---
title: "August 18, 2026 — Martyr Eusignius | Church calendar"
description: "Tuesday, August 18, 2026. 5 August (Old Style). Martyr Eusignius. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-08-18"
language: "en"
---

Tuesday

# August 18, 2026

5 August (Old Style) · 12th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-08-18) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2026-08-18)

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

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## Events of the day

- Martyr Eusignius

  Commemoration

- Forefeast: Transfiguration of the Lord

## Fasting

Fast day · Dormition Fast

Dormition Fast, Tuesday and Thursday: cooked food without oil.

- Meat: not allowed
- Dairy & eggs: not allowed
- Fish: not allowed
- Oil: not allowed
- Wine: not 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 5:15–21

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  15 He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

  16 Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

  17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

  18 But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;

  19 namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.

  20 We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

  21 For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

- Gospel

  Mark 1:16–22

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  16 Passing along by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, the brother of Simon, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.

  17 Jesus said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you into fishers for men.”

  18 Immediately they left their nets, and followed him.

  19 Going on a little further from there, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother, who were also in the boat mending the nets.

  20 Immediately he called them, and they left their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him.

  21 They went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath day he entered into the synagogue and taught.

  22 They were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes.

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)