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Commemorations and appointed readings for Saturday, November 28, 2026.

Saturday, November 28, 2026

Our parish keeps the Old Style (Julian) calendar, 13 days behind the civil date. The commemorations below follow the Church's reckoning.

Showing Saturday, November 28, 2026 (Old Style: November 15)

Liturgy

Begin Nativity Fast

Saturday of the 26th week after Pentecost

Fasting season: Nativity Fast

Also Commemorated

Today's Saints

  • Begin Nativity Fast
  • Our Venerable Father Paisius Velichkovsky (1794)

Appointed for the Day

Scripture Readings

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Epistle Galatians 3.8-12

And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.

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Gospel Luke 9.37-43

And it came to pass, that on the next day, when they were come down from the hill, much people met him. And, behold, a man of the company cried out, saying, Master, I beseech thee, look upon my son: for he is mine only child. And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out; and it teareth him that he foameth again, and bruising him hardly departeth from him. And I besought thy disciples to cast him out; and they could not. And Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and suffer you? Bring thy son hither. And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare him. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his father.

And they were all amazed at the mighty power of God. But while they wondered every one at all things which Jesus did, he said unto his disciples,

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Seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses.
Hebrews 12:1