---
title: "September 28, 2023 — Great-martyr Nicetas the Goth"
description: "Thursday, September 28, 2023. 15 September (Old Style). Great-martyr Nicetas the Goth. No fast"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2023-09-28"
language: "en"
---

Thursday

# September 28, 2023

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

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2023-09-28) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2023-09-28)

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

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## Events of the day

- Great-martyr Nicetas the Goth

  Polyeleos rank

- Afterfeast: Exaltation of the Precious and Life-giving Cross

## 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 4:14–19

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  14 that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

  15 but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,

  16 from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

  17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

  18 being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

  19 They, having become callous, gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

- Gospel

  Mark 11:27–33

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  27 They came again to Jerusalem, and as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders came to him,

  28 and they began saying to him, “By what authority do you do these things? Or who gave you this authority to do these things?”

  29 Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.

  30 The baptism of John—was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me.”

  31 They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we should say, ‘From heaven;’ he will say, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’

  32 If we should say, ‘From men’ ”—they feared the people, for all held John to really be a prophet.

  33 They answered Jesus, “We don’t know.” Jesus said to them, “Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.”

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Prayer to the Holy Spirit “O Heavenly King”](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/heavenly-king)