November 30, 2027

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

  1 Thessalonians 3:9–13

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  ⁹For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,

  ¹⁰night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

  ¹¹Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.

  ¹²May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

  ¹³to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

• Gospel

  Luke 14:25–35

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  ²⁵Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,

  ²⁶“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

  ²⁷Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.

  ²⁸For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

  ²⁹Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,

  ³⁰saying, ‘This man began to build, and wasn’t able to finish.’

  ³¹Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

  ³²Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of peace.

  ³³So therefore whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.

  ³⁴Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it?

  ³⁵It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Jesus Prayer