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title: "October 3, 2025 — Great-martyr Eustathius Placidas"
description: "Friday, October 3, 2025. 20 September (Old Style). Great-martyr Eustathius Placidas; Martyrs Prince Michael of Chernigov and his boyar Theodore. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2025-10-03"
language: "en"
---

Friday

# October 3, 2025

20 September (Old Style) · 17th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

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## Events of the day

- Great-martyr Eustathius Placidas; Martyrs Prince Michael of Chernigov and his boyar Theodore

  Polyeleos rank

- Afterfeast: Exaltation of the Precious and Life-giving Cross

## 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

  Ephesians 4:17–25

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  17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

  18 being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

  19 They, having become callous, gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

  20 But you didn’t learn Christ that way,

  21 if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:

  22 that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

  23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

  24 and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

  25 Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

- Gospel

  Luke 4:22–30

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  22 All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

  23 He said to them, “Doubtless you will tell me this parable, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’ ”

  24 He said, “Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.

  25 But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.

  26 Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

  27 There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.”

  28 They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things.

  29 They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.

  30 But he, passing through the middle of them, went his way.

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)