October 28, 2026

Events of the day

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Fasting

Fast day · Wednesday / Friday

Wednesday and Friday: fast without meat, dairy or eggs. Whether fish is allowed depends on the day's feast — check the church calendar.

• Meat: not allowed
• Dairy & eggs: not allowed
• Fish: not specified
• Oil: allowed
• Wine: allowed

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

  Colossians 3:17–4:1

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  ¹⁷Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

  ¹⁸Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

  ¹⁹Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

  ²⁰Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

  ²¹Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

  ²²Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

  ²³And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

  ²⁴knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

  ²⁵But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.

  ¹Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

• Gospel

  Luke 11:9–13

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  ⁹“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

  ¹⁰For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

  ¹¹“Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?

  ¹²Or if he asks for an egg, he won’t give him a scorpion, will he?

  ¹³If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Trisagion