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title: "October 3, 2025 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Friday, October 3, 2025. 3 October (Revised Julian). Fast day. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on spas.life."
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Friday

# October 3, 2025

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

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

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## Events of the day

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## 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

  Ephesians 4:17–25

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  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.

  20 But you didn’t learn Christ that way,

  21 if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:

  22 that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

  23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

  24 and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

  25 Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

- Gospel

  Luke 6:17–23

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  17 He came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases;

  18 as well as those who were troubled by unclean spirits, and they were being healed.

  19 All the multitude sought to touch him, for power came out of him and healed them all.

  20 He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, God’s Kingdom is yours.

  21 Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

  22 Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

  23 Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Short penitential prayers](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/penitential-short)