---
title: "November 7, 2031 — Martyrs Marcian and Martyrius"
description: "Friday, November 7, 2031. 25 October (Old Style). Martyrs Marcian and Martyrius. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2031-11-07"
language: "en"
---

Friday

# November 7, 2031

25 October (Old Style) · 23rd week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2031-11-07) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2031-11-07)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2031-11)

[← November 6](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2031-11-06) [November 8 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2031-11-08)

## Events of the day

- Martyrs Marcian and Martyrius

  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

  1 Thessalonians 2:14–19

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  14 For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews

  15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,

  16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

  17 But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,

  18 because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.

  19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

- Gospel

  Luke 11:23–26

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  23 “He that is not with me is against me. He who doesn’t gather with me scatters.

  24 The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, passes through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none, he says, ‘I will turn back to my house from which I came out.’

  25 When he returns, he finds it swept and put in order.

  26 Then he goes, and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”

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)