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title: "November 15, 2024 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Friday, November 15, 2024. 15 November (Revised Julian). Fast day. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on…"
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Friday

# November 15, 2024

15 November (Revised Julian) · 21st week after Pentecost

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2024-11-15) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2024-11-15)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2024-11)

[← November 14](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2024-11-14) [November 16 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2024-11-16)

## Events of the day

- [Nativity (St Philip's) Fast begins](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/history/basics-fasting)

  Informational

## 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

  Colossians 2:1–7

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  1 For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

  2 that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

  3 in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

  4 Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

  5 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

  6 As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

  7 rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

- Gospel

  Luke 16:15–18, 17:1–4

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  15 He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

  16 The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of God’s Kingdom is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

  17 But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.

  18 Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

  1 He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!

  2 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

  3 Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

  4 If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.”

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Short penitential prayers](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/penitential-short)