Sunday 30th November 2025
Nativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowed
Tone 8 - Eothinon 3
25th after Pentecost, 13th of Luke
Holy Apostle Andrew the First-called
Today we commemorate:
St. Frumentius, archbishop of and Enlightener of Ethiopia (c.380). St. Alexander, bishop of Mithymna on Lesbos.
British Isles and Ireland:
St. Tudwal, bishop in Wales and Brittany (6th C).
Ephesians 4:1-7; Luke 18:18-27
For the Commemoration: 1 Corinthians 4:9-16; John 1:35-51
Readings in bold type are those appointed by the Typikon for use at the Liturgy
Ephesians 4:1-7
Brothers and sisters, I, the prisoner for the Lord, beg you to walk as befits the calling to which you have been called with all humility and meekness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, zealous to protect the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope by your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and is in us all. Each one of us has been given grace according to the measure of Christ’s free gift.
Luke 18:18-27
At that time there was a ruler who questioned Jesus, asking, ‘Good Teacher, what have I to do to inherit everlasting life?’ Jesus said to him, ‘Why do you call me good? No one is good except one, that is God. You know the commandments: you shall not commit adultery; you shall not murder; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness; honour your father and your mother.’ He replied, ‘I have kept all these from my youth.’ On hearing this, Jesus told him, ‘There is still one thing you lack. Sell everything, whatever you have, and distribute it among the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.’ But when he heard this, he was deeply grieved because he was extremely rich. Seeing him overcome with sorrow, Jesus said, ‘How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the Kingdom of God. Yes, it is easier for a camel to go in through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the Kingdom of God.’ Those listening asked, ‘Then who can be saved?’ And he replied, ‘What is impossible for human beings is possible for God.’
1 Corinthians 4:9-16
Brothers and sisters, God has exhibited us, the apostles, in last place, like those appointed to die, for we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people. We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, while you are strong. You are the honoured, and we the dishonoured. Right up to the present time we hunger and thirst. We are ragged and battered and homeless. We labour, working with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when persecuted, we endure it; when vilified, we offer encouragement. We have become the scum of the earth, like everyone’s scraped off dirt, right up to the present time. I am not writing these things to shame you but to warn you, my beloved children. You may have ten thousand tutors in Christ but you do not have many fathers, and in Christ Jesus, through the Gospel, I became your father. I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.
John 1:35-51
At that time John stood with two of his disciples and watched Jesus walking by. He said, ‘You see the Lamb of God.’ The two disciples heard what he said and followed Jesus. Turning and seeing them following, Jesus asked them, ‘What do you want?’ They said to him, ‘Rabbi,’ which means Teacher, ‘where are you staying?’ He told them, ‘Come and see.’ They went and saw where he was staying and remained with him that day. It was about the tenth hour. Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard John and followed Jesus. He first found his own brother Simon and told him, ‘We have found the Messiah,’ which means the Anointed. He brought him to Jesus who looked at him and said, ‘You are Simon, son of Jonah. You shall be called Kephas,’ which means Rock. On the following day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. There he found Philip and said to him, ‘Follow me.’ Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael and told him, ‘We have found the one of whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote: Jesus, son of Joseph, from Nazareth.’ Nathanael asked him, ‘Can anything good come out of Nazareth?’ And Philip replied, ‘Come and see.’ Jesus saw Nathanael approaching him, and he said of him, ‘Here is an Israelite indeed in whom there is no guile.’ Nathanael asked him, ‘How do you know me?’ And Jesus told him, ‘Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.’ Nathanael’s response was to say to him, ‘Rabbi, you are the Son of God. You are the King of Israel.’ And in reply Jesus said to him, ‘Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You shall see greater things than these.’ And he said, ‘Truly, truly I tell you that from now on you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.’