November 17, 2027

Events of the day

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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

  Colossians 3:17–4:1

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  ¹⁷Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

  ¹⁸Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

  ¹⁹Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

  ²⁰Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

  ²¹Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

  ²²Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

  ²³And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

  ²⁴knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

  ²⁵But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.

  ¹Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

• Gospel

  Luke 15:1–10

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  ¹Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.

  ²The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”

  ³He told them this parable.

  ⁴“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

  ⁵When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

  ⁶When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’

  ⁷I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

  ⁸Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?

  ⁹When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.’

  ¹⁰Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Trisagion