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title: "September 25, 2023 — Hieromartyr Autonomus | Church calendar"
description: "Monday, September 25, 2023. 12 September (Old Style). Hieromartyr Autonomus. No fast"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2023-09-25"
language: "en"
---

Monday

# September 25, 2023

12 September (Old Style) · 17th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2023-09-25) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2023-09-25)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2023-09)

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## Events of the day

- Hieromartyr Autonomus

  Commemoration

- Leave-taking of the feast: Nativity 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

  Ephesians 1:22–2:3

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  22 He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,

  23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

  1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

  2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

  3 We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

- 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

  Mark 10:46–52

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  46 They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.

  47 When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out, and say, “Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!”

  48 Many rebuked him, that he should be quiet, but he cried out much more, “You son of David, have mercy on me!”

  49 Jesus stood still, and said, “Call him.” They called the blind man, saying to him, “Cheer up! Get up. He is calling you!”

  50 He, casting away his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus.

  51 Jesus asked him, “What do you want me to do for you?” The blind man said to him, “Rabboni, that I may see again.”

  52 Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your faith has made you well.” Immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus on the way.

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