☦ Orthodox Calendar — Gregorian calendar
Gregorian calendarJulian calendar☦ Saints of the day
- Greatmartyr Artemius at Antioch
- Ven. Matrona of Chios
- St Gerasimus the New, ascetic of Cephalonia (1579)
- St Jonah, Bishop of Manchuria (1925) (October 7 OC)
📖 Readings of the day
Epistle — Ephesians 5.25-33
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27 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.
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
31 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.
32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Gospel — Luke 9.44-50
44 Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men.
45 But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying.
46 Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest.
47 And Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart, took a child, and set him by him,
48 And said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this child in my name receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me receiveth him that sent me: for he that is least among you all, the same shall be great.
49 And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we forbad him, because he followeth not with us.
50 And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us.
✠ Continuous Gospel reading
Mark 7 KJV
1 Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.
2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault. {defiled: or, common}
3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash {their} hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. {oft: or, diligently: in the original, with the fist: Theophylact, up to the elbow}
4 And {when they come} from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, {as} the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables. {pots: sextarius is about a pint and an half} {tables: or, beds}
5 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?
6 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.
7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching {for} doctrines the commandments of men.
8 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.
9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. {reject: or, frustrate}
10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
11 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
12 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
13 And when he had called all the people {unto him}, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one {of you}, and understand:
14 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.
15 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
16 And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
17 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;
18 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
19 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
20 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
21 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: {covetousness...: Gr. covetousnesses, wickednesses}
22 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
23 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.
24 For a {certain} woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:
25 The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter. {Greek: or, Gentile}
26 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.
27 And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
28 And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.
29 And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.
30 And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.
31 And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.
32 And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;
33 And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
34 And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
35 And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published {it};
36 And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
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