{"day":29,"tone":7,"year":2026,"month":7,"feasts":[],"saints":["Martyr Callinicus of Gangra","Holy Martyr Seraphima (2nd c.)"],"titles":["Wednesday of the 9th week after Pentecost"],"weekday":3,"readings":[{"source":"Epistle","display":"1 Corinthians 13.4-14.5","passage":[{"verse":4,"chapter":13,"content":"Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,"},{"verse":5,"chapter":13,"content":"Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;"},{"verse":6,"chapter":13,"content":"Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;"},{"verse":7,"chapter":13,"content":"Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things."},{"verse":8,"chapter":13,"content":"Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away."},{"verse":9,"chapter":13,"content":"For we know in part, and we prophesy in part."},{"verse":10,"chapter":13,"content":"But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away."},{"verse":11,"chapter":13,"content":"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things."},{"verse":12,"chapter":13,"content":"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known."},{"verse":13,"chapter":13,"content":"And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity."},{"verse":1,"chapter":14,"content":"Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy."},{"verse":2,"chapter":14,"content":"For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries."},{"verse":3,"chapter":14,"content":"But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort."},{"verse":4,"chapter":14,"content":"He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church."},{"verse":5,"chapter":14,"content":"I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying."}],"short_display":"1 Cor 13.4-14.5"},{"source":"Gospel","display":"Matthew 20.1-16","passage":[{"verse":1,"chapter":20,"content":"For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard."},{"verse":2,"chapter":20,"content":"And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard."},{"verse":3,"chapter":20,"content":"And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,"},{"verse":4,"chapter":20,"content":"And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way."},{"verse":5,"chapter":20,"content":"Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise."},{"verse":6,"chapter":20,"content":"And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?"},{"verse":7,"chapter":20,"content":"They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive."},{"verse":8,"chapter":20,"content":"So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first."},{"verse":9,"chapter":20,"content":"And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny."},{"verse":10,"chapter":20,"content":"But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny."},{"verse":11,"chapter":20,"content":"And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,"},{"verse":12,"chapter":20,"content":"Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day."},{"verse":13,"chapter":20,"content":"But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?"},{"verse":14,"chapter":20,"content":"Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee."},{"verse":15,"chapter":20,"content":"Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?"},{"verse":16,"chapter":20,"content":"So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen."}],"short_display":"Matt 20.1-16"}],"fast_level":1,"feast_level":0,"service_notes":null,"summary_title":"Martyr Callinicus of Gangra","fast_exception":0,"fast_level_desc":"Fast","pascha_distance":108,"fast_exception_desc":"","feast_level_description":"Liturgy"}