Fasting Rules
Meat
Abstain
Fish
Allowed
Dairy
Abstain
Oil
Allowed
Wine
Allowed
Saints & Commemorations
Holy Apostle Thomas
One of the Twelve Apostles, he was a Galilean by birth. His name means “twin.” The twentieth chapter of St John’s Gospel describes how, when he doubted the appearance of the Risen Lord, Christ appeared to him again, saying “Reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side; and be not faithless, but believing,” at which Thomas cried out “My Lord and my God!” Through this one event the Holy Scriptures attest that Christ is risen bodily, not merely as a spirit, as some heresies claim; and that He is in fact God. After Penteco
One of the Twelve Apostles, he was a Galilean by birth. His name means “twin.” The twentieth chapter of St John’s Gospel describes how, when he doubted the appearance of the Risen Lord, Christ appeared to him again, saying “Reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side; and be not faithless, but believing,” at which Thomas cried out “My Lord and my God!” Through this one event the Holy Scriptures attest that Christ is risen bodily, not merely as a spirit, as some heresies claim; and that He is in fact God. After Pentecost, St Thomas proclaimed the Gospel in the East, and established the Christian faith as far as India, where the small remnant of the ancient Church still traces its foundation to him. According to some accounts he met a martyr’s end; according to others, he reposed in peace. St John Chrysostom mentions that his tomb was in Edessa in Syria; his relics may have been translated there from India in the fourth century.
Repose of St Innocent, Enlightener of Alaska and Siberia, Metropolitan of Moscow (1879)
Scripture Readings
☩Epistle
Galatians 6:2-10
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Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
3
For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
4
But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
5
For every man shall bear his own burden.
6
Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.
7
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
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For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
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And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
10
As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
☩Gospel
Luke 6:46-7:1
46
And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
47
Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
48
He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.
49
But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.
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Now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people, he entered into Capernaum.
Liturgical data sourced from OCA.org and orthocal.info