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26th Week after Pentecost.

Old Style 20 Nov 2025 Julian Calendar

Wednesday

New Style 03 Dec 2025 Gregorian Calendar

Nativity Fast.
Monastic rule: hot food without oil.

1 Tim..1:18-20,2:8-15 ✥ Luke.18:15-17,26-30 ✥ 1 Tim..3:1-13 ✥ Luke.18:31-34 ✥ Heb..7:26-8:2 ✥ John.10:9-16

Feasts

Forefeast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Venerated Saints

Gregory of Dekapolis

Patriarch Holy Hierarch

Saint Proclus, Archbishop of Constantinople

Martyrs Eustace, Thespesius, and Anatolius of Nicea

Dasius of Durostorum

Hieromartyrs Nerses, Bishop of Shahrqart (Kirkuk) and his disciple Martyr Joseph

Hieromartyrs John, Savery, Isaac, Hypatius and others with them

Damian (in the schema Diodorus) of Yuryegorsk, of Kargopol

Presbyter Hieromartyr

Alexy Amanov, presbyter

Presbyter Hieromartyr

Alexander Sakharov, presbyter

Vladimir Medvedyuk, presbyter, and the holy martyr Tatiana (Fomicheva)

Presbyter Hieromartyr

John Zabolotny, presbyter

Presbyter Hieromartyr

Alexy Nikatov, presbyter

Presbyter Hieromartyr

Vasily Kandelyabrov, presbyter

Presbyter Hieromartyr

Nicholas Zelenov, presbyter

Presbyter Hieromartyr

John Sarva, Emilian Panasevich, Nicholas Pokrovsky, presbyters

Ηegumen / Abbot Venerable Martyr

Arsenius (Dmitriev), abbot

Ηegumen / Abbot Venerable Martyr

Euthychius (Kachur), abbot

Hieromonk Venerable Martyr

New Hieromartyr Hilarion (Pisarets), hieromonk of Glinsk Hermitage

Mother Superior Venerable Martyr

Ioannikiya (Kozhevnikova), abbess

1 Timothy

1:18 This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy,* according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;

1:19 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:

1:20 Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

2:8 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

2:9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;

2:10 But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.

2:11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

2:12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

2:13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

2:14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

2:15 Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

3:1 This* is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

3:3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

3:4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

3:5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

3:6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

3:7 Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

3:8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

3:9 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

3:10 And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.

3:11 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

3:12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

3:13 For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Gospel of Luke

18:15 And they brought unto him also infants,* that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.

18:16 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

18:17 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.

18:26 And they that heard it said, Who then can be saved?

18:27 And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.

18:28 Then Peter said, Lo, we have left all, and followed thee.

18:29 And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God’s sake,

18:30 Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.

18:31 Then he* took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished.

18:32 For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on:

18:33 And they shall scourge him, and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise again.

18:34 And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.

Hebrews

7:26 For* such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

7:27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

7:28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.

8:1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;

8:2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

Gospel of John

10:9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

10:11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

10:12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.

10:13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

10:14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.

10:15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

10:16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

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