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title: "December 1, 2024 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Sunday, December 1, 2024. 1 December (Revised Julian). Fast day. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on spas.life."
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Sunday

# December 1, 2024

1 December (Revised Julian) · 23rd Sunday 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, Saturday and Sunday: fish is allowed.

- Meat: not allowed
- Dairy & eggs: not allowed
- Fish: 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

- 1st Matins Gospel

  Matthew 28:16–20

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  16 But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had sent them.

  17 When they saw him, they bowed down to him, but some doubted.

  18 Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

  19 Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

  20 teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

- Epistle

  Ephesians 2:4–10

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  4 But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

  5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

  6 and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

  7 that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;

  8 for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

  9 not of works, that no one would boast.

  10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

- Gospel

  Luke 18:18–27

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  18 A certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

  19 Jesus asked him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one: God.

  20 You know the commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ ”

  21 He said, “I have observed all these things from my youth up.”

  22 When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”

  23 But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was very rich.

  24 Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!

  25 For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”

  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.”

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [The Symbol of Faith (Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed)](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/creed)