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title: "June 12, 2026 — St Isaac the Confessor, Abbot of the Dalmatian…"
description: "Friday, June 12, 2026. 30 May (Old Style). St Isaac the Confessor, Abbot of the Dalmatian Monastery. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-06-12"
language: "en"
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Friday

# June 12, 2026

30 May (Old Style) · 2nd week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-06-12) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2026-06-12)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-06)

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## Events of the day

- St Isaac the Confessor, Abbot of the Dalmatian Monastery

  Commemoration

## Fasting

Fast day · Apostles' Fast

Apostles' Fast, Wednesday and Friday: xerophagy.

- Meat: not allowed
- Dairy & eggs: not allowed
- Fish: not allowed
- Oil: not allowed
- Wine: not allowed
- Xerophagy

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

  Romans 5:17–6:2

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  17 For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

  18 So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.

  19 For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

  20 The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

  21 that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

  1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

  2 May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

- Gospel

  Matthew 9:14–17

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  14 Then John’s disciples came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”

  15 Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

  16 No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made.

  17 Neither do people put new wine into old wine skins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.”

Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, Julian calendar. Text: World English Bible.

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Short penitential prayers](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/penitential-short)