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Monday

# November 20, 2023

20 November (Revised Julian) · 25th week after Pentecost

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2023-11-20) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2023-11-20)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2023-11)

[← November 19](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2023-11-19) [November 21 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2023-11-21)

## Events of the day

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- Forefeast: Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple

## Fasting

Fast day · Nativity Fast

Nativity Fast, Monday: cooked food without oil.

- Meat: not allowed
- Dairy & eggs: not allowed
- Fish: not allowed
- Oil: not allowed
- Wine: not 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

  2 Thessalonians 1:1–10

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  1 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ:

  2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

  3 We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

  4 so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

  5 This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer.

  6 Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,

  7 and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,

  8 punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

  9 who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

  10 when he comes in that day to be glorified in his saints and to be admired among all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.

- Gospel

  Luke 17:20–25

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  20 Being asked by the Pharisees when God’s Kingdom would come, he answered them, “God’s Kingdom doesn’t come with observation;

  21 neither will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ for behold, God’s Kingdom is within you.”

  22 He said to the disciples, “The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

  23 They will tell you, ‘Look, here!’ or ‘Look, there!’ Don’t go away or follow after them,

  24 for as the lightning, when it flashes out of one part under the sky, shines to another part under the sky; so will the Son of Man be in his day.

  25 But first, he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Morning prayer of St Macarius the Great](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/morning-macarius)