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title: "August 7, 2021 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Saturday, August 7, 2021. 7 August (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/2021-08-07"
language: "en"
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Saturday

# August 7, 2021

7 August (Revised Julian) · 7th week after Pentecost

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2021-08-07) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2021-08-07)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2021-08)

[← August 6](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2021-08-06) [August 8 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2021-08-08)

## Events of the day

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- Afterfeast: Transfiguration of the Lord

## Fasting

Fast day · Dormition Fast

Dormition Fast, Saturday and Sunday: food with oil and wine.

- Meat: not allowed
- Dairy & eggs: not allowed
- Fish: not allowed
- 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

  Romans 12:1–3

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  1 Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

  2 Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

  3 For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

- Gospel

  Matthew 10:37–11:1

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  37 He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

  38 He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me.

  39 He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

  40 He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.

  41 He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward.

  42 Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”

  1 When Jesus had finished directing his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Prayer for the departed](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/departed)