November 11, 2024

Events of the day

• Monk-martyr Anastasia of Rome; St Abraham of Rostov

  Commemoration

Fasting

No fast

No fast today.

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

  Philippians 4:10–23

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  ¹⁰But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length you have revived your thought for me; in which you did indeed take thought, but you lacked opportunity.

  ¹¹Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.

  ¹²I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

  ¹³I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

  ¹⁴However you did well that you shared in my affliction.

  ¹⁵You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good News, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only.

  ¹⁶For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need.

  ¹⁷Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

  ¹⁸But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

  ¹⁹My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

  ²⁰Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever! Amen.

  ²¹Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me greet you.

  ²²All the saints greet you, especially those who are of Caesar’s household.

  ²³The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

• Gospel

  Luke 11:29–33

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  ²⁹When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, “This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah, the prophet.

  ³⁰For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so the Son of Man will also be to this generation.

  ³¹The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and will condemn them: for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, one greater than Solomon is here.

  ³²The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.

  ³³“No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light.

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