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title: "August 14, 2025 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Thursday, August 14, 2025. 14 August (Revised Julian). Fast day. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on spas.life."
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Thursday

# August 14, 2025

14 August (Revised Julian) · 10th week after Pentecost

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

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## Events of the day

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- Forefeast: Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos

## Fasting

Fast day · Dormition Fast

Dormition Fast, Tuesday and Thursday: cooked food without oil.

- Meat: not allowed
- Dairy & eggs: not allowed
- Fish: not allowed
- Oil: not allowed
- Wine: not 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 1:1–7

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  1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:

  2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

  3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;

  4 who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

  5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

  6 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

  7 Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort.

- Gospel

  Matthew 21:43–46

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  43 “Therefore I tell you, God’s Kingdom will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing its fruit.

  44 He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust.”

  45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them.

  46 When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.

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)