November 9, 2029

Events of the day

• Martyr Nestor of Thessalonica

  Commemoration

Fasting

Fast day · Wednesday / Friday

Wednesday and Friday: fast without meat, dairy or eggs. Whether fish is allowed depends on the day's feast — check the church calendar.

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

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 5:9–13, 24–28

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  ⁹For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

  ¹⁰who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

  ¹¹Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

  ¹²But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you,

  ¹³and to respect and honor them in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

  ²⁴He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.

  ²⁵Brothers, pray for us.

  ²⁶Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss.

  ²⁷I solemnly command you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy brothers.

  ²⁸The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

• Gospel

  Luke 11:23–26

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  ²³“He that is not with me is against me. He who doesn’t gather with me scatters.

  ²⁴The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, passes through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none, he says, ‘I will turn back to my house from which I came out.’

  ²⁵When he returns, he finds it swept and put in order.

  ²⁶Then he goes, and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Short penitential prayers