---
title: "October 23, 2020 — Martyrs Eulampius and Eulampia"
description: "Friday, October 23, 2020. 10 October (Old Style). Martyrs Eulampius and Eulampia. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2020-10-23"
language: "en"
---

Friday

# October 23, 2020

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

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2020-10-23) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-10-23)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2020-10)

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## Events of the day

- Martyrs Eulampius and Eulampia

  Commemoration

## Fasting

Fast day · Wednesday / Friday

Wednesday and Friday: fast without meat, dairy or eggs. Whether fish is allowed depends on the day's feast — check the church calendar.

- Meat: not allowed
- Dairy & eggs: not allowed
- Fish: not specified
- Oil: allowed
- Wine: allowed

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 3:8–19

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  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

  9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

  10 that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,

  11 if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

  12 Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

  13 Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

  14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

  15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

  16 Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let’s walk by the same rule. Let’s be of the same mind.

  17 Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.

  18 For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,

  19 whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

- Gospel

  Luke 7:31–35

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  31 “To what then should I compare the people of this generation? What are they like?

  32 They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call to one another, saying, ‘We piped to you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned, and you didn’t weep.’

  33 For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’

  34 The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

  35 Wisdom is justified by all her children.”

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Short penitential prayers](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/penitential-short)