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title: "November 14, 2023 — Unmercenaries and Wonderworkers Cosmas and…"
description: "Tuesday, November 14, 2023. 1 November (Old Style). Unmercenaries and Wonderworkers Cosmas and Damian of Asia. No fast"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2023-11-14"
language: "en"
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Tuesday

# November 14, 2023

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

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2023-11-14) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2023-11-14)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2023-11)

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## Events of the day

- Unmercenaries and Wonderworkers Cosmas and Damian of Asia

  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 3:9–13

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  9 For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,

  10 night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

  11 Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.

  12 May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

  13 to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

- Gospel

  Luke 11:34–41

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  34 The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.

  35 Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn’t darkness.

  36 If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light.”

  37 Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in, and sat at the table.

  38 When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.

  39 The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

  40 You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?

  41 But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

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)