{"day":17,"tone":6,"year":2026,"month":9,"feasts":[],"saints":["Martyr Sophia and Daughters Faith, Hope, and Love","Our Holy Father Lambert, Bishop of Maastricht (705)"],"titles":["Thursday of the 16th week after Pentecost"],"weekday":4,"readings":[{"source":"Epistle","display":"Ephesians 1.1-9","passage":[{"verse":1,"chapter":1,"content":"Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:"},{"verse":2,"chapter":1,"content":"Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ."},{"verse":3,"chapter":1,"content":"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:"},{"verse":4,"chapter":1,"content":"According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:"},{"verse":5,"chapter":1,"content":"Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,"},{"verse":6,"chapter":1,"content":"To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved."},{"verse":7,"chapter":1,"content":"In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;"},{"verse":8,"chapter":1,"content":"Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;"},{"verse":9,"chapter":1,"content":"Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:"}],"short_display":"Eph 1.1-9"},{"source":"Gospel","display":"Mark 7.24-30","passage":[{"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."},{"verse":25,"chapter":7,"content":"For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:"},{"verse":26,"chapter":7,"content":"The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter."},{"verse":27,"chapter":7,"content":"But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it unto the dogs."},{"verse":28,"chapter":7,"content":"And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs."},{"verse":29,"chapter":7,"content":"And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter."},{"verse":30,"chapter":7,"content":"And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed."}],"short_display":"Mark 7.24-30"}],"fast_level":0,"feast_level":0,"service_notes":null,"summary_title":"Martyr Sophia and Daughters Faith, Hope, and Love","fast_exception":0,"fast_level_desc":"No Fast","pascha_distance":158,"fast_exception_desc":"","feast_level_description":"Liturgy"}