--- title: "February 21, 2021 (New Style) — Sunday of the Publican and the…" description: "Sunday, February 21, 2021. 21 February (Revised Julian). Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee. The Lenten Triodion begins. No fast" url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2021-02-21" language: "en" --- Sunday # February 21, 2021 21 February (Revised Julian) · Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee New Calendar (Revised Julian) [Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2021-02-21) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2021-02-21) [Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2021-02) [← February 20](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2021-02-20) [February 22 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2021-02-22) ## Events of the day - Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee. The Lenten Triodion begins Commemoration First Sunday of preparation for Great Lent; the following week is fast-free. ## 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 - 4th Matins Gospel Luke 24:1–12 **Show the text** 1 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb. 3 They entered in, and didn’t find the Lord Jesus’ body. 4 While they were greatly perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing. 5 Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. They said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? 6 He isn’t here, but is risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee, 7 saying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and the third day rise again?” 8 They remembered his words, 9 returned from the tomb, and told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. 10 Now they were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James. The other women with them told these things to the apostles. 11 These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn’t believe them. 12 But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping and looking in, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he departed to his home, wondering what had happened. - Epistle 2 Timothy 3:10–15 **Show the text** 10 But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness, 11 persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all. 12 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. 13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14 But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them. 15 From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus. - Gospel Luke 18:10–14 **Show the text** 10 “Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’ 13 But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.” Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, New Calendar (OCA practice). Text: World English Bible. ## Saints and icons - Prayer of the day: [The Symbol of Faith (Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed)](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/creed)