December 3, 2024

Events of the day

• St Gregory the Decapolite; St Proclus, Patriarch of Constantinople

  Commemoration

• Forefeast: Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple

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 Thessalonians 3:9–13

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

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

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

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

  ¹³to 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 17:26–37

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Jesus Prayer