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Wednesday

# November 20, 2024

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

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

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

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

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

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

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

  22 Servants, 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.

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

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

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

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

  16 Jesus 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.

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

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

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

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

  29 He 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,

  30 who 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](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/trisagion)