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Mount Athos Calendar

Time in Athos

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19th Week after Pentecost.

Old Style 22 Sep 2026 Julian Calendar

Monday

New Style 05 Oct 2026 Gregorian Calendar

There is no fasting.

Phil..1:1-7 ✥ Luke.3:19-22 ✥ Heb..4:14-5:6 ✥ John.10:9-16

Feasts

Feast of the Icon Zograf Monastery

Feast of the Miraculous Icon of the Mother of God "Epakousa" (The Hearer)

Synaxes of Saints

Synaxis of the Saints of Tula

Venerated Saints

Saint Phocas the Gardener

Prophet Jonah (8th century B.C.)

Presbyter Venerable

Saint Jonah the Presbyter

Saint Peter of Africa

Kosmas the Zographite

Paraskeva Diveevskaya

Iona Yashezersky

Great Schema Hieromonk Venerable

Makarii Zhabinsky, Belevsky, hieroschemamonk

Bishop Hieromartyr

Phocas of Sinope, Bishop

Metropolitan Bishop Hieromartyr

Theodosius of Braz, Metropolitan

Bishop Hieromartyr

Veniamin, Bishop of Romanov's Church

Venerated Icons of the Mother of God

Theotokos "One Who Listens to Our Prayers"

Zograf Monastery

Philippians

1:1 Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

1:2 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

1:3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,

1:4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,

1:5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;

1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

1:7 Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.

Gospel of Luke

3:19 But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him* for Herodias his brother Philip’s wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,

3:20 Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.

3:21 Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,

3:22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.

Hebrews

4:14 Seeing then* that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

4:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

4:16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

5:1 For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:

5:2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.

5:3 And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

5:4 And* no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.

5:5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.

5:6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec|.

Gospel of John

10:9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

10:11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

10:12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.

10:13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

10:14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.

10:15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

10:16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

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