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26, Toubah 1742 (Tuesday, 3 February 2026)

Tuesday of Jonah's Fasting

Matins

Prophecy

Jonah 2:2-10

2And he said: I cried out to the Lord because of my affliction, And He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, And You heard my voice.3For You cast me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, And the floods surrounded me; All Your billows and Your waves passed over me.4Then I said, `I have been cast out of Your sight; Yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.'5The waters surrounded me, even to my soul; The deep closed around me; Weeds were wrapped around my head.6I went down to the moorings of the mountains; The earth with its bars closed behind me forever; Yet You have brought up my life from the pit, O Lord, my God.7When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord; And my prayer went up to You, Into Your holy temple.8Those who regard worthless idols Forsake their own Mercy.9But I will sacrifice to You With the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay what I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord.10So the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

Psalm

Psalms 103:14-15, 9-10

14For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust.15As for man, his days are like grass
9He will not always strive with us, Nor will He keep His anger forever.10He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor punished us according to our iniquities.

Gospel

Luke 13:6-9

6He also spoke this parable: A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none.7Then he said to the keeper of his vineyard, `Look, for three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none. Cut it down; why does it use up the ground?'8But he answered and said to him, `Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.9`And if it bears fruit, well. But if not, after that you can cut it down.'

Liturgy

Pauline

Colossians 1:21-29

21And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled22in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight--23if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.24I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the church,25of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God which was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God,26the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints.27To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.28Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.29To this end I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me mightily.

Catholic

1 Peter 4:3-11

3For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles--when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.4In regard to these, they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you.5They will give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.6For this reason the gospel was preached also to those who are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.7But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers.8And above all things have fervent love for one another, for love will cover a multitude of sins.9Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.10As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.11If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Acts

Acts 17:30-34

30Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,31because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.32And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, while others said, We will hear you again on this matter.33So Paul departed from among them.34However, some men joined him and believed, among them Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

Psalm

Psalms 85:2-3

2You have forgiven the iniquity of Your people; You have covered all their sin. Selah3You have taken away all Your wrath; You have turned from the fierceness of Your anger.

Gospel

Luke 11:29-36

29And while the crowds were thickly gathered together, He began to say, This is an evil generation. It seeks a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet.30For as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also the Son of Man will be to this generation.31The queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and indeed a greater than Solomon is here.32The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a greater than Jonah is here.33No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a secret place or under a basket, but on a lampstand, that those who come in may see the light.34The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your eye is good, your whole body also is full of light. But when your eye is bad, your body also is full of darkness.35Therefore take heed that the light which is in you is not darkness.36If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, the whole body will be full of light, as when the bright shining of a lamp gives you light.