February 1, 2026

Events of the day

• Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee. The Lenten Triodion begins

  Commemoration

  First Sunday of preparation for Great Lent; the following week is fast-free.

• Forefeast: Meeting of the Lord in the Temple

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

• 1st Matins Gospel

  Matthew 28:16–20

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  ¹⁶But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had sent them.

  ¹⁷When they saw him, they bowed down to him, but some doubted.

  ¹⁸Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

  ¹⁹Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

  ²⁰teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

• Epistle

  2 Timothy 3:10–15

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  ¹⁰But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

  ¹¹persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

  ¹²Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

  ¹³But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

  ¹⁴But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

  ¹⁵From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

• Gospel

  Luke 18:10–14

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  ¹⁰“Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.

  ¹¹The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

  ¹²I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’

  ¹³But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

  ¹⁴I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, New Calendar (OCA practice). Text: World English Bible.

Saints and icons

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