Eastern Catholic Daily Readings

Wednesday, Sep 4, 2024: Galatians 6:2-10. Mark 7:14-24. Holy Priest-Martyr Babylas, Bishop of Antioch (250). Holy Prophet Moses Who Saw God.

Tuesday, Sep 3, 2024: Galatians 5:11-21. Mark 7:5-16. Holy Priest-Martyr Anthimus, Bishop of Nicomedia (303). Our Venerable Father Theoctistus, Fellow-Ascetic of the Great Euthymius (467).

Monday, Sep 2, 2024: Galatians 4:28-5:10. Mark 6:54-7:8. Holy Martyrs Mamas. Venerable Father John the Faster, Patriarch of Constantinople.

Sunday, Sep 1, 2024: 2 Corinthians 4:6-15. Matthew 22:35-46 Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Tone 6. Beginning of the Indiction, that is, the New Year. Our Holy Father Symeon the Stylite (459) and his mother Martha. Synaxis of the Most Holy Mother of God of Miasenes. Polyeleos Feast.

Saturday, Aug 31, 2024: Hebrews 9:1-7. Luke 10:38-42. 11:27-28. Placing of the Precious Sash of Our Most Holy Lady the Mother of God in Calcoprateia (942). Polyeleos Feast. 

Friday, Aug 30, 2024: Galatians 4:8-21. Mark 6:45-53. Our Holy Fathers and Patriarchs of Constantinople Alexander (336), John (577), and Paul the Younger (784). Abstention from meat and foods that contain meat.

Thursday, Aug 29, 2024: Acts 13:25-32. Mark 6:14-30. Beheading of the Honourable and Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John. All-Night Vigil Feast. A day when the faithful are highly encouraged to participate in the Divine Liturgy. Day of fast. Traditionally, we do not eat anything in the shape of a head today.

Wednesday, Aug 28, 2024: Galatians 3:15-22. Mark 6:7-13. Our Venerable Father Moses the Black (c. 400). Our Holy Father Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (430). Holy Martyr Gebre Michael, Illuminator of Ethiopia (1855)

Tuesday, Aug 27, 2024: Galatians 2:21-3:7. Mark 6:1-7. Our Venerable Father Pimen.

Monday, Aug 26, 2024: Galatians 2:11-16. Mark 5:24-34. Holy Martyrs Adrian and Natalia (286-305). Vyshhorod Icon of the Mother of God (Our Lady of Vladimir)

Sunday, Aug 25, 2024: 2 Corinthians 1:21-2:4. Matthew 22:1-14. Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Tone 5. Return of the Relics of the Holy Apostle Bartholomew (829-42). Holy Apostle Titus.

Saturday, Aug 24, 2024: 1 Corinthians 4:1-5. Matthew 23:1-12 Holy Priest-Martyr Eutyches. Pidhorets’k Icon of the Mother of God (1772)

Friday, Aug 23, 2024: Galatians 2:6-10. Mark 5:22-24. 5:35-6:1 Leave-taking of the Feast of the Holy Dormition. Holy Martyr Luppus. Holy Priest-Martyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons (193-211). Abstention from meat and foods that contain meat.

Thursday, Aug 22, 2024: Galatians 1:1-10. 1:20-2:5. Mark 5:1-20 Post-feast of the Dormition. Holy Martyr Agathonicus and those with him (286-305). Passing into Eternal Life (1964) of Bishop Symeon (Lukach) Confessor of Krasnoyarsk and Pastor of the Stanyslaviv (Ivano-Frankivsk) Region

Wednesday, Aug 21, 2024: 2 Corinthians 13:3-13. Mark 4:35-41 Post-feast of the Dormition. Holy Apostle Thaddeus. Holy Martyr Bassa (c. 305)

Tuesday, Aug 20, 2024: 2 Corinthians 12:20-13:2. Mark 4:24-34 Post-feast of the Dormition. Holy Prophet Samuel (11th c. BC)

Monday, Aug 19, 2024: 2 Corinthians 12:10-19. Mark 4:10-23. Post-feast of the Dormition. Holy Martyr Andrew the General and those with him (286-305).

Sunday, Aug 18, 2024: 1 Corinthians 16:13-24. Matthew 21:33-42. Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Octoechos Tone 4. Post-feast of the Dormition. Holy Martyrs Florus and Laurus (313-24). 

Saturday, Aug 17, 2024: 1 Corinthians 2:6-9. Matthew 22:15-22. Post-feast of the Dormition. Holy Martyr Myron (249-51).

Friday, Aug 16, 2024: 2 Corinthians 11:5-21. Mark 4:1-9. Post-feast of the Dormition. Transfer from Edessa to Constantinople of the Holy Icon “Not Made with Hands” of Our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ, also Called the Holy Veil, and the Holy Martyr Diomedes (284-305). Abstention from meat and foods that contain meat. 

Thursday, Aug 15, 2024: Philippians 2:5-11. Luke 10:38-42, 11:27-28. Dormition of Our Most Holy Lady, the Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary. Kievan-Caves Icon of the Mother of God (1073), and Zaranytsia. Feast of the Mother of God. Holy Day of Obilgation.

Wednesday, Aug 14, 2024: Hebrews 13:7-16. Matthew 11:27-29. ransfer of the Precious Relics of Our Venerable Father Theodosius, Hegumen of the Monastery of the Caves at Kiev (1091). Fore-feast of the Holy Dormition of the Mother of God. Holy Prophet Micah (8th c. BC). Polyeleos Feast. Dormition Fast. Abstention from meat and foods that contain meat.

Tuesday, Aug 13, 2024: 2 Corinthians 8:16-9:5. Mark 3:13-19. Leave-taking of the Feast of the Holy Transfiguration. Our Venerable Father Maximus the Confessor (662). Dormition Fast.

Monday, Aug 12, 2024: 2 Corinthians 8:7-15. Mark 3:6-12. Post-feast of the Transfiguration. Holy Martyrs Photius and Anicetas (284-305). Dormition Fast. 

Sunday, Aug 11, 2024: 1 Corinthians 15:1-11. Matthew 19:16-26. Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost. Octoechos Tone 3. Post-feast of the Transfiguration. Holy Martyr Euplus (304). Dormition Fast.