{"day":15,"tone":6,"year":2026,"month":9,"feasts":[],"saints":["Greatmartyr Nicetas the Goth","Holy Martyr Porphyrius (361)."],"titles":["Tuesday of the 16th week after Pentecost"],"weekday":2,"readings":[{"source":"Epistle","display":"Galatians 5.11-21","passage":[{"verse":11,"chapter":5,"content":"And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased."},{"verse":12,"chapter":5,"content":"I would they were even cut off which trouble you."},{"verse":13,"chapter":5,"content":"For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another."},{"verse":14,"chapter":5,"content":"For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."},{"verse":15,"chapter":5,"content":"But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another."},{"verse":16,"chapter":5,"content":"This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh."},{"verse":17,"chapter":5,"content":"For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would."},{"verse":18,"chapter":5,"content":"But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law."},{"verse":19,"chapter":5,"content":"Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,"},{"verse":20,"chapter":5,"content":"Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,"},{"verse":21,"chapter":5,"content":"Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God."}],"short_display":"Gal 5.11-21"},{"source":"Gospel","display":"Mark 7.5-16","passage":[{"verse":5,"chapter":7,"content":"Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?"},{"verse":6,"chapter":7,"content":"He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me."},{"verse":7,"chapter":7,"content":"Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men."},{"verse":8,"chapter":7,"content":"For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do."},{"verse":9,"chapter":7,"content":"And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition."},{"verse":10,"chapter":7,"content":"For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:"},{"verse":11,"chapter":7,"content":"But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free."},{"verse":12,"chapter":7,"content":"And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;"},{"verse":13,"chapter":7,"content":"Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye."},{"verse":14,"chapter":7,"content":"And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:"},{"verse":15,"chapter":7,"content":"There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man."},{"verse":16,"chapter":7,"content":"If any man have ears to hear, let him hear."}],"short_display":"Mark 7.5-16"}],"fast_level":0,"feast_level":2,"service_notes":null,"summary_title":"Greatmartyr Nicetas the Goth","fast_exception":0,"fast_level_desc":"No Fast","pascha_distance":156,"fast_exception_desc":"","feast_level_description":"Black squigg (6-stich typikon symbol)"}