--- title: "November 18, 2028 (New Style) | Church calendar" description: "Saturday, November 18, 2028. 18 November (Revised Julian). Fast day. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on…" url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2028-11-18" language: "en" --- Saturday # November 18, 2028 18 November (Revised Julian) · 24th week after Pentecost New Calendar (Revised Julian) [Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2028-11-18) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2028-11-18) [Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2028-11) [← November 17](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2028-11-17) [November 19 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2028-11-19) ## Events of the day No commemorations in the content package for this day yet ## 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 - Epistle 2 Corinthians 11:1–6 - Gospel Luke 9:57–62 **Show the text** 57 As they went on the way, a certain man said to him, “I want to follow you wherever you go, Lord.” 58 Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.” 59 He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.” 60 But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.” 61 Another also said, “I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house.” 62 But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.” Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, New Calendar (OCA practice). Text: World English Bible. ## Saints and icons - Prayer of the day: [Prayer for the departed](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/departed)