April 20, 2026

Events of the day

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• Afterfeast: Pascha. The Bright Resurrection of Christ

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

  Acts 3:19–26

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  ¹⁹“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

  ²⁰and that he may send Christ Jesus, who was ordained for you before,

  ²¹whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.

  ²²For Moses indeed said to the fathers, ‘The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you.

  ²³It will be that every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.’

  ²⁴Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.

  ²⁵You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’

  ²⁶God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”

• Gospel

  John 2:1–11

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  ¹The third day, there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there.

  ²Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the wedding.

  ³When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no wine.”

  ⁴Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come.”

  ⁵His mother said to the servants, “Whatever he says to you, do it.”

  ⁶Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews’ way of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.

  ⁷Jesus said to them, “Fill the water pots with water.” So they filled them up to the brim.

  ⁸He said to them, “Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast.” So they took it.

  ⁹When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn’t know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom

  ¹⁰and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!”

  ¹¹This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Morning prayer of St Macarius the Great