November 4, 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

  1 Thessalonians 2:1–8

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  ¹For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,

  ²but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.

  ³For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.

  ⁴But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak: not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

  ⁵For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

  ⁶nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

  ⁷But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

  ⁸Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

• Gospel

  Luke 11:42–46

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  ⁴²But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

  ⁴³Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces.

  ⁴⁴Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don’t know it.”

  ⁴⁵One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you insult us also.”

  ⁴⁶He said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens.

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Trisagion