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title: "October 21, 2020 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Wednesday, October 21, 2020. 21 October (Revised Julian). Fast day. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on…"
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Wednesday

# October 21, 2020

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

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2020-10-21) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-10-21)

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

[← October 20](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-10-20) [October 22 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-10-22)

## 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

  Philippians 2:24–30

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  24 But I trust in the Lord that I myself also will come shortly.

  25 But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need,

  26 since he longed for you all, and was very troubled because you had heard that he was sick.

  27 For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.

  28 I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

  29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such people in honor,

  30 because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.

- Gospel

  Luke 9:44–50

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  44 “Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will be delivered up into the hands of men.”

  45 But they didn’t understand this saying. It was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

  46 An argument arose among them about which of them was the greatest.

  47 Jesus, perceiving the reasoning of their hearts, took a little child, and set him by his side,

  48 and said to them, “Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me. Whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For whoever is least among you all, this one will be great.”

  49 John answered, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him, because he doesn’t follow with us.”

  50 Jesus said to him, “Don’t forbid him, for he who is not against us is for us.”

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [The Trisagion](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/trisagion)