---
title: "September 13, 2024 — Deposition of the Cincture of the Theotokos"
description: "Friday, September 13, 2024. 31 August (Old Style). Deposition of the Cincture of the Theotokos. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2024-09-13"
language: "en"
---

Friday

# September 13, 2024

31 August (Old Style) · 12th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

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## Events of the day

- Deposition of the Cincture of the Theotokos

  Polyeleos rank

## Fasting

Fast day · Wednesday / Friday

Wednesday and Friday: fast without meat, dairy or eggs. Whether fish is allowed depends on the day's feast — check the church calendar.

- Meat: not allowed
- Dairy & eggs: not allowed
- Fish: not specified
- Oil: allowed
- Wine: allowed

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 7:10–16

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  10 For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

  11 For behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.

  12 So although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be revealed in you in the sight of God.

  13 Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

  14 For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.

  15 His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.

  16 I rejoice that in everything I am confident concerning you.

- Gospel

  Mark 2:18–22

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  18 John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don’t fast?”

  19 Jesus said to them, “Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can’t fast.

  20 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.

  21 No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made.

  22 No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins.”

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Short penitential prayers](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/penitential-short)