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title: "August 31, 2021 — Martyrs Florus and Laurus"
description: "Tuesday, August 31, 2021. 18 August (Old Style). Martyrs Florus and Laurus. No fast"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2021-08-31"
language: "en"
---

Tuesday

# August 31, 2021

18 August (Old Style) · 11th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2021-08-31) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2021-08-31)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2021-08)

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## Events of the day

- Martyrs Florus and Laurus

  Commemoration

- Afterfeast: 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

  2 Corinthians 2:14–3:3

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  14 Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

  15 For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved and in those who perish:

  16 to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

  17 For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

  1 Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?

  2 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,

  3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

- Gospel

  Matthew 23:23–28

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  23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

  24 You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!

  25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.

  26 You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.

  27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

  28 Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [The Jesus Prayer](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/jesus-prayer)