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title: "July 22, 2026 — Hieromartyr Pancratius, Bishop of Taormina"
description: "Wednesday, July 22, 2026. 9 July (Old Style). Hieromartyr Pancratius, Bishop of Taormina. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-07-22"
language: "en"
---

Wednesday

# July 22, 2026

9 July (Old Style) · 8th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-07-22) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2026-07-22)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-07)

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## Events of the day

- Hieromartyr Pancratius, Bishop of Taormina

  Commemoration

## Fasting

Fast day · Wednesday / Friday

Wednesday and Friday: fast without meat, dairy or eggs. Whether fish is allowed depends on the day's feast — check the church calendar.

- Meat: not allowed
- Dairy & eggs: not allowed
- Fish: not specified
- 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 Corinthians 10:12–22

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  12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.

  13 No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

  14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

  15 I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.

  16 The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ?

  17 Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.

  18 Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don’t those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?

  19 What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

  20 But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don’t desire that you would have fellowship with demons.

  21 You can’t both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.

  22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

- Gospel

  Matthew 16:20–24

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  20 Then he commanded the disciples that they should tell no one that he was Jesus the Christ.

  21 From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.

  22 Peter took him aside, and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This will never be done to you.”

  23 But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”

  24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [The Trisagion](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/trisagion)