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title: "September 29, 2028 — Great-martyr Euphemia the All-praised"
description: "Friday, September 29, 2028. 16 September (Old Style). Great-martyr Euphemia the All-praised. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2028-09-29"
language: "en"
---

Friday

# September 29, 2028

16 September (Old Style) · 17th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

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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

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

  Ephesians 4:17–25

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  17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

  18 being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

  19 They, having become callous, gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

  20 But you didn’t learn Christ that way,

  21 if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:

  22 that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

  23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

  24 and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

  25 Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

- Gospel

  Mark 12:1–12

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  1 He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.

  2 When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard.

  3 They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty.

  4 Again, he sent another servant to them; and they threw stones at him, wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated.

  5 Again he sent another; and they killed him; and many others, beating some, and killing some.

  6 Therefore still having one, his beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

  7 But those farmers said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’

  8 They took him, killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.

  9 What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.

  10 Haven’t you even read this Scripture: ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the head of the corner.

  11 This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes’?”

  12 They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away.

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Short penitential prayers](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/penitential-short)