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Mount Athos Calendar

Time in Athos

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18th Week after Pentecost.

Old Style 17 Sep 2026 Julian Calendar

Wednesday

New Style 30 Sep 2026 Gregorian Calendar

Fasting Day.
Food with vegetable oil.

Eph..5:25-33 ✥ Matt..23:29-39

Feasts

Feast of the Saint

Feast Day of the Holy Martyrs Faith, Hope, Love and Their Mother Sophia

Feast of the Saint

Feast Day of St. Joachim I the Pany, Patriarch of Alexandria

Venerated Saints

Martyr Sophia and her three daughters at Rome

Martyr Agathocleia

Martyr Theodota at Nicea

156 Martyrs of Palestine, including Bishops Peleus and Nilus, the Presbyter Zeno, the Noblemen Patermuthius and Elias, and others

Patriarch Holy Hierarch

Joachim I (Pany) of Alexandria

Pavel (Moiseev), Theodosius (Sobolev), archimandrites, Nikodim (Shchapkov), Seraphim (Kulakov), hieromonks

Venerable Martyr

Irina Frolova, novice

Martyr John Korotkov

Venerable Martyr

Alexandra Khvorostyannikova, novice

Ephesians

5:25 Husbands,* love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word|,

5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

5:28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

5:29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

5:30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

5:31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

5:32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

5:33 Nevertheless* let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself|; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Gospel of Matthew

23:29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,

23:30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

23:31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.

23:32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

23:33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

23:34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:

23:35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

23:36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.

23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

23:38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

23:39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

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