---
title: "November 25, 2026 — St John the Merciful, Patriarch of Alexandria"
description: "Wednesday, November 25, 2026. 12 November (Old Style). St John the Merciful, Patriarch of Alexandria; St Nilus the Faster. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-11-25"
language: "en"
---

Wednesday

# November 25, 2026

12 November (Old Style) · 26th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-11-25) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2026-11-25)

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

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## Events of the day

- St John the Merciful, Patriarch of Alexandria; St Nilus the Faster

  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 Timothy 1:18–20, 2:8–15

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  18 I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare,

  19 holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith,

  20 of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

  8 I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.

  9 In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety, not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing,

  10 but with good works, which is appropriate for women professing godliness.

  11 Let a woman learn in quietness with full submission.

  12 But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.

  13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

  14 Adam wasn’t deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;

  15 but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.

- Gospel

  Luke 12:48–59

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  48 but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

  49 “I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.

  50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!

  51 Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.

  52 For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.

  53 They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”

  54 He said to the multitudes also, “When you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say, ‘A shower is coming,’ and so it happens.

  55 When a south wind blows, you say, ‘There will be a scorching heat,’ and it happens.

  56 You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don’t interpret this time?

  57 Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?

  58 For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

  59 I tell you, you will by no means get out of there, until you have paid the very last penny.”

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)