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title: "September 4, 2020 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Friday, September 4, 2020. 4 September (Revised Julian). Fast day. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on…"
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Friday

# September 4, 2020

4 September (Revised Julian) · 13th week after Pentecost

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2020-09-04) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-09-04)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-09)

[← September 3](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-09-03) [September 5 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-09-05)

## Events of the day

No commemorations in the content package for this day yet

## 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

  2 Corinthians 11:5–21

- Gospel

  Mark 4:1–9

  **Show the text**

  1 Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea.

  2 He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,

  3 “Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,

  4 and as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.

  5 Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.

  6 When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

  7 Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

  8 Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.”

  9 He said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, New Calendar (OCA practice). Text: World English Bible.

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Short penitential prayers](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/penitential-short)