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title: "February 13, 2026 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Friday, February 13, 2026. 13 February (Revised Julian). Fast day. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on…"
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Friday

# February 13, 2026

13 February (Revised Julian) · Meatfare Week

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-02-13) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2026-02-13)

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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

- Epistle

  2 John 1:1–13

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  1 The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those who know the truth,

  2 for the truth’s sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:

  3 Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

  4 I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.

  5 Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

  6 This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

  7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.

  8 Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

  9 Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

  10 If anyone comes to you, and doesn’t bring this teaching, don’t receive him into your house, and don’t welcome him,

  11 for he who welcomes him participates in his evil deeds.

  12 Having many things to write to you, I don’t want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be made full.

  13 The children of your chosen sister greet you. Amen.

- Gospel

  Mark 15:22, 25, 33–41

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  22 They brought him to the place called Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, “The place of a skull.”

  25 It was the third hour, and they crucified him.

  33 When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

  34 At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is, being interpreted, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

  35 Some of those who stood by, when they heard it, said, “Behold, he is calling Elijah.”

  36 One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Let him be. Let’s see whether Elijah comes to take him down.”

  37 Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit.

  38 The veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom.

  39 When the centurion, who stood by opposite him, saw that he cried out like this and breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”

  40 There were also women watching from afar, among whom were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;

  41 who, when he was in Galilee, followed him and served him; and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.

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)