September 27, 2023 
Venerable Sabbatios of Solovki (1435)
New Martyr Aquilina of Thessalonika
Apostles of the 70: Mark, Aristarchus, and Zeno (1st)
Martyr Callistratus and 49 Martyrs of Carthage (304)
Anthimus the Georgian of Wallachia
Martyr Epicharis of Rome (3rd)
Venerable Ignatius, abbot in Asia Minor (963-975)
St Flavian, patriarch of Antioch (381-404), and with him Theodotus and Pelagia
New Hieromartyr Peter (Polyansky), metropolitan of Krutitsa (1937)
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Wednesday of the 17th week after Pentecost
Eph 3.8-21 (Epistle)
Brethren, to me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ; to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places, according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through faith in Him. Therefore I ask that you do not lose heart at my tribulations for you, which is your glory. For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height – to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Luke 5.33-39 (Gospel)
At that time, the Pharisees came to Jesus and said, “Why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and likewise those of the Pharisees, but Yours eat and drink?” And He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; then they will fast in those days. Then He spoke a parable to them: “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved. And no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new; for he says, ‘The old is better.’