November 12, 2025

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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 2:1–8

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  ¹For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,

  ²but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.

  ³For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.

  ⁴But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak: not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

  ⁵For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

  ⁶nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

  ⁷But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

  ⁸Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

• Gospel

  Luke 12:48–59

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  ⁴⁸but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

  ⁴⁹“I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.

  ⁵⁰But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!

  ⁵¹Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.

  ⁵²For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.

  ⁵³They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”

  ⁵⁴He said to the multitudes also, “When you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say, ‘A shower is coming,’ and so it happens.

  ⁵⁵When a south wind blows, you say, ‘There will be a scorching heat,’ and it happens.

  ⁵⁶You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don’t interpret this time?

  ⁵⁷Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?

  ⁵⁸For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

  ⁵⁹I tell you, you will by no means get out of there, until you have paid the very last penny.”

Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, New Calendar (OCA practice). Text: World English Bible.

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Trisagion