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title: "September 20, 2028 — Martyr Sozon | Church calendar"
description: "Wednesday, September 20, 2028. 7 September (Old Style). Martyr Sozon. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2028-09-20"
language: "en"
---

Wednesday

# September 20, 2028

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

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2028-09-20) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2028-09-20)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2028-09)

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## Events of the day

- Martyr Sozon

  Commemoration

- Forefeast: Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos

## 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

  Galatians 6:2–10

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  2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

  3 For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

  4 But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.

  5 For each man will bear his own burden.

  6 But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.

  7 Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

  8 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

  9 Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

  10 So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

- Gospel

  Mark 7:14–24

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  14 He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand.

  15 There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

  16 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!”

  17 When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable.

  18 He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him,

  19 because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, making all foods clean?”

  20 He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.

  21 For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

  22 covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

  23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.”

  24 From there he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. He entered into a house, and didn’t want anyone to know it, but he couldn’t escape notice.

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)