November 19, 2033

Events of the day

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Fasting

Fast day · Nativity Fast

Nativity Fast, Saturday and Sunday: fish is allowed.

• Meat: not allowed
• Dairy & eggs: not allowed
• Fish: allowed
• 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

  2 Corinthians 8:1–5

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  ¹Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia,

  ²how in much proof of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their generosity.

  ³For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,

  ⁴begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.

  ⁵This was not as we had expected, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

• Gospel

  Luke 9:57–62

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  ⁵⁷As they went on the way, a certain man said to him, “I want to follow you wherever you go, Lord.”

  ⁵⁸Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

  ⁵⁹He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

  ⁶⁰But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.”

  ⁶¹Another also said, “I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house.”

  ⁶²But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.”

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Prayer for the departed