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title: "November 15, 2024 — Martyrs Acindynus, Pegasius, Aphthonius…"
description: "Friday, November 15, 2024. 2 November (Old Style). Martyrs Acindynus, Pegasius, Aphthonius, Elpidephorus and Anempodistus. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2024-11-15"
language: "en"
---

Friday

# November 15, 2024

2 November (Old Style) · 21st week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2024-11-15) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2024-11-15)

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## Events of the day

- Martyrs Acindynus, Pegasius, Aphthonius, Elpidephorus and Anempodistus

  Commemoration

## 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

  Colossians 2:1–7

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  1 For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

  2 that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

  3 in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

  4 Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

  5 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

  6 As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

  7 rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

- Gospel

  Luke 12:2–12

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  2 But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known.

  3 Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

  4 “I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

  5 But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him.

  6 “Aren’t five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one of them is forgotten by God.

  7 But the very hairs of your head are all counted. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

  8 “I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, the Son of Man will also confess before the angels of God;

  9 but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of God’s angels.

  10 Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

  11 When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don’t be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say;

  12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say.”

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Short penitential prayers](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/penitential-short)