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Mount Athos Calendar

Time in Athos

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18th Week after Pentecost.

Old Style 15 Sep 2026 Julian Calendar

Monday

New Style 28 Sep 2026 Gregorian Calendar

There is no fasting.

Eph..4:25-32 ✥ Matt..23:13-22 ✥ 2 Tim..2:1-10 ✥ Matt..10:16-22

Feasts

Feast of the Saint

Feast Day of Saint Nikitas the Great Martyr

Feast of the Saint

Feast Day of the Holy Martyr Porphyrios of Ephesus

Feast of the Saint

Feast Day in memory of St. Simeon, Archbishop of Solunsk.

Feast of the Saint

Uncovering of the Relics of the Archdeacon Stephen the Protomartyr

Venerated Saints

Archdeacon Apostle

Stephen, Protomartyr and Archdeacon, Apostle of the Seventy

Nicetas the Goth

Saint Philotheus the Presbyter in Asia Minor

Martyrs Theodotus, Asclepiodotus, and Maximus, of Adrianopolis

Bishop Holy Hierarch

Saint Akakios, Bishop of Melitēnḗ

Porphyrius of Ephesus

Bishop Holy Hierarch

Saint Joseph, Bishop of Alaverdi ("Alaverdoba")

Archbishop Holy Hierarch

Symeon of Thessalonica

Presbyter Hieromartyr

John Ilyinsky, Presbyter

Nun Venerable Martyr

Venerable Martyr Evdokia (Tkachenko), Nun

Presbyter Hieromartyr

Andrey Kovalev, Presbyter

Presbyter Hieromartyr

Gregory Konokotin, Presbyter

Presbyter Hieromartyr

Gregory Troitsky, Presbyter

Presbyter Hieromartyr

John Yakovlev, Presbyter

Archimandrite Confessor

New Hiero-confessor Ignatius (Biryukov), archimandrite

Presbyter Hieromartyr

Dimitry Ignatenko, Presbyter

Presbyter Hieromartyr

John Borozdin, Presbyter

Presbyter Hieromartyr

Jacob Leonovich, Presbyter

Presbyter Hieromartyr

Peter Petrikov, Presbyter

Presbyter Hieromartyr

Nikolay Skvortsov, Presbyter

Protodeacon Hieromartyr

Nikolai Tsvetkov, Protodeacon

Nun Venerable Martyr

Nun Maria (Sergeyevna Rykova)

Martyr Ludmila Petrova

Ephesians

4:25 Wherefore* putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour|: for we are members one of another.

4:26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

4:27 Neither give place to the devil.

4:28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

4:32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

Gospel of Matthew

23:13 But* woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

23:14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

23:15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

23:16 Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!

23:17 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

23:18 And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.

23:19 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?

23:20 Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.

23:21 And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.

23:22 And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.

10:16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

10:17 But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;

10:18 And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.

10:19 But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.

10:20 For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.

10:21 And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.

10:22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

2 Timothy

2:1 Thou therefore, my son,* be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

2:2 And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

2:3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

2:4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

2:5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.

2:6 The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.

2:7 Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.

2:8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:

2:9 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.

2:10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

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