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title: "November 30, 2023 — St Gregory the Wonderworker, Bishop of…"
description: "Thursday, November 30, 2023. 17 November (Old Style). St Gregory the Wonderworker, Bishop of Neocaesarea; St Nikon of Radonezh. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2023-11-30"
language: "en"
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Thursday

# November 30, 2023

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

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

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## Events of the day

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

  Polyeleos rank

## 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 3:1–13

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  1 This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.

  2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

  3 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

  4 one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

  5 (but how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule one’s own house take care of God’s assembly?)

  6 not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

  7 Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

  8 Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,

  9 holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

  10 Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.

  11 Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.

  12 Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

  13 For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

- Gospel

  Luke 16:1–9

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  1 He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

  2 He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’

  3 “The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.

  4 I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.’

  5 Calling each one of his lord’s debtors to him, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my lord?’

  6 He said, ‘A hundred batos of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’

  7 Then he said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred cors of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’

  8 “His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

  9 I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

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)