{"day":16,"tone":6,"year":2026,"month":9,"feasts":[],"saints":["Greatmartyr Euphemia the All-Praised","Holy Hieromartyr Cyprian of Carthage (258)","St Ninian, Enlightener of Scotland (432)","Our Holy Father Dorotheos the Solitary of Egypt (4th c.)"],"titles":["Wednesday of the 16th week after Pentecost"],"weekday":3,"readings":[{"source":"Epistle","display":"Galatians 6.2-10","passage":[{"verse":2,"chapter":6,"content":"Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ."},{"verse":3,"chapter":6,"content":"For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself."},{"verse":4,"chapter":6,"content":"But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another."},{"verse":5,"chapter":6,"content":"For every man shall bear his own burden."},{"verse":6,"chapter":6,"content":"Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things."},{"verse":7,"chapter":6,"content":"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."},{"verse":8,"chapter":6,"content":"For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting."},{"verse":9,"chapter":6,"content":"And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."},{"verse":10,"chapter":6,"content":"As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith."}],"short_display":"Gal 6.2-10"},{"source":"Gospel","display":"Mark 7.14-24","passage":[{"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."},{"verse":17,"chapter":7,"content":"And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable."},{"verse":18,"chapter":7,"content":"And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;"},{"verse":19,"chapter":7,"content":"Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?"},{"verse":20,"chapter":7,"content":"And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man."},{"verse":21,"chapter":7,"content":"For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,"},{"verse":22,"chapter":7,"content":"Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:"},{"verse":23,"chapter":7,"content":"All these evil things come from within, and defile the man."},{"verse":24,"chapter":7,"content":"And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid."}],"short_display":"Mark 7.14-24"}],"fast_level":1,"feast_level":2,"service_notes":null,"summary_title":"Greatmartyr Euphemia the All-Praised","fast_exception":0,"fast_level_desc":"Fast","pascha_distance":157,"fast_exception_desc":"","feast_level_description":"Black squigg (6-stich typikon symbol)"}