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title: "August 23, 2023 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Wednesday, August 23, 2023. 23 August (Revised Julian). Fast day. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on spas.life."
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Wednesday

# August 23, 2023

23 August (Revised Julian) · 12th week after Pentecost

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2023-08-23) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2023-08-23)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2023-08)

[← August 22](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2023-08-22) [August 24 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2023-08-24)

## Events of the day

No commemorations in the content package for this day yet

- Leave-taking of the feast: Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos

## 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

  2 Corinthians 6:11–16

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  11 Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.

  12 You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.

  13 Now in return, I speak as to my children: you also open your hearts.

  14 Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

  15 What agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what portion does a believer have with an unbeliever?

  16 What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

- Epistle · Theotokos

  Philippians 2:5–11

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  5 Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

  6 who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

  7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

  8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

  9 Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name,

  10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,

  11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

- Gospel

  Mark 1:23–28

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  23 Immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, and he cried out,

  24 saying, “Ha! What do we have to do with you, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!”

  25 Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be quiet, and come out of him!”

  26 The unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying with a loud voice, came out of him.

  27 They were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching? For with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him!”

  28 The report of him went out immediately everywhere into all the region of Galilee and its surrounding area.

- Gospel · Theotokos

  Luke 10:38–42, 11:27–28

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)