November 25, 2031

Events of the day

• St John the Merciful, Patriarch of Alexandria; St Nilus the Faster

  Commemoration

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

  1 Timothy 1:8–14

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  ⁸But we know that the law is good, if a person uses it lawfully,

  ⁹as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

  ¹⁰for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,

  ¹¹according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

  ¹²I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;

  ¹³although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

  ¹⁴The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

• Gospel

  Luke 14:25–35

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  ²⁵Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,

  ²⁶“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

  ²⁷Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.

  ²⁸For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

  ²⁹Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,

  ³⁰saying, ‘This man began to build, and wasn’t able to finish.’

  ³¹Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

  ³²Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of peace.

  ³³So therefore whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.

  ³⁴Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it?

  ³⁵It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Jesus Prayer