November 15, 2026

Events of the day

• Martyrs Acindynus, Pegasius, Aphthonius, Elpidephorus and Anempodistus

  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

• Vespers · Unmercenaries

  Isaiah 43:9–14

• Vespers · Unmercenaries

  Wisdom of Solomon 3:1–9

• Vespers · Unmercenaries

  Wisdom of Solomon 5:15–6:3

• 2nd Matins Gospel

  Mark 16:1–8

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  ¹When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.

  ²Very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.

  ³They were saying among themselves, “Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?”

  ⁴for it was very big. Looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back.

  ⁵Entering into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were amazed.

  ⁶He said to them, “Don’t be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen. He is not here. Behold, the place where they laid him!

  ⁷But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he said to you.’ ”

  ⁸They went out, and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come on them. They said nothing to anyone; for they were afraid.

• Epistle

  Ephesians 2:14–22

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  ¹⁴For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of separation,

  ¹⁵having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace,

  ¹⁶and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility through it.

  ¹⁷He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.

  ¹⁸For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

  ¹⁹So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God,

  ²⁰being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

  ²¹in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;

  ²²in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

• Epistle · Unmercenaries

  1 Corinthians 12:27–13:8

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  ²⁷Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

  ²⁸God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.

  ²⁹Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all miracle workers?

  ³⁰Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with various languages? Do all interpret?

  ³¹But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.

  ¹If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

  ²If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

  ³If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

  ⁴Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

  ⁵doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

  ⁶doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

  ⁷bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

  ⁸Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

• Gospel

  Luke 8:26–39

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  ²⁶They arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee.

  ²⁷When Jesus stepped ashore, a certain man out of the city who had demons for a long time met him. He wore no clothes, and didn’t live in a house, but in the tombs.

  ²⁸When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, “What do I have to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don’t torment me!”

  ²⁹For Jesus was commanding the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For the unclean spirit had often seized the man. He was kept under guard, and bound with chains and fetters. Breaking the bonds apart, he was driven by the demon into the desert.

  ³⁰Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He said, “Legion,” for many demons had entered into him.

  ³¹They begged him that he would not command them to go into the abyss.

  ³²Now there was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain, and they begged him that he would allow them to enter into those. Then he allowed them.

  ³³The demons came out of the man, and entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned.

  ³⁴When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the city and in the country.

  ³⁵People went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.

  ³⁶Those who saw it told them how he who had been possessed by demons was healed.

  ³⁷All the people of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were very much afraid. Then he entered into the boat and returned.

  ³⁸But the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him that he might go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,

  ³⁹“Return to your house, and declare what great things God has done for you.” He went his way, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.

• Gospel · Unmercenaries

  Matthew 10:1, 5–8

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  ¹He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness.

  ⁵Jesus sent these twelve out, and commanded them, saying, “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans.

  ⁶Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

  ⁷As you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’

  ⁸Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Symbol of Faith (Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed)