Daily Scripture
ORTHODOX BIBLE STUDY
A short guide to this app — and to what the Orthodox calendar, fasts, and saints are all about.
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This app is a study companion built around the Orthodox liturgical year. It shows the daily Scripture readings, the current fasting rule, and the saints commemorated today, and it lets you read the Bible in four languages. It is not a prayer book, and it is not a substitute for a parish or a spiritual father.
Whichever you are, everything below is meant to help you find your way around.
One line per section
Today
A snapshot of today — the fast rule, the saints of the day, and the readings appointed by the Church.
Readings
The full daily lectionary. Not a plan you pick; this is what the Orthodox Church reads on this date.
Calendar
Jump to any date to see its commemorations, readings, and fast level.
Saints
Browse or search the saints. A saint's day is when the Church remembers them, usually the day of their repose.
Fasting
The current fasting rule, with a short explanation of what it means in practice.
Bible
Read whole books of Scripture in English, Dutch, Russian, or Thai.
Notes
Attach a note to a verse or a chapter. Drafts save to your device even before you log in.
The ideas the app quietly assumes
The Orthodox year turns around Pascha (Easter), not Christmas. The date of Pascha decides the dates of Lent, Pentecost, and half of everything else you see on the calendar.
A movable Paschal cycle floats each year with the date of Pascha. A fixed calendar cycle (like feasts tied to December 25) stays in place. Every day is the intersection of both, which is why the same civil date can feel very different from one year to the next.
Alongside the civil date you may see a Julian ("Old Style") date. Many Orthodox jurisdictions still reckon fixed feasts by the old Julian calendar, which currently runs 13 days behind. This is a living tradition, not a bug.
Orthodox fasting is a shared rhythm: usually no meat, dairy, fish, oil, or wine on the strictest days, with wine and oil allowed on lighter days. There are four fasting seasons — Great Lent, the Apostles' Fast, the Dormition Fast, and the Nativity Fast — plus Wednesdays and Fridays through most of the year.
The calendar lists saints and events remembered on a given date, not because the Church runs out of names, but because Orthodoxy takes seriously the "great cloud of witnesses" of Hebrews 12:1. Saints are seen as living intercessors, not distant historical figures.
The calendar shipped with this app follows the OCA / Russian-tradition practice. Greek, Antiochian, and other Orthodox jurisdictions overlap almost entirely, but you may see small differences in feast rank, fasting dispensations, or particular commemorations.
Plain-English translations of the jargon in the UI
Divine Liturgy — the main Sunday and feast-day service, culminating in Holy Communion.
A Lenten weekday service where the faithful receive from Gifts consecrated on the preceding Sunday.
The morning and evening prayer services of the Church.
Rank markers on the calendar. They tell you how solemnly a feast is kept — from a simple doxology at Matins up to an all-night vigil for the great feasts.
The specific bounded passage read on a given day (e.g. "Matthew 5:14–22").
The 40-day fast before Holy Week and Pascha.
The two Sundays before Lent, when meat and then dairy are gradually set aside.
Bright Week is the week after Pascha; Antipascha is the Sunday that closes it, also called Thomas Sunday.
"God-bearer" — the traditional title for the Virgin Mary.
Beyond the app
None of these sites are affiliated with this app; they are simply places where a newcomer can usefully read next.
There is no substitute for showing up. Most parishes welcome visitors quietly — you can stand at the back and just watch. The jurisdictional sites below have parish finders.
Questions about fasting, confession, or receiving the sacraments belong to a priest, not to an app. This is a study aid, not spiritual direction.