December 1, 2024

Events of the day

• Martyrs Plato and Roman

  Commemoration

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

• 1st Matins Gospel

  Matthew 28:16–20

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  ¹⁶But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had sent them.

  ¹⁷When they saw him, they bowed down to him, but some doubted.

  ¹⁸Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

  ¹⁹Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

  ²⁰teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

• Epistle

  Ephesians 2:4–10

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  ⁴But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

  ⁵even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

  ⁶and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

  ⁷that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;

  ⁸for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

  ⁹not of works, that no one would boast.

  ¹⁰For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

• Gospel

  Luke 12:16–21

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  ¹⁶He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly.

  ¹⁷He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’

  ¹⁸He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

  ¹⁹I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’

  ²⁰“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

  ²¹So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Symbol of Faith (Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed)