Fasting Rules
Meat
Abstain
Fish
Allowed
Dairy
Abstain
Oil
Allowed
Wine
Allowed
Saints & Commemorations
Holy Apostle and Evangelist Mathew
Scripture Readings
☩Epistle
Colossians 2:20-3:3
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Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
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(Touch not; taste not; handle not;
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Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
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Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.
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If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
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Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
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For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
☩Gospel
Luke 14:25-35
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And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them,
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If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
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And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
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For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
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Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,
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Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
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Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?
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Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.
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So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
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Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
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It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Liturgical data sourced from OCA.org and orthocal.info