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title: "August 21, 2021 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Saturday, August 21, 2021. 21 August (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/2021-08-21"
language: "en"
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Saturday

# August 21, 2021

21 August (Revised Julian) · 9th week after Pentecost

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2021-08-21) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2021-08-21)

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

[← August 20](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2021-08-20) [August 22 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2021-08-22)

## Events of the day

No commemorations in the content package for this day yet

- Afterfeast: Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos

## 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

  Romans 14:6–9

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  6 He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t eat, and gives God thanks.

  7 For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.

  8 For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

  9 For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

- Gospel

  Matthew 15:32–39

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  32 Jesus summoned his disciples and said, “I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way.”

  33 The disciples said to him, “Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?”

  34 Jesus said to them, “How many loaves do you have?” They said, “Seven, and a few small fish.”

  35 He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground;

  36 and he took the seven loaves and the fish. He gave thanks and broke them, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.

  37 They all ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were left over.

  38 Those who ate were four thousand men, in addition to women and children.

  39 Then he sent away the multitudes, got into the boat, and came into the borders of Magdala.

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)