---
title: "October 30, 2023 — Prophet Hosea | Church calendar"
description: "Monday, October 30, 2023. 17 October (Old Style). Prophet Hosea; Monk-martyr Andrew of Crete. No fast"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2023-10-30"
language: "en"
---

Monday

# October 30, 2023

17 October (Old Style) · 22nd week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2023-10-30) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2023-10-30)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2023-10)

[← October 29](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2023-10-29) [October 31 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2023-10-31)

## Events of the day

- Prophet Hosea; Monk-martyr Andrew of Crete

  Commemoration

## 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

  Colossians 2:13–20

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  13 You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

  14 wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.

  15 Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

  16 Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

  17 which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.

  18 Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

  19 and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.

  20 If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

- Gospel

  Luke 9:18–22

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  18 As he was praying alone, the disciples were with him, and he asked them, “Who do the multitudes say that I am?”

  19 They answered, “ ‘John the Baptizer,’ but others say, ‘Elijah,’ and others, that one of the old prophets has risen again.”

  20 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered, “The Christ of God.”

  21 But he warned them, and commanded them to tell this to no one,

  22 saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.”

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)