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title: "September 5, 2025 — Martyr Lupus | Church calendar"
description: "Friday, September 5, 2025. 23 August (Old Style). Martyr Lupus; Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2025-09-05"
language: "en"
---

Friday

# September 5, 2025

23 August (Old Style) · 13th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2025-09-05) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2025-09-05)

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## Events of the day

- Martyr Lupus; Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons

  Commemoration

- Leave-taking of the feast: Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos

## 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 11:5–21

- Epistle · Theotokos

  Philippians 2:5–11

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  5 Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

  6 who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

  7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

  8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

  9 Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name,

  10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,

  11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

- Gospel

  Mark 4:1–9

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  1 Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea.

  2 He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,

  3 “Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,

  4 and as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.

  5 Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.

  6 When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

  7 Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

  8 Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.”

  9 He said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”

- Gospel · Theotokos

  Luke 10:38–42, 11:27–28

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)