---
title: "July 30, 2024 — Great-martyr Marina (Margaret)"
description: "Tuesday, July 30, 2024. 17 July (Old Style). Great-martyr Marina (Margaret). No fast"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2024-07-30"
language: "en"
---

Tuesday

# July 30, 2024

17 July (Old Style) · 6th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2024-07-30) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2024-07-30)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2024-07)

[← July 29](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2024-07-29) [July 31 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2024-07-31)

## Events of the day

- Great-martyr Marina (Margaret)

  Polyeleos rank

## 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

  1 Corinthians 1:1–9

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  1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

  2 to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

  3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

  4 I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;

  5 that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;

  6 even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

  7 so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

  8 who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  9 God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

- Gospel

  Matthew 13:24–30

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  24 He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

  25 but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.

  26 But when the blade sprang up and produced fruit, then the darnel weeds appeared also.

  27 The servants of the householder came and said to him, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where did these darnel weeds come from?’

  28 “He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ “The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and gather them up?’

  29 “But he said, ‘No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them.

  30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ ”

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)