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title: "November 30, 2020 — St Gregory the Wonderworker, Bishop of…"
description: "Monday, November 30, 2020. 17 November (Old Style). St Gregory the Wonderworker, Bishop of Neocaesarea; St Nikon of Radonezh. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2020-11-30"
language: "en"
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Monday

# November 30, 2020

17 November (Old Style) · 26th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2020-11-30) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-11-30)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2020-11)

[← November 29](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2020-11-29) [December 1 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2020-12-01)

## Events of the day

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

  Polyeleos rank

## 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 Timothy 1:1–7

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  1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope;

  2 to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

  3 As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

  4 and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—

  5 but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

  6 from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned away to vain talking,

  7 desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.

- Gospel

  Luke 14:12–15

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  12 He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.

  13 But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;

  14 and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”

  15 When one of those who sat at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, “Blessed is he who will feast in God’s Kingdom!”

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Morning prayer of St Macarius the Great](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/morning-macarius)