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Friday, November 6, 2026 Julian: October 24 Tone 5 Fasting day St Paul the Confessor of Constantinople

New Calendar

Revised Julian, November 6

St Paul the Confessor of Constantinople

Six stichera

Archbishop of Constantinople and defender of the Nicene faith, repeatedly exiled under Constantius II and strangled at Cucusus around 350.

Full life

Fasting: Fasting day
Also today: Rep. St Herman, Archbishop of Kazan; Ven. Luke of Sicily (Taormina)
Readings: Epistle: 1 Thessalonians 2.14-19
Gospel: Luke 12.2-12

Old Calendar

Julian, October 24

Martyr Arethas and Companions

Elder of the Christians of Najran in Arabia, beheaded in 523 with thousands of his people for refusing to deny Christ under the Himyarite king Dhu Nuwas.

Full life

Fasting: Fasting day
Readings: Epistle: 1 Thessalonians 2.14-19
Gospel: Luke 10.1-15

Word for the day

The whole Gospel is the gospel of the kingdom to which Christians are predestined, and forms as though one single promise (all the parables, all the prophecies and miracles); the epistles of the Apostles reveal in greater detail the promises of Christian hope.

St John of Kronstadt, My Life in Christ

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Friday of the 23rd week after Pentecost

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St Paul the Confessor of Constantinople

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Martyr Arethas and Companions

March 2030