{"day":30,"tone":8,"year":2026,"month":9,"feasts":[],"saints":["Hieromartyr Gregory of Armenia","Ven. Gregory of Vologda","Venerable Gregory of Pelshma (1441 or 1451)","Our Father among the Saints Michael, Metropolitan of Kiev (992)"],"titles":["Wednesday of the 18th week after Pentecost"],"weekday":3,"readings":[{"source":"Epistle","display":"Ephesians 5.25-33","passage":[{"verse":25,"chapter":5,"content":"Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;"},{"verse":26,"chapter":5,"content":"That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,"},{"verse":27,"chapter":5,"content":"That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish."},{"verse":28,"chapter":5,"content":"So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself."},{"verse":29,"chapter":5,"content":"For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:"},{"verse":30,"chapter":5,"content":"For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones."},{"verse":31,"chapter":5,"content":"For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh."},{"verse":32,"chapter":5,"content":"This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church."},{"verse":33,"chapter":5,"content":"Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband."}],"short_display":"Eph 5.25-33"},{"source":"Gospel","display":"Luke 5.33-39","passage":[{"verse":33,"chapter":5,"content":"And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink?"},{"verse":34,"chapter":5,"content":"And he said unto them, Can ye make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?"},{"verse":35,"chapter":5,"content":"But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days."},{"verse":36,"chapter":5,"content":"And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old."},{"verse":37,"chapter":5,"content":"And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish."},{"verse":38,"chapter":5,"content":"But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved."},{"verse":39,"chapter":5,"content":"No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better."}],"short_display":"Luke 5.33-39"}],"fast_level":1,"feast_level":3,"service_notes":null,"summary_title":"Hieromartyr Gregory of Armenia; Ven. Gregory of Vologda","fast_exception":0,"fast_level_desc":"Fast","pascha_distance":171,"fast_exception_desc":"","feast_level_description":"Red squigg (doxology typikon symbol)"}