November 20, 2024

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, 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 3:17–4:1

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  ¹⁷Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

  ¹⁸Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

  ¹⁹Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

  ²⁰Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

  ²¹Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

  ²²Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

  ²³And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

  ²⁴knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

  ²⁵But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.

  ¹Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

• Gospel

  Luke 18:15–17, 26–30

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  ¹⁵They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.

  ¹⁶Jesus summoned them, saying, “Allow the little children to come to me, and don’t hinder them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

  ¹⁷Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn’t receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”

  ²⁶Those who heard it said, “Then who can be saved?”

  ²⁷But he said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.”

  ²⁸Peter said, “Look, we have left everything and followed you.”

  ²⁹He said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for God’s Kingdom’s sake,

  ³⁰who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life.”

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Trisagion