---
title: "December 1, 2028 — Martyrs Plato and Roman | Church calendar"
description: "Friday, December 1, 2028. 18 November (Old Style). Martyrs Plato and Roman. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2028-12-01"
language: "en"
---

Friday

# December 1, 2028

18 November (Old Style) · 26th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2028-12-01) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2028-12-01)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2028-12)

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## Events of the day

- Martyrs Plato and Roman

  Commemoration

## Fasting

Fast day · Nativity Fast

Nativity Fast, Wednesday and Friday: xerophagy.

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

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 Timothy 4:4–8, 16

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  4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.

  5 For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.

  6 If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

  7 But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.

  8 For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

  16 Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

- Gospel

  Luke 16:15–18, 17:1–4

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  15 He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

  16 The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of God’s Kingdom is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

  17 But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.

  18 Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

  1 He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!

  2 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

  3 Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

  4 If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.”

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)