November 8, 2026

Events of the day

• Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and the other Bodiless Powers

  Polyeleos rank

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

• Vespers · Unmercenaries

  Isaiah 43:9–14

• Vespers

  Joshua 5:13–15

• Vespers · Unmercenaries

  Wisdom of Solomon 3:1–9

• Vespers

  Judges 6:2, 7, 11–24

• Vespers · Unmercenaries

  Wisdom of Solomon 5:15–6:3

• Vespers

  Isaiah 14:7–20

• 1st Matins Gospel

  Matthew 28:16–20

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  ¹⁶But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had sent them.

  ¹⁷When they saw him, they bowed down to him, but some doubted.

  ¹⁸Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

  ¹⁹Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

  ²⁰teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

• Epistle

  Ephesians 2:4–10

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  ⁴But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

  ⁵even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

  ⁶and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

  ⁷that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;

  ⁸for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

  ⁹not of works, that no one would boast.

  ¹⁰For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

• Epistle · Unmercenaries

  1 Corinthians 12:27–13:8

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  ²⁷Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

  ²⁸God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.

  ²⁹Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all miracle workers?

  ³⁰Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with various languages? Do all interpret?

  ³¹But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.

  ¹If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

  ²If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

  ³If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

  ⁴Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

  ⁵doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

  ⁶doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

  ⁷bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

  ⁸Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

• Epistle · Angels

  Hebrews 2:2–10

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  ²For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty,

  ³how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,

  ⁴God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?

  ⁵For he didn’t subject the world to come, of which we speak, to angels.

  ⁶But one has somewhere testified, saying, “What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him?

  ⁷You made him a little lower than the angels. You crowned him with glory and honor.

  ⁸You have put all things in subjection under his feet.” For in that he subjected all things to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we don’t see all things subjected to him, yet.

  ⁹But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.

  ¹⁰For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

• Gospel

  Luke 8:41–56

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  ⁴¹Behold, 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,

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

  ⁴³A 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

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

  ⁴⁵Jesus 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?’”

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

  ⁴⁷When 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.

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

  ⁴⁹While 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.”

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

  ⁵¹When 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.

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

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

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

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

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

• Gospel · Unmercenaries

  Matthew 10:1, 5–8

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  ¹He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness.

  ⁵Jesus sent these twelve out, and commanded them, saying, “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans.

  ⁶Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

  ⁷As you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’

  ⁸Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.

• Gospel · Angels

  Luke 10:16–21

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  ¹⁶Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

  ¹⁷The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”

  ¹⁸He said to them, “I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven.

  ¹⁹Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.

  ²⁰Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

  ²¹In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Symbol of Faith (Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed)