November 30, 2020

Events of the day

• St Gregory the Wonderworker, Bishop of Neocaesarea; St Nikon of Radonezh

  Polyeleos rank

Fasting

Fast day · Nativity Fast

Nativity Fast, Monday: cooked food without oil.

• Meat: not allowed
• Dairy & eggs: not allowed
• Fish: not allowed
• Oil: not allowed
• Wine: not 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

  1 Timothy 1:1–7

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  ¹Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope;

  ²to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

  ³As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

  ⁴and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—

  ⁵but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

  ⁶from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned away to vain talking,

  ⁷desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.

• Gospel

  Luke 14:12–15

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  ¹²He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.

  ¹³But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;

  ¹⁴and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”

  ¹⁵When one of those who sat at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, “Blessed is he who will feast in God’s Kingdom!”

Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, Julian calendar. Text: World English Bible.

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Morning prayer of St Macarius the Great