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title: "December 2, 2020 — Prophet Obadiah | Church calendar"
description: "Wednesday, December 2, 2020. 19 November (Old Style). Prophet Obadiah; Martyr Barlaam; Sts Barlaam and Ioasaph, Prince of India. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2020-12-02"
language: "en"
---

Wednesday

# December 2, 2020

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

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2020-12-02) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-12-02)

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

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## Events of the day

- Prophet Obadiah; Martyr Barlaam; Sts Barlaam and Ioasaph, Prince of India

  Commemoration

## 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

  1 Timothy 1:18–20, 2:8–15

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  18 I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare,

  19 holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith,

  20 of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

  8 I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.

  9 In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety, not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing,

  10 but with good works, which is appropriate for women professing godliness.

  11 Let a woman learn in quietness with full submission.

  12 But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.

  13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

  14 Adam wasn’t deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;

  15 but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.

- Gospel

  Luke 15:1–10

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

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

  3 He 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?

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

  6 When 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!’

  7 I 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.

  8 Or 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?

  9 When 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.’

  10 Even 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, Julian calendar. Text: World English Bible.

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [The Trisagion](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/trisagion)