":23,"chapter":4,"content":"If any man have ears to hear, let him hear."}],"short_display":"Mark 4.10-23"}],"fast_level":0,"feast_level":0,"service_notes":null,"summary_title":"Sash of the Theotokos","fast_exception":0,"fast_level_desc":"No Fast","pascha_distance":141,"fast_exception_desc":"","feast_level_description":"Liturgy"}