Fasting Rules
Meat
Allowed
Fish
Allowed
Dairy
Allowed
Oil
Allowed
Wine
Allowed
Saints & Commemorations
Great Martyr Marina
She was born in Antioch of Pisidia to pagan parents; her father was a pagan priest. When she was about twelve years old her mother died, and she was given into the care of a woman who told her of the Gospel of Christ. She was immediately filled with love for Christ and consecrated her life to His service.
She was born in Antioch of Pisidia to pagan parents; her father was a pagan priest. When she was about twelve years old her mother died, and she was given into the care of a woman who told her of the Gospel of Christ. She was immediately filled with love for Christ and consecrated her life to His service. Her father, hearing of this, was furious and disowned her. When she was fifteen years old, she was brought before the governor Olymbrius, who first desired to marry her and, when she refused, ordered her to make sacrifice to the idols. She refused and proclaimed herself a Christian. For this she was harshly tortured, imprisoned, and finally beheaded. While she was in prison she was tormented by demons, but drove them away by her prayers. For this reason she is especially invoked for deliverance from demonic possession. One of her hands is preserved at Vatopedi Monastery on the Holy Mountain, and some of her relics are preserved at an Albanian Monastery dedicated to her.
Holy Royal Martyrs of Russia (Tsar Nicholas II and His Family) (1918)
Scripture Readings
☩Epistle
Romans 6:11-17
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Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
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Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
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For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
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What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
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Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
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But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
☩Gospel
Matthew 8:14-23
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And when Jesus was come into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother laid, and sick of a fever.
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And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.
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When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:
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That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.
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Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the other side.
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And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
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And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
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And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
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But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.
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And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him.
Liturgical data sourced from OCA.org and orthocal.info