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title: "December 2, 2028 — Prophet Obadiah | Church calendar"
description: "Saturday, December 2, 2028. 19 November (Old Style). Prophet Obadiah; Martyr Barlaam; Sts Barlaam and Ioasaph, Prince of India. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2028-12-02"
language: "en"
---

Saturday

# December 2, 2028

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

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2028-12-02) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2028-12-02)

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

[← December 1](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2028-12-01) [December 3 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2028-12-03)

## 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

  Galatians 3:8–12

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  8 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”

  9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

  10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

  11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”

  12 The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.”

- Gospel

  Luke 9:57–62

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  57 As they went on the way, a certain man said to him, “I want to follow you wherever you go, Lord.”

  58 Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

  59 He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

  60 But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.”

  61 Another also said, “I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house.”

  62 But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.”

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Prayer for the departed](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/departed)