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title: "October 30, 2020 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Friday, October 30, 2020. 30 October (Revised Julian). Fast day. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on spas.life."
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-10-30"
language: "en"
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Friday

# October 30, 2020

30 October (Revised Julian) · 21st week after Pentecost

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2020-10-30) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-10-30)

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

[← October 29](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-10-29) [October 31 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-10-31)

## Events of the day

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## 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

  Colossians 2:1–7

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  1 For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

  2 that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

  3 in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

  4 Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

  5 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

  6 As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

  7 rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

- 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, 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)