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title: "November 18, 2024 (New Style) | Church calendar"
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Monday

# November 18, 2024

18 November (Revised Julian) · 22nd week after Pentecost

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

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## Events of the day

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## 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

  Colossians 2:13–20

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  13 You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

  14 wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.

  15 Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

  16 Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

  17 which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.

  18 Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

  19 and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.

  20 If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

- 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)