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November 30, 2024

17 November (Old Style) · 23rd week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

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Events of the day

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

    Polyeleos rank

Fasting

Fast day · Nativity Fast

Nativity Fast, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday: fish is allowed.

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

By the Typikon (ch. 33) Tuesday and Thursday of the Apostles' and Nativity Fasts call for oil and wine only, fish only for a saint with a polyeleos; lay practice per the ROC calendar allows fish.

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

    2 Corinthians 8:1–5

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    1Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia,

    2how in much proof of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their generosity.

    3For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,

    4begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.

    5This was not as we had expected, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

  • Gospel

    Luke 9:57–62

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    57As they went on the way, a certain man said to him, “I want to follow you wherever you go, Lord.”

    58Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

    59He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

    60But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.”

    61Another also said, “I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house.”

    62But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.”

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

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