--- title: "November 22, 2025 — Martyrs Onesiphorus and Porphyrius" description: "Saturday, November 22, 2025. 9 November (Old Style). Martyrs Onesiphorus and Porphyrius; St Matrona; St Nectarius of Aegina. No fast" url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2025-11-22" language: "en" --- Saturday # November 22, 2025 9 November (Old Style) · 24th week after Pentecost Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar) [Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2025-11-22) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2025-11-22) [Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2025-11) [← November 21](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2025-11-21) [November 23 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2025-11-23) ## Events of the day - Martyrs Onesiphorus and Porphyrius; St Matrona; St Nectarius of Aegina Commemoration ## Fasting No fast No fast today. 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 2 Corinthians 11:1–6 - Gospel Luke 9:37–43 **Show the text** 37 On the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a great multitude met him. 38 Behold, a man from the crowd called out, saying, “Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child. 39 Behold, a spirit takes him, he suddenly cries out, and it convulses him so that he foams, and it hardly departs from him, bruising him severely. 40 I begged your disciples to cast it out, and they couldn’t.” 41 Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.” 42 While he was still coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him violently. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father. 43 They were all astonished at the majesty of God. But while all were marveling at all the things which Jesus did, he said to his disciples, Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, Julian calendar. Text: World English Bible. ## Saints and icons - Prayer of the day: [Prayer for the departed](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/departed)