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title: "August 23, 2031 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Saturday, August 23, 2031. 23 August (Revised Julian). No fast. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on spas.life."
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Saturday

# August 23, 2031

23 August (Revised Julian) · 12th week after Pentecost

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2031-08-23) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2031-08-23)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2031-08)

[← August 22](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2031-08-22) [August 24 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2031-08-24)

## Events of the day

No commemorations in the content package for this day yet

- Leave-taking of the feast: Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos

## 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

  1 Corinthians 1:26–29

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  26 For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;

  27 but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.

  28 God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist,

  29 that no flesh should boast before God.

- Epistle · Theotokos

  Philippians 2:5–11

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  5 Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

  6 who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

  7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

  8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

  9 Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name,

  10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,

  11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

- Gospel

  Matthew 20:29–34

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  29 As they went out from Jericho, a great multitude followed him.

  30 Behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, “Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!”

  31 The multitude rebuked them, telling them that they should be quiet, but they cried out even more, “Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!”

  32 Jesus stood still, and called them, and asked, “What do you want me to do for you?”

  33 They told him, “Lord, that our eyes may be opened.”

  34 Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him.

- Gospel · Theotokos

  Luke 10:38–42, 11:27–28

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Prayer for the departed](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/departed)