November 25, 2033

Events of the day

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

  Commemoration

Fasting

Fast day · Wednesday / Friday

Wednesday and Friday: fast without meat, dairy or eggs. Whether fish is allowed depends on the day's feast — check the church calendar.

• Meat: not allowed
• Dairy & eggs: not allowed
• Fish: not specified
• Oil: allowed
• Wine: allowed

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 5:9–13, 24–28

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  ⁹For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

  ¹⁰who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

  ¹¹Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

  ¹²But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you,

  ¹³and to respect and honor them in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

  ²⁴He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.

  ²⁵Brothers, pray for us.

  ²⁶Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss.

  ²⁷I solemnly command you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy brothers.

  ²⁸The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

• Gospel

  Luke 13:31–35

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  ³¹On that same day, some Pharisees came, saying to him, “Get out of here, and go away, for Herod wants to kill you.”

  ³²He said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I complete my mission.

  ³³Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, for it can’t be that a prophet would perish outside of Jerusalem.’

  ³⁴“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!

  ³⁵Behold, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ”

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Short penitential prayers