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title: "July 26, 2024 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Friday, July 26, 2024. 26 July (Revised Julian). Fast day. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on spas.life."
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Friday

# July 26, 2024

26 July (Revised Julian) · 5th week after Pentecost

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2024-07-26) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2024-07-26)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2024-07)

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## Events of the day

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## 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

- Vespers

  Wisdom of Solomon 5:15–6:3

- Vespers

  1 John 4:1–6

- Vespers

  1 John 4:20–5:5

- Matins Gospel

  John 10:9–16

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  9 I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.

  10 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

  11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

  12 He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.

  13 The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn’t care for the sheep.

  14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;

  15 even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

  16 I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

- Epistle

  Romans 16:1–16

- Epistle · St Jacob

  Philippians 3:7–14

- Gospel

  Matthew 13:3–9

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  3 He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.

  4 As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.

  5 Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.

  6 When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.

  7 Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.

  8 Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

  9 He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

- Gospel · St Jacob

  Mark 10:29–31, 42–45

Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, New Calendar (OCA practice). Text: World English Bible.

## Saints and icons

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