October 26, 2027

Events of the day

• Iveron Icon of the Theotokos (arrival in Moscow, 1648)

  Polyeleos rank

• Martyrs Carpus, Papylus, Agathodorus and Agathonica

  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

  Philippians 1:8–14

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  ⁸For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

  ⁹This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

  ¹⁰so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

  ¹¹being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

  ¹²Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News,

  ¹³so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ,

  ¹⁴and that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.

• Gospel

  Luke 8:1–3

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  ¹Soon afterwards, he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of God’s Kingdom. With him were the twelve,

  ²and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out;

  ³and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod’s steward; Susanna; and many others; who served them from their possessions.

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

Saints and icons

• Iveron Icon of the Theotokos (Portaitissa)
• Prayer of the day: Hymn to the Theotokos “Rejoice, O Virgin Theotokos”