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title: "September 5, 2020 — Martyr Lupus | Church calendar"
description: "Saturday, September 5, 2020. 23 August (Old Style). Martyr Lupus; Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons. No fast"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2020-09-05"
language: "en"
---

Saturday

# September 5, 2020

23 August (Old Style) · 13th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2020-09-05) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-09-05)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2020-09)

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## Events of the day

- Martyr Lupus; Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons

  Commemoration

- Leave-taking of the feast: Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos

## 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 2:6–9

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  6 We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.

  7 But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

  8 which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.

  9 But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

- Epistle · Theotokos

  Philippians 2:5–11

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  5 Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

  6 who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

  7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

  8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

  9 Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name,

  10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,

  11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

- Gospel

  Matthew 22:15–22

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  15 Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.

  16 They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you aren’t partial to anyone.

  17 Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”

  18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test me, you hypocrites?

  19 Show me the tax money.” They brought to him a denarius.

  20 He asked them, “Whose is this image and inscription?”

  21 They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

  22 When they heard it, they marveled, and left him, and went away.

- Gospel · Theotokos

  Luke 10:38–42, 11:27–28

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Prayer for the departed](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/departed)