November 26, 2024

Events of the day

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Fasting

Fast day · Nativity Fast

Nativity Fast, Tuesday and Thursday (Typikon ch. 33): wine and oil, no fish.

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

  1 Thessalonians 1:6–10

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  ⁶You became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

  ⁷so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.

  ⁸For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out, so that we need not to say anything.

  ⁹For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

  ¹⁰and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

• Gospel

  Luke 19:45–48

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  ⁴⁵He entered into the temple, and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it,

  ⁴⁶saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of robbers’!”

  ⁴⁷He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests, the scribes, and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.

  ⁴⁸They couldn’t find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said.

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Jesus Prayer