---
title: "July 27, 2020 — Apostle Aquila of the Seventy"
description: "Monday, July 27, 2020. 14 July (Old Style). Apostle Aquila of the Seventy. No fast"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2020-07-27"
language: "en"
---

Monday

# July 27, 2020

14 July (Old Style) · 8th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2020-07-27) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-07-27)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2020-07)

[← July 26](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2020-07-26) [July 28 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2020-07-28)

## Events of the day

- Apostle Aquila of the Seventy

  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

  1 Corinthians 9:13–18

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  13 Don’t you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?

  14 Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.

  15 But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

  16 For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.

  17 For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

  18 What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

- Gospel

  Matthew 16:1–6

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  1 The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

  2 But he answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’

  3 In the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can’t discern the signs of the times!

  4 An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” He left them, and departed.

  5 The disciples came to the other side and had forgotten to take bread.

  6 Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Morning prayer of St Macarius the Great](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/morning-macarius)