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title: "December 1, 2020 — Martyrs Plato and Roman | Church calendar"
description: "Tuesday, December 1, 2020. 18 November (Old Style). Martyrs Plato and Roman. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2020-12-01"
language: "en"
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Tuesday

# December 1, 2020

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

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2020-12-01) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-12-01)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2020-12)

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## Events of the day

- Martyrs Plato and Roman

  Commemoration

## Fasting

Fast day · Nativity Fast

Nativity Fast, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday: fish is allowed.

- Meat: not allowed
- Dairy & eggs: not allowed
- Fish: allowed
- Oil: allowed
- Wine: allowed

By the Typikon (ch. 33) Tuesday and Thursday of the Apostles' and Nativity Fasts call for oil and wine only, fish only for a saint with a polyeleos; lay practice per the ROC calendar allows fish.

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 1:8–14

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  8 But we know that the law is good, if a person uses it lawfully,

  9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

  10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,

  11 according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

  12 I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;

  13 although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

  14 The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

- Gospel

  Luke 14:25–35

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  25 Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,

  26 “If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

  27 Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.

  28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

  29 Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,

  30 saying, ‘This man began to build, and wasn’t able to finish.’

  31 Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

  32 Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of peace.

  33 So therefore whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.

  34 Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it?

  35 It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [The Jesus Prayer](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/jesus-prayer)