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Thursday

# November 23, 2034

23 November (Revised Julian) · 26th week after Pentecost

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

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## Events of the day

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- Afterfeast: Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple

## 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 Timothy 3:1–13

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  1 This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.

  2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

  3 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

  4 one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

  5 (but how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule one’s own house take care of God’s assembly?)

  6 not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

  7 Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

  8 Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,

  9 holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

  10 Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.

  11 Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.

  12 Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

  13 For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

- Epistle · St Alexander

  Galatians 5:22–6:2

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  22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

  23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

  24 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

  25 If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.

  26 Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

  1 Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

  2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

- Gospel

  Luke 18:31–34

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  31 He took the twelve aside, and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.

  32 For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on.

  33 They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise again.”

  34 They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn’t understand the things that were said.

- Gospel · St Alexander

  Matthew 11:27–30

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  27 All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.

  28 “Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

  29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

  30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Prayer to the Holy Spirit “O Heavenly King”](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/heavenly-king)