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title: "November 24, 2022 — Great-martyr Menas | Church calendar"
description: "Thursday, November 24, 2022. 11 November (Old Style). Great-martyr Menas; St Theodore the Studite; Blessed Maximus the Fool-for-Christ of Moscow. No fast"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2022-11-24"
language: "en"
---

Thursday

# November 24, 2022

11 November (Old Style) · 24th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2022-11-24) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2022-11-24)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2022-11)

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## Events of the day

- Great-martyr Menas; St Theodore the Studite; Blessed Maximus the Fool-for-Christ of Moscow

  Polyeleos rank

## Fasting

No fast

No fast today.

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 5:1–8

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  1 But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.

  2 For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

  3 For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.

  4 But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.

  5 You are all children of light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness,

  6 so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

  7 For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

  8 But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

- Gospel

  Luke 13:1–9

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  1 Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

  2 Jesus answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such things?

  3 I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.

  4 Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them; do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?

  5 I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.”

  6 He spoke this parable. “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none.

  7 He said to the vine dresser, ‘Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?’

  8 He answered, ‘Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

  9 If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.’ ”

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Prayer to the Holy Spirit “O Heavenly King”](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/heavenly-king)