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title: "October 16, 2023 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Monday, October 16, 2023. 16 October (Revised Julian). No fast. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on spas.life."
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Monday

# October 16, 2023

16 October (Revised Julian) · 20th week after Pentecost

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2023-10-16) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2023-10-16)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2023-10)

[← October 15](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2023-10-15) [October 17 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2023-10-17)

## Events of the day

No commemorations in the content package for this day yet

## 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

  Philippians 2:12–16

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  12 So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

  13 For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

  14 Do all things without complaining and arguing,

  15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

  16 holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

- Gospel

  Luke 9:18–22

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  18 As he was praying alone, the disciples were with him, and he asked them, “Who do the multitudes say that I am?”

  19 They answered, “ ‘John the Baptizer,’ but others say, ‘Elijah,’ and others, that one of the old prophets has risen again.”

  20 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered, “The Christ of God.”

  21 But he warned them, and commanded them to tell this to no one,

  22 saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.”

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Morning prayer of St Macarius the Great](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/morning-macarius)