December 2, 2027

Events of the day

• Prophet Obadiah; Martyr Barlaam; Sts Barlaam and Ioasaph, Prince of India

  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

• Epistle

  1 Thessalonians 5:1–8

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  ¹But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.

  ²For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

  ³For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.

  ⁴But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.

  ⁵You are all children of light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness,

  ⁶so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

  ⁷For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

  ⁸But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

• Gospel

  Luke 16:1–9

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  ¹He 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.

  ²He 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.

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

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

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

  ⁷Then 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.

  ⁹I 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”