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title: "November 5, 2030 — Apostle James, the Brother of the Lord"
description: "Tuesday, November 5, 2030. 23 October (Old Style). Apostle James, the Brother of the Lord. No fast"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2030-11-05"
language: "en"
---

Tuesday

# November 5, 2030

23 October (Old Style) · 21st week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2030-11-05) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2030-11-05)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2030-11)

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## Events of the day

- Apostle James, the Brother of the Lord

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## Fasting

No fast

No fast today.

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

  Colossians 1:1–2, 7–11

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  1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

  2 to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

  7 even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on your behalf,

  8 who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.

  9 For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

  10 that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

  11 strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

- Epistle · St James

  Galatians 1:11–19

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  11 But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man.

  12 For I didn’t receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

  13 For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God and ravaged it.

  14 I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

  15 But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace

  16 to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,

  17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.

  18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days.

  19 But of the other apostles I saw no one except James, the Lord’s brother.

- Gospel

  Luke 11:1–10

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  1 When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”

  2 He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

  3 Give us day by day our daily bread.

  4 Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’ ”

  5 He said to them, “Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight, and tell him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

  6 for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him,’

  7 and he from within will answer and say, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can’t get up and give it to you’?

  8 I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.

  9 “I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

  10 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

- Gospel · St James

  Matthew 13:54–58

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  54 Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom, and these mighty works?

  55 Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?

  56 Aren’t all of his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all of these things?”

  57 They were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house.”

  58 He didn’t do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [The Jesus Prayer](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/jesus-prayer)
