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title: "October 20, 2020 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Tuesday, October 20, 2020. 20 October (Revised Julian). No fast. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on spas.life."
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-10-20"
language: "en"
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Tuesday

# October 20, 2020

20 October (Revised Julian) · 20th week after Pentecost

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2020-10-20) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-10-20)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-10)

[← October 19](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-10-19) [October 21 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-10-21)

## Events of the day

No commemorations in the content package for this day yet

## 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

  Philippians 2:16–23

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  16 holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

  17 Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

  18 In the same way, you also rejoice, and rejoice with me.

  19 But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing.

  20 For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you.

  21 For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

  22 But you know the proof of him, that as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.

  23 Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how it will go with me.

- Gospel

  Luke 9:23–27

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  23 He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

  24 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, will save it.

  25 For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?

  26 For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

  27 But I tell you the truth: There are some of those who stand here who will in no way taste of death until they see God’s Kingdom.”

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [The Jesus Prayer](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/jesus-prayer)