November 27, 2033

Events of the day

• Apostle Philip; St Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica

  Polyeleos rank

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

• Vespers

  1 Peter 1:1–2:6

• Vespers

  1 Peter 2:21–3:9

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  ²¹For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

  ²²who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”

  ²³When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

  ²⁴He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

  ²⁵For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

  ¹In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word,

  ²seeing your pure behavior in fear.

  ³Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;

  ⁴but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

  ⁵For this is how in the past, the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands.

  ⁶So Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

  ⁷You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

  ⁸Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

  ⁹not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

• Vespers

  1 Peter 4:1–11

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  ¹Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

  ²that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

  ³For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

  ⁴They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.

  ⁵They will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

  ⁶For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.

  ⁷But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

  ⁸And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

  ⁹Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.

  ¹⁰As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

  ¹¹If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

• 2nd Matins Gospel

  Mark 16:1–8

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  ¹When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.

  ²Very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.

  ³They were saying among themselves, “Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?”

  ⁴for it was very big. Looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back.

  ⁵Entering into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were amazed.

  ⁶He said to them, “Don’t be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen. He is not here. Behold, the place where they laid him!

  ⁷But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he said to you.’ ”

  ⁸They went out, and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come on them. They said nothing to anyone; for they were afraid.

• Epistle

  Ephesians 2:14–22

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  ¹⁴For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of separation,

  ¹⁵having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace,

  ¹⁶and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility through it.

  ¹⁷He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.

  ¹⁸For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

  ¹⁹So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God,

  ²⁰being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

  ²¹in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;

  ²²in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

• Epistle · St Philip

  1 Corinthians 4:9–16

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  ⁹For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

  ¹⁰We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

  ¹¹Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

  ¹²We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

  ¹³Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

  ¹⁴I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

  ¹⁵For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

  ¹⁶I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.

• Gospel

  Luke 10:25–37

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  ²⁵Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

  ²⁶He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”

  ²⁷He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

  ²⁸He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”

  ²⁹But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”

  ³⁰Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.

  ³¹By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

  ³²In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side.

  ³³But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,

  ³⁴came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

  ³⁵On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, gave them to the host, and said to him, ‘Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.’

  ³⁶Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?”

  ³⁷He said, “He who showed mercy on him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”

• Gospel · St Philip

  John 1:43–51

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  ⁴³On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, “Follow me.”

  ⁴⁴Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter.

  ⁴⁵Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

  ⁴⁶Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”

  ⁴⁷Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

  ⁴⁸Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”

  ⁴⁹Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!”

  ⁵⁰Jesus answered him, “Because I told you, ‘I saw you underneath the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these!”

  ⁵¹He said to him, “Most certainly, I tell you all, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Symbol of Faith (Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed)