November 30, 2029

Events of the day

• St Gregory the Wonderworker, Bishop of Neocaesarea; St Nikon of Radonezh

  Polyeleos rank

Fasting

Fast day · Nativity Fast

Nativity Fast, Wednesday and Friday: xerophagy.

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

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 Timothy 1:1–2, 8–18

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  ¹Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,

  ²to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

  ⁸Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

  ⁹who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

  ¹⁰but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

  ¹¹For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

  ¹²For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

  ¹³Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

  ¹⁴That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

  ¹⁵This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

  ¹⁶May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

  ¹⁷but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently and found me

  ¹⁸(the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.

• Gospel

  Luke 16:15–18, 17:1–4

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  ¹⁵He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

  ¹⁶The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of God’s Kingdom is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

  ¹⁷But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.

  ¹⁸Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

  ¹He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!

  ²It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

  ³Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

  ⁴If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.”

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Short penitential prayers