November 17, 2029

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

• Epistle

  Galatians 1:3–10

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  ³Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,

  ⁴who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

  ⁵to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

  ⁶I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”,

  ⁷but there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

  ⁸But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.

  ⁹As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches to you any “good news” other than that which you received, let him be cursed.

  ¹⁰For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

• Gospel

  Luke 9:57–62

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  ⁵⁷As they went on the way, a certain man said to him, “I want to follow you wherever you go, Lord.”

  ⁵⁸Jesus 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.”

  ⁵⁹He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

  ⁶⁰But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.”

  ⁶¹Another also said, “I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house.”

  ⁶²But 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