---
title: "September 29, 2026 — Great-martyr Euphemia the All-praised"
description: "Tuesday, September 29, 2026. 16 September (Old Style). Great-martyr Euphemia the All-praised. No fast"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-09-29"
language: "en"
---

Tuesday

# September 29, 2026

16 September (Old Style) · 18th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-09-29) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2026-09-29)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-09)

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## Events of the day

- Great-martyr Euphemia the All-praised

  Polyeleos rank

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

## 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

- Epistle

  Ephesians 5:20–26

  **Show the text**

  20 giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

  21 subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

  22 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

  23 For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

  24 But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

  25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

  26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

- Gospel

   The ordinary Gospel of this day is to be confirmed: the September 'otstupka' repeats earlier readings as chosen by the printed calendar. Check a printed calendar.

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)