September 23, 2026

Events of the day

• Martyrs Menodora, Metrodora and Nymphodora

  Commemoration

• Afterfeast: Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos

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

  Ephesians 3:8–21

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  ⁸To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

  ⁹and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ,

  ¹⁰to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

  ¹¹according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  ¹²In him we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.

  ¹³Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.

  ¹⁴For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

  ¹⁵from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

  ¹⁶that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

  ¹⁷that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

  ¹⁸may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth,

  ¹⁹and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

  ²⁰Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

  ²¹to him be the glory in the assembly and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.

• Gospel

  Mark 11:22–26

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  ²²Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God.

  ²³For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says.

  ²⁴Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.

  ²⁵Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.

  ²⁶But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your transgressions.”

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Trisagion