November 22, 2029

Events of the day

• Martyrs Onesiphorus and Porphyrius; St Matrona; St Nectarius of Aegina

  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

  1 Timothy 3:1–13

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  ¹This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.

  ²The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

  ³not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

  ⁴one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

  ⁵(but how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule one’s own house take care of God’s assembly?)

  ⁶not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

  ⁷Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

  ⁸Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,

  ⁹holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

  ¹⁰Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.

  ¹¹Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.

  ¹²Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

  ¹³For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

• Gospel

  Luke 13:1–9

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  ¹Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

  ²Jesus answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such things?

  ³I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.

  ⁴Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them; do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?

  ⁵I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.”

  ⁶He spoke this parable. “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none.

  ⁷He said to the vine dresser, ‘Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?’

  ⁸He answered, ‘Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

  ⁹If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.’ ”

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”