December 5, 2024

Events of the day

• Apostle Philemon and those with him; Right-believing Great Prince Michael of Tver

  Commemoration

• Afterfeast: Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple

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

  1 Thessalonians 5:1–8

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  ¹But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.

  ²For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

  ³For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.

  ⁴But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.

  ⁵You are all children of light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness,

  ⁶so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

  ⁷For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

  ⁸But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

• Gospel

  Luke 18:31–34

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  ³¹He took the twelve aside, and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.

  ³²For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on.

  ³³They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise again.”

  ³⁴They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn’t understand the things that were said.

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Prayer to the Holy Spirit “O Heavenly King”