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title: "November 28, 2026 — Martyrs and Confessors Gurias, Samonas and…"
description: "Saturday, November 28, 2026. 15 November (Old Style). Martyrs and Confessors Gurias, Samonas and Abibus. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-11-28"
language: "en"
---

Saturday

# November 28, 2026

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

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-11-28) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2026-11-28)

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

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## Events of the day

- Martyrs and Confessors Gurias, Samonas and Abibus

  Commemoration

- [Nativity (St Philip's) Fast begins](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/history/basics-fasting)

  Informational

## Fasting

Fast day · Nativity Fast

Nativity Fast, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday: fish is allowed.

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

By the Typikon (ch. 33) Tuesday and Thursday of the Apostles' and Nativity Fasts call for oil and wine only, fish only for a saint with a polyeleos; lay practice per the ROC calendar allows fish.

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

  Galatians 3:8–12

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  8 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”

  9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

  10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

  11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”

  12 The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.”

- Gospel

  Luke 9:37–43

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  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)