---
title: "August 25, 2029 — Martyrs Photius and Anicetas"
description: "Saturday, August 25, 2029. 12 August (Old Style). Martyrs Photius and Anicetas. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2029-08-25"
language: "en"
---

Saturday

# August 25, 2029

12 August (Old Style) · 13th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2029-08-25) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2029-08-25)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2029-08)

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## Events of the day

- Martyrs Photius and Anicetas

  Commemoration

- Afterfeast: Transfiguration of the Lord

## Fasting

Fast day · Dormition Fast

Dormition Fast, Saturday and Sunday: food with oil and wine.

- Meat: not allowed
- Dairy & eggs: not allowed
- Fish: not allowed
- 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

  1 Corinthians 2:6–9

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  6 We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.

  7 But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

  8 which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.

  9 But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

- Gospel

  Matthew 22:15–22

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  15 Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.

  16 They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you aren’t partial to anyone.

  17 Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”

  18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test me, you hypocrites?

  19 Show me the tax money.” They brought to him a denarius.

  20 He asked them, “Whose is this image and inscription?”

  21 They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

  22 When they heard it, they marveled, and left him, and went away.

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Prayer for the departed](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/departed)