November 12, 2026

Events of the day

• Hieromartyr Zenobius and Martyr Zenobia

  Commemoration

Fasting

No fast

No fast today.

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 Thessalonians 5:1–8

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  ¹But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.

  ²For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

  ³For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.

  ⁴But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.

  ⁵You are all children of light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness,

  ⁶so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

  ⁷For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

  ⁸But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

• Gospel

  Luke 11:14–23

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  ¹⁴He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. When the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke; and the multitudes marveled.

  ¹⁵But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”

  ¹⁶Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven.

  ¹⁷But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. A house divided against itself falls.

  ¹⁸If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.

  ¹⁹But if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.

  ²⁰But if I by God’s finger cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come to you.

  ²¹“When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe.

  ²²But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him, he takes from him his whole armor in which he trusted, and divides his plunder.

  ²³“He that is not with me is against me. He who doesn’t gather with me scatters.

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”