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23rd Week after Pentecost.

Old Style 23 Oct 2026 Julian Calendar

Thursday

New Style 05 Nov 2026 Gregorian Calendar

There is no fasting.

1 Thess..2:9-14 ✥ Luke.9:49-56 ✥ Gal..1:11-19 ✥ Matt..13:54-58

Feasts

Feast of the Saint

Feast Day of the Holy Apostle James, the Brother of God (Adelphótheos)

Feast of the Saint

Translation of the Relics of Saint James of Borovichi, Wonderworker of Novgorod, in 1544

Venerated Saints

James, brother of the Lord, bishop

Translation of the relics of Blessed James of Borovichi, Wonderworker of Novgorod

Patriarch Holy Hierarch

Ignatios of Constantinople

Elysei Lavrishevsky

Presbyter Hieromartyr

Hieromartyr Nikolai Agafonikov, Presbyter

Presbyter Hieromartyr

Vladimir Ambartsumov, Moscow, Presbyter

Presbyter Hieromartyr

Alexander Solovyev, Presbyter

Presbyter Hieromartyr

Hieromartyr Nikolai Arkhangelsky, Presbyter

Presbyter Hieromartyr

Hieromartyr Emilian Goncharov, Presbyter

Presbyter Hieromartyr

Hieromartyr Sozont Reshetilov, Presbyter

Venerable Martyr

Euphrosinia Timofeyeva, novice

Jacob Borovichsky, Novgorod

1 Thessalonians

2:9 For ye remember, brethren,* our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

2:10 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

2:11 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,

2:12 That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.

2:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

2:14 For ye, brethren,* became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus.| For ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:

Gospel of Luke

9:49 And John answered and said,* Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we forbad him, because he followeth not with us.

9:50 And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us.

9:51 And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up,* he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem,

9:52 And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him.

9:53 And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.

9:54 And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?

9:55 But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.

9:56 For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.

Galatians

1:11 But I certify you, brethren,* that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.

1:12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

1:13 For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:

1:14 And profited in the Jews’ religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

1:15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,

1:16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:

1:17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.

1:18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.

1:19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord’s brother.

Gospel of Matthew

13:54 And when he was come into his own country, he taught them* in their synagogue|, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works?

13:55 Is not this the carpenter’s son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?

13:56 And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things?

13:57 And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.

13:58 And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

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