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title: "October 27, 2028 — Martyrs Nazarius, Gervasius, Protasius and…"
description: "Friday, October 27, 2028. 14 October (Old Style). Martyrs Nazarius, Gervasius, Protasius and Celsus; St Paraskeva of Serbia. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2028-10-27"
language: "en"
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Friday

# October 27, 2028

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

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

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## Events of the day

- Martyrs Nazarius, Gervasius, Protasius and Celsus; St Paraskeva of Serbia

  Commemoration

## 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

  Colossians 2:1–7

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  1 For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

  2 that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

  3 in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

  4 Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

  5 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

  6 As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

  7 rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

- Gospel

  Luke 9:12–18

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  12 The day began to wear away; and the twelve came and said to him, “Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding villages and farms, and lodge, and get food, for we are here in a deserted place.”

  13 But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.” They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people.”

  14 For they were about five thousand men. He said to his disciples, “Make them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”

  15 They did so, and made them all sit down.

  16 He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to the sky, he blessed them, broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude.

  17 They ate and were all filled. They gathered up twelve baskets of broken pieces that were left over.

  18 As he was praying alone, the disciples were with him, and he asked them, “Who do the multitudes say that I am?”

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)