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August 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Aug. 4 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 6-2005:*Fasting day*7th Friday after Pentecost*1st Corinthians 7:35-8:7*Matthew 15:29-31-Fixed commemorations:All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 18 by Old Calendarists-Saints:...

 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 7
August 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Aug. 6 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 8-2005:*New calendarists only: Fasting day *7th Sunday after Pentecost*Romans 15:1-7*Matthew 9:27-35-Fixed commemorations:...


2005

  • New Calendarists only: Fasting
    Fasting
    Fasting is primarily the act of willingly abstaining from some or all food, drink, or both, for a period of time. An absolute fast is normally defined as abstinence from all food and liquid for a defined period, usually a single day , or several days. Other fasts may be only partially restrictive,...

     day (Dormition Fast), although fish allowed for the feast
  • 7th Saturday after Pentecost
    Pentecost
    Pentecost is a prominent feast in the calendar of Ancient Israel celebrating the giving of the Law on Sinai, and also later in the Christian liturgical year commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples of Christ after the Resurrection of Jesus...

  • Romans
    Epistle to the Romans
    The Epistle of Paul to the Romans, often shortened to Romans, is the sixth book in the New Testament. Biblical scholars agree that it was composed by the Apostle Paul to explain that Salvation is offered through the Gospel of Jesus Christ...

     12:1-3
  • Matthew
    Gospel of Matthew
    The Gospel According to Matthew is one of the four canonical gospels, one of the three synoptic gospels, and the first book of the New Testament. It tells of the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth...

     10:37-11:1

Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 19 by Old Calendarists
Old Style and New Style dates
Old Style and New Style are used in English language historical studies either to indicate that the start of the Julian year has been adjusted to start on 1 January even though documents written at the time use a different start of year ; or to indicate that a date conforms to the Julian...


Saints

  • Saint
    Saint
    A saint is a holy person. In various religions, saints are people who are believed to have exceptional holiness.In Christian usage, "saint" refers to any believer who is "in Christ", and in whom Christ dwells, whether in heaven or in earth...

     Theoctistus of Chernigov, bishop
    Bishop
    A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...

     (12th century)
  • Saint Job the gorge-dweller on the Mezen River
    Mezen River
    The Mezen is a river in Udorsky District of the Komi Republic and in Leshukonsky and Mezensky Districts of Arkhangelsk Oblast in Russia. Its mouth is located in the Mezen Bay of the White Sea. Mezen is one of the biggest rivers of European Russia. It is long, and the area of its basin...

     in Solovki
    Solovki
    The Solovki prison camp was located on the Solovetsky Islands, in the White Sea). It was the "mother of the GULAG" according to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn...

  • Russian New martyr Nicholas Prozorov, priest
    Priest
    A priest is a person authorized to perform the sacred rites of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities...

     (1930)
  • Repose of Hieroschemamonk
    Monk
    A monk is a person who practices religious asceticism, living either alone or with any number of monks, while always maintaining some degree of physical separation from those not sharing the same purpose...

     Nikon of Valaam, the cave-dweller (1822)
  • Righteous Basil Shoustin of Optina (1968)
  • Martyr Priest Maxim Sandovich
    Maxim Sandovich
    Maxim Sandovich is a New Martyr and Orthodox saint. He is the protomartyr of the Lemko people.He was trained as an Orthodox priest, and was executed by the Austro-Hungarian Empire as a russophile. After his execution, his wife was imprisoned in Talerhof, where his son, also named Maxim Sandovich,...

     of Carpatho-Russia (1914)
  • New Hieromartyr Dimitry (Lyubimov), Archbishop of Gdov
    Gdov
    Gdov is a town and the administrative center of Gdovsky District of Pskov Oblast, Russia, situated on the Gdovka River, just from its outflow into Lake Peipus. Population:...

     (1938)

Other commemorations

  • The Transfiguration
    Transfiguration of Jesus
    The Transfiguration of Jesus is an event reported in the New Testament in which Jesus is transfigured and becomes radiant upon a mountain. The Synoptic Gospels describe it, and 2 Peter 1:16-18 refers to it....

     of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ

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