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title: "September 29, 2031 — Great-martyr Euphemia the All-praised"
description: "Monday, September 29, 2031. 16 September (Old Style). Great-martyr Euphemia the All-praised. No fast"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2031-09-29"
language: "en"
---

Monday

# September 29, 2031

16 September (Old Style) · 18th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2031-09-29) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2031-09-29)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2031-09)

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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

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

  Ephesians 4:25–32

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

  26 “Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

  27 and don’t give place to the devil.

  28 Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

  29 Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

  30 Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

  31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

  32 And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

- Gospel

  Luke 3:19–22

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  19 but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias, his brother’s wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done,

  20 added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison.

  21 Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened,

  22 and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.”

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Morning prayer of St Macarius the Great](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/morning-macarius)