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title: "September 24, 2024 — St Theodora of Alexandria"
description: "Tuesday, September 24, 2024. 11 September (Old Style). St Theodora of Alexandria; St Silouan the Athonite. No fast"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2024-09-24"
language: "en"
---

Tuesday

# September 24, 2024

11 September (Old Style) · 14th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2024-09-24) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2024-09-24)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2024-09)

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## Events of the day

- St Theodora of Alexandria; St Silouan the Athonite

  Commemoration

- Afterfeast: 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

  2 Corinthians 12:20–13:2

- Gospel

  Mark 4:24–34

  **Show the text**

  24 He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you who hear.

  25 For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.”

  26 He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,

  27 and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how.

  28 For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

  29 But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

  30 He said, “How will we liken God’s Kingdom? Or with what parable will we illustrate it?

  31 It’s like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth,

  32 yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow.”

  33 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.

  34 Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

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)