February 5, 2026

Events of the day

• Hieromartyr Clement of Ancyra; Martyr Agathangelus

  Commemoration

Fasting

No fast

The week after the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee is fast-free, including Wednesday and Friday.

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 John 1:8–2:6

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  ⁸If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

  ⁹If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

  ¹⁰If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

  ¹My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

  ²And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

  ³This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

  ⁴One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

  ⁵But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him:

  ⁶he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

• Gospel

  Mark 13:31–14:2

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  ³¹Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

  ³²But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

  ³³Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is.

  ³⁴“It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.

  ³⁵Watch therefore, for you don’t know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning;

  ³⁶lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.

  ³⁷What I tell you, I tell all: Watch.”

  ¹It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.

  ²For they said, “Not during the feast, because there might be a riot among the people.”

Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, Julian calendar. Text: World English Bible.

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Prayer to the Holy Spirit “O Heavenly King”