November 26, 2026

Events of the day

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Fasting

Fast day · Nativity Fast

Nativity Fast, Tuesday and Thursday (Typikon ch. 33): wine and oil, no fish.

• Meat: not allowed
• Dairy & eggs: not allowed
• Fish: not allowed
• 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 Timothy 3:1–13

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  ¹This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.

  ²The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

  ³not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

  ⁴one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

  ⁵(but how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule one’s own house take care of God’s assembly?)

  ⁶not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

  ⁷Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

  ⁸Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,

  ⁹holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

  ¹⁰Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.

  ¹¹Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.

  ¹²Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

  ¹³For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

• Gospel

  Luke 18:31–34

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  ³¹He took the twelve aside, and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.

  ³²For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on.

  ³³They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise again.”

  ³⁴They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn’t understand the things that were said.

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Prayer to the Holy Spirit “O Heavenly King”