December 2, 2022

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Fasting

Fast day · Nativity Fast

Nativity Fast, Wednesday and Friday: xerophagy.

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

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

  2 Thessalonians 3:6–18

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  ⁶Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

  ⁷For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn’t behave ourselves rebelliously among you,

  ⁸neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you,

  ⁹not because we don’t have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

  ¹⁰For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”

  ¹¹For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies.

  ¹²Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own bread.

  ¹³But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing what is right.

  ¹⁴If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.

  ¹⁵Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

  ¹⁶Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.

  ¹⁷The greeting of me, Paul, with my own hand, which is the sign in every letter: this is how I write.

  ¹⁸The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

• Gospel

  Luke 20:19–26

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  ¹⁹The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people—for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.

  ²⁰They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

  ²¹They asked him, “Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God.

  ²²Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”

  ²³But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, “Why do you test me?

  ²⁴Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?” They answered, “Caesar’s.”

  ²⁵He said to them, “Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

  ²⁶They weren’t able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer and were silent.

Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, New Calendar (OCA practice). Text: World English Bible.

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Short penitential prayers