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title: "October 17, 2024 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Thursday, October 17, 2024. 17 October (Revised Julian). No fast. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on spas.life."
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Thursday

# October 17, 2024

17 October (Revised Julian) · 17th week after Pentecost

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

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## 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

  Ephesians 4:14–19

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  14 that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

  15 but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,

  16 from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

  17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

  18 being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

  19 They, having become callous, gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

- Gospel

  Luke 9:49–56

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  49 John answered, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him, because he doesn’t follow with us.”

  50 Jesus said to him, “Don’t forbid him, for he who is not against us is for us.”

  51 It came to pass, when the days were near that he should be taken up, he intently set his face to go to Jerusalem

  52 and sent messengers before his face. They went and entered into a village of the Samaritans, so as to prepare for him.

  53 They didn’t receive him, because he was traveling with his face set toward Jerusalem.

  54 When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them, just as Elijah did?”

  55 But he turned and rebuked them, “You don’t know of what kind of spirit you are.

  56 For the Son of Man didn’t come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.” They went to another village.

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Prayer to the Holy Spirit “O Heavenly King”](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/heavenly-king)