August 5, 2026

Events of the day

• Martyrs Trophimus, Theophilus and the 13 with them; Pochaev Icon of the Theotokos

  Polyeleos rank

Fasting

Fast day · Wednesday / Friday

Wednesday and Friday: fast without meat, dairy or eggs. Whether fish is allowed depends on the day's feast — check the church calendar.

• Meat: not allowed
• Dairy & eggs: not allowed
• Fish: not specified
• Oil: allowed
• Wine: allowed

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 Corinthians 16:4–12

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  ⁴If it is appropriate for me to go also, they will go with me.

  ⁵But I will come to you when I have passed through Macedonia, for I am passing through Macedonia.

  ⁶But with you it may be that I will stay, or even winter, that you may send me on my journey wherever I go.

  ⁷For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.

  ⁸But I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost,

  ⁹for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

  ¹⁰Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.

  ¹¹Therefore let no one despise him. But set him forward on his journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brothers.

  ¹²Now concerning Apollos, the brother, I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers; and it was not at all his desire to come now; but he will come when he has an opportunity.

• Gospel

  Matthew 21:28–32

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  ²⁸But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’

  ²⁹He answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he changed his mind, and went.

  ³⁰He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I’m going, sir,’ but he didn’t go.

  ³¹Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.

  ³²For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn’t even repent afterward, that you might believe him.

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Trisagion