November 29, 2027

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Fasting

Fast day · Nativity Fast

Nativity Fast, Monday: cooked food without oil.

• Meat: not allowed
• Dairy & eggs: not allowed
• Fish: not allowed
• Oil: not allowed
• Wine: not 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 2:20–3:8

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  ²⁰For you are our glory and our joy.

  ¹Therefore when we couldn’t stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,

  ²and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,

  ³that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

  ⁴For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.

  ⁵For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

  ⁶But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you,

  ⁷for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.

  ⁸For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

• Gospel

  Luke 19:37–44

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  ³⁷As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen,

  ³⁸saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!”

  ³⁹Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!”

  ⁴⁰He answered them, “I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out.”

  ⁴¹When he came near, he saw the city and wept over it,

  ⁴²saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.

  ⁴³For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,

  ⁴⁴and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Morning prayer of St Macarius the Great