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title: "November 22, 2026 — Martyrs Onesiphorus and Porphyrius"
description: "Sunday, November 22, 2026. 9 November (Old Style). Martyrs Onesiphorus and Porphyrius; St Matrona; St Nectarius of Aegina. No fast"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-11-22"
language: "en"
---

Sunday

# November 22, 2026

9 November (Old Style) · 25th Sunday after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-11-22) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2026-11-22)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-11)

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## 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

- 3rd Matins Gospel

  Mark 16:9–20

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  9 Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.

  10 She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept.

  11 When they heard that he was alive, and had been seen by her, they disbelieved.

  12 After these things he was revealed in another form to two of them, as they walked, on their way into the country.

  13 They went away and told it to the rest. They didn’t believe them, either.

  14 Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn’t believe those who had seen him after he had risen.

  15 He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

  16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

  17 These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages;

  18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

  19 So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

  20 They went out, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.

- Epistle

  Ephesians 4:1–6

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  1 I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

  2 with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

  3 being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

  4 There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling,

  5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

  6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all, and in us all.

- Gospel

  Luke 8:41–56

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  41 Behold, a man named Jairus came. He was a ruler of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus’ feet, and begged him to come into his house,

  42 for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as he went, the multitudes pressed against him.

  43 A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians and could not be healed by any

  44 came behind him, and touched the fringe of his cloak. Immediately the flow of her blood stopped.

  45 Jesus said, “Who touched me?” When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, “Master, the multitudes press and jostle you, and you say, ‘Who touched me?’”

  46 But Jesus said, “Someone did touch me, for I perceived that power has gone out of me.”

  47 When the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared to him in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.

  48 He said to her, “Daughter, cheer up. Your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”

  49 While he still spoke, one from the ruler of the synagogue’s house came, saying to him, “Your daughter is dead. Don’t trouble the Teacher.”

  50 But Jesus hearing it, answered him, “Don’t be afraid. Only believe, and she will be healed.”

  51 When he came to the house, he didn’t allow anyone to enter in, except Peter, John, James, the father of the child, and her mother.

  52 All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, “Don’t weep. She isn’t dead, but sleeping.”

  53 They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was dead.

  54 But he put them all outside, and taking her by the hand, he called, saying, “Child, arise!”

  55 Her spirit returned, and she rose up immediately. He commanded that something be given to her to eat.

  56 Her parents were amazed, but he commanded them to tell no one what had been done.

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [The Symbol of Faith (Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed)](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/creed)
