---
title: "October 20, 2029 — Martyrs Sergius and Bacchus"
description: "Saturday, October 20, 2029. 7 October (Old Style). Martyrs Sergius and Bacchus. No fast"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2029-10-20"
language: "en"
---

Saturday

# October 20, 2029

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

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2029-10-20) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2029-10-20)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2029-10)

[← October 19](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2029-10-19) [October 21 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2029-10-21)

## Events of the day

- Martyrs Sergius and Bacchus

  Commemoration

## Fasting

No fast

No fast today.

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

  2 Corinthians 3:12–18

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  12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,

  13 and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face, that the children of Israel wouldn’t look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away.

  14 But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.

  15 But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.

  16 But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

  17 Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

  18 But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

- Gospel

  Luke 5:27–32

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  27 After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, “Follow me!”

  28 He left everything, and rose up and followed him.

  29 Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.

  30 Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”

  31 Jesus answered them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

  32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

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)