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Friday of the 24th week after Pentecost

Tone 6 · New Calendar November 13 · Old Calendar October 31

Old Calendar

Julian, October 31
Holy Apostles Stachys, Apelles, Amplias, Urban, Narcissus and Aristobolus.

Holy Apostles Stachys, Apelles, Amplias, Urban, Narcissus and Aristobolus.

Six of the Seventy greeted by St Paul in Romans 16, who according to tradition carried the Gospel to Byzantium, Thrace, Macedonia, Athens and Britain.

Full life
Fasting
Fasting day
Also today
New Martyr Nicholas of Chios (1754); Hieromartyr John Kochurov, Protopresbyter of Chicago and Tsarskoye Selo (1917)
Readings
Epistle: 1 Thessalonians 5.9-13, 24-28
Epistle (St John Kochurov): Hebrews 13.7-16
Gospel: Luke 11.23-26
Gospel (St John Kochurov): Luke 12.32-40
Gospel (St John Kochurov): John 10.9-16
Word for the day
What do we love most in the world? Life and health. Who is our life and health? Jesus Christ. Therefore, if you wish to live, and to eternally live and be blessed, believe in Jesus Christ, and please Him by living in accordance with His Gospel.
St John of Kronstadt, My Life in Christ