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title: "November 6, 2024 — Martyr Arethas and the 4,299 with him"
description: "Wednesday, November 6, 2024. 24 October (Old Style). Martyr Arethas and the 4,299 with him; Icon of the Theotokos “Joy of All Who Sorrow”. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2024-11-06"
language: "en"
---

Wednesday

# November 6, 2024

24 October (Old Style) · 20th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

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## Events of the day

- Martyr Arethas and the 4,299 with him; Icon of the Theotokos “Joy of All Who Sorrow”

  Polyeleos rank

## Fasting

Fast day · Wednesday / Friday

Wednesday and Friday: fast without meat, dairy or eggs. Whether fish is allowed depends on the day's feast — check the church calendar.

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

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

  Philippians 2:24–30

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  24 But I trust in the Lord that I myself also will come shortly.

  25 But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need,

  26 since he longed for you all, and was very troubled because you had heard that he was sick.

  27 For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.

  28 I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

  29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such people in honor,

  30 because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.

- Gospel

  Luke 11:9–13

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  9 “I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

  10 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

  11 “Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?

  12 Or if he asks for an egg, he won’t give him a scorpion, will he?

  13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

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)