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title: "October 8, 2025 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Wednesday, October 8, 2025. 8 October (Revised Julian). Fast day. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on spas.life."
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Wednesday

# October 8, 2025

8 October (Revised Julian) · 18th 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 5:25–33

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  25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

  26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

  27 that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

  28 Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

  29 For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

  30 because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

  31 “For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

  32 This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

  33 Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

- Gospel

  Luke 6:46–7:1

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  46 “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?

  47 Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.

  48 He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.

  49 But he who hears, and doesn’t do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”

  1 After he had finished speaking in the hearing of the people, he entered into Capernaum.

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)