November 20, 2027

Events of the day

• The 33 Martyrs of Melitene; St Lazarus of Mount Galesion

  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

  2 Corinthians 5:1–10

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  ¹For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

  ²For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,

  ³if indeed being clothed, we will not be found naked.

  ⁴For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened, not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

  ⁵Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

  ⁶Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;

  ⁷for we walk by faith, not by sight.

  ⁸We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

  ⁹Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.

  ¹⁰For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

• Gospel

  Luke 9:1–6

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  ¹He called the twelve together, and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases.

  ²He sent them out to preach God’s Kingdom and to heal the sick.

  ³He said to them, “Take nothing for your journey—no staffs, nor wallet, nor bread, nor money. Don’t have two coats each.

  ⁴Into whatever house you enter, stay there, and depart from there.

  ⁵As many as don’t receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them.”

  ⁶They departed and went throughout the villages, preaching the Good News and healing everywhere.

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Prayer for the departed