--- title: "July 18, 2026 — St Athanasius of Athos | Church calendar" description: "Saturday, July 18, 2026. 5 July (Old Style). St Athanasius of Athos. No fast" url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-07-18" language: "en" --- Saturday # July 18, 2026 5 July (Old Style) · 7th week after Pentecost Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar) [Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-07-18) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2026-07-18) [Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-07) [← July 17](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-07-17) [July 19 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-07-19) ## Events of the day - St Athanasius of Athos Polyeleos rank - Finding of the relics of St Sergius of Radonezh 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 - Vespers · Athanasius Wisdom of Solomon 3:1–9 - Vespers · Athanasius Wisdom of Solomon 5:15–6:3 - Vespers · Athanasius Wisdom of Solomon 4:7–15 - Vespers · Sergius Composite reading — Proverbs 10, 3, 8 - Vespers · Sergius Proverbs 10:31–11:12 - Vespers · Sergius Wisdom of Solomon 3:1–9 - Matins Gospel · either Saint Matthew 11:27–30 **Show the text** 27 All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him. 28 “Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” - Epistle Romans 12:1–3 **Show the text** 1 Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. 2 Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God. 3 For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith. - Epistle · either Saint Galatians 5:22–6:2 **Show the text** 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts. 25 If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit. 26 Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another. 1 Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted. 2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. - Gospel Matthew 10:37–11:1 **Show the text** 37 He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me. 38 He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me. 39 He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it. 40 He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me. 41 He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward. 42 Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.” 1 When Jesus had finished directing his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities. - Gospel · either Saint Luke 6:17–23 **Show the text** 17 He came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; 18 as well as those who were troubled by unclean spirits, and they were being healed. 19 All the multitude sought to touch him, for power came out of him and healed them all. 20 He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, God’s Kingdom is yours. 21 Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. 22 Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake. 23 Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets. Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, Julian calendar. Text: World English Bible. ## Saints and icons - [St Sergius of Radonezh](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/history/saints/sergius)