---
title: "August 23, 2027 — Martyr Archdeacon Laurence"
description: "Monday, August 23, 2027. 10 August (Old Style). Martyr Archdeacon Laurence. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2027-08-23"
language: "en"
---

Monday

# August 23, 2027

10 August (Old Style) · 10th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2027-08-23) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2027-08-23)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2027-08)

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## Events of the day

- Martyr Archdeacon Laurence

  Commemoration

- Afterfeast: Transfiguration of the Lord

## Fasting

Fast day · Dormition Fast

Dormition Fast, Monday, Wednesday and Friday: xerophagy.

- Meat: not allowed
- Dairy & eggs: not allowed
- Fish: not allowed
- Oil: not allowed
- Wine: not allowed
- Xerophagy

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

  1 Corinthians 15:12–19

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  12 Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

  13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised.

  14 If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.

  15 Yes, we are also found false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that he raised up Christ, whom he didn’t raise up, if it is so that the dead are not raised.

  16 For if the dead aren’t raised, neither has Christ been raised.

  17 If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.

  18 Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

  19 If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.

- Gospel

  Matthew 21:18–22

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  18 Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.

  19 Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, “Let there be no fruit from you forever!” Immediately the fig tree withered away.

  20 When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree immediately wither away?”

  21 Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it would be done.

  22 All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Morning prayer of St Macarius the Great](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/morning-macarius)