---
title: "October 20, 2026 — Martyrs Sergius and Bacchus"
description: "Tuesday, October 20, 2026. 7 October (Old Style). Martyrs Sergius and Bacchus. No fast"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-10-20"
language: "en"
---

Tuesday

# October 20, 2026

7 October (Old Style) · 21st week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-10-20) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2026-10-20)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-10)

[← October 19](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-10-19) [October 21 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-10-21)

## Events of the day

- Martyrs Sergius and Bacchus

  Commemoration

## 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

  Colossians 1:1–2, 7–11

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  1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

  2 to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

  7 even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on your behalf,

  8 who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.

  9 For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

  10 that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

  11 strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

- Gospel

  Luke 6:37–45

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  37 Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

  38 “Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

  39 He spoke a parable to them. “Can the blind guide the blind? Won’t they both fall into a pit?

  40 A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.

  41 Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye?

  42 Or how can you tell your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye.

  43 For there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that produces good fruit.

  44 For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don’t gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.

  45 The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

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)