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title: "August 12, 2026 — Apostles of the Seventy Silas, Silvanus…"
description: "Wednesday, August 12, 2026. 30 July (Old Style). Apostles of the Seventy Silas, Silvanus, Crescens, Epenetus and Andronicus. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-08-12"
language: "en"
---

Wednesday

# August 12, 2026

30 July (Old Style) · 11th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-08-12) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2026-08-12)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-08)

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## Events of the day

- Apostles of the Seventy Silas, Silvanus, Crescens, Epenetus and Andronicus

  Commemoration

## 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 3:4–11

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  4 Such confidence we have through Christ toward God,

  5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

  6 who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

  7 But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face, which was passing away,

  8 won’t service of the Spirit be with much more glory?

  9 For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.

  10 For most certainly that which has been made glorious has not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasses.

  11 For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.

- Gospel

  Matthew 23:29–39

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  29 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,

  30 and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn’t have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’

  31 Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.

  32 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

  33 You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

  34 Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

  35 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.

  36 Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.

  37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

  38 Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

  39 For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ”

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [The Trisagion](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/trisagion)