Thursday

November 27, 2025

14 November (Old Style) · 25th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

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Events of the day

Apostle Philip; St Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica

Polyeleos rank

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

Vespers

1 Peter 1:1–2:6
Vespers

1 Peter 2:21–3:9

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²¹For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,
²²who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”
²³When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.
²⁴He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.
²⁵For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
¹In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word,
²seeing your pure behavior in fear.
³Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;
⁴but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.
⁵For this is how in the past, the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands.
⁶So Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.
⁷You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
⁸Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,
⁹not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.
Vespers

1 Peter 4:1–11

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¹Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,
²that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
³For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.
⁴They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.
⁵They will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
⁶For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.
⁷But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
⁸And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
⁹Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.
¹⁰As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.
¹¹If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Matins Gospel

John 21:15–25

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¹⁵So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”
¹⁶He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”
¹⁷He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
¹⁸Most certainly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself and walked where you wanted to. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you don’t want to go.”
¹⁹Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”
²⁰Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following. This was the disciple whom Jesus loved, the one who had also leaned on Jesus’ breast at the supper and asked, “Lord, who is going to betray you?”
²¹Peter seeing him, said to Jesus, “Lord, what about this man?”
²²Jesus said to him, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.”
²³This saying therefore went out among the brothers, that this disciple wouldn’t die. Yet Jesus didn’t say to him that he wouldn’t die, but, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?”
²⁴This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and wrote these things. We know that his witness is true.
²⁵There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself wouldn’t have room for the books that would be written.
Epistle

2 Thessalonians 2:13–3:5

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¹³But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,
¹⁴to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
¹⁵So then, brothers, stand firm and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word or by letter.
¹⁶Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
¹⁷comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.
¹Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you,
²and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for not all have faith.
³But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.
⁴We have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you both do and will do the things we command.
⁵May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love, and into the perseverance of Christ.
Epistle · St Philip

1 Corinthians 4:9–16

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⁹For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
¹⁰We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.
¹¹Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
¹²We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
¹³Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
¹⁴I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
¹⁵For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
¹⁶I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.
Gospel

Luke 16:1–9

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¹He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.
²He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’
³“The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.
⁴I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.’
⁵Calling each one of his lord’s debtors to him, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my lord?’
⁶He said, ‘A hundred batos of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’
⁷Then he said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred cors of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’
⁸“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.
⁹I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.
Gospel · St Philip

John 1:43–51

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⁴³On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, “Follow me.”
⁴⁴Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter.
⁴⁵Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
⁴⁶Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
⁴⁷Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”
⁴⁸Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”
⁴⁹Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!”
⁵⁰Jesus answered him, “Because I told you, ‘I saw you underneath the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these!”
⁵¹He said to him, “Most certainly, I tell you all, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

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

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