December 2, 2020

Events of the day

• Prophet Obadiah; Martyr Barlaam; Sts Barlaam and Ioasaph, Prince of India

  Commemoration

Fasting

Fast day · Nativity Fast

Nativity Fast, Wednesday and Friday: xerophagy.

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

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 1:18–20, 2:8–15

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  ¹⁸I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare,

  ¹⁹holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith,

  ²⁰of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

  ⁸I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.

  ⁹In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety, not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing,

  ¹⁰but with good works, which is appropriate for women professing godliness.

  ¹¹Let a woman learn in quietness with full submission.

  ¹²But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.

  ¹³For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

  ¹⁴Adam wasn’t deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;

  ¹⁵but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.

• Gospel

  Luke 15:1–10

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  ¹Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.

  ²The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”

  ³He told them this parable.

  ⁴“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

  ⁵When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

  ⁶When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’

  ⁷I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

  ⁸Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?

  ⁹When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.’

  ¹⁰Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Trisagion