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title: "Today in the Church calendar — Orthodoxy"
description: "Hieromartyr Cyprian and Martyr Justina; Blessed Andrew the Fool-for-Christ. No fast"
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# Today in the Church calendar

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[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-10)

Thursday

## October 15 2026

2 October (Old Style) · 20th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

### Events of the day

- Hieromartyr Cyprian and Martyr Justina; Blessed Andrew the Fool-for-Christ

  Commemoration

### Fasting

No fast

No fast today.

Food rules are reference church information. Agree your personal measure of fasting with a priest; consult a doctor if you are ill.

### Readings of the day

- Epistle

  Philippians 3:1–8

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  1 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.

  2 Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.

  3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

  4 though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:

  5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

  6 concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

  7 However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.

  8 Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

- Gospel

  Luke 6:12–19

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  12 In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.

  13 When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:

  14 Simon, whom he also named Peter; Andrew, his brother; James; John; Philip; Bartholomew;

  15 Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Simon, who was called the Zealot;

  16 Judas the son of James; and Judas Iscariot, who also became a traitor.

  17 He came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases;

  18 as well as those who were troubled by unclean spirits, and they were being healed.

  19 All the multitude sought to touch him, for power came out of him and healed them all.

Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, Julian calendar. Text: World English Bible.

### Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Prayer to the Holy Spirit “O Heavenly King”](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/heavenly-king)

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