Sunday 23rd November 2025
Nativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowed
Tone 7 - Eothinon 2
24th after Pentecost, 9th of Luke
Afterfeast of the Entrance of the Mother of God into the Temple
Today we commemorate:
St. Amphilochius, bishop of Iconium (394). St. Gregory, bishop of Agrigentum (594). St. Ischyrion, bishop in Egypt and hermit of Sketis (3rd C). Venerable Sisinios the Confessor, bishop of Kyzikos (c.325). St. Dionysios 1st, patriarch of Constantinople (15th C). St. Alexander Nevsky (in schema Alexis), grand prince of Novgorod (1263).
British Isles and Ireland:
St. Columbanus of Bobbio, abbot and missionary (615). St. Polin, abbot of Whitland (6th C).
Ephesians 2:14-22; Luke 12:16-21,8:8
Readings in bold type are those appointed by the Typikon for use at the Liturgy
Ephesians 2:14-22
Brothers and sisters, Christ is our peace. He made Jew and Gentile one, and he tore down the partition of separation and hostility through his flesh. He abolished the law with its commandments and regulations so that in himself he might make the two into one new person and bring peace; he reconciled both to God in one body by the cross and thus put an end to the hostility. He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near, because through him we both have access through one Spirit to the Father. You are therefore truly no longer foreigners and incomers, but fellow citizens with the saints; and you are of the household of God that is being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Jesus Christ himself is the cornerstone in whom the whole building, closely fitting together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you too are being built together into a place for God to live in the Spirit.
Luke 12:16-21,8:8
The Lord told this parable. ‘The land of a certain rich man yielded abundantly. He thought to himself, “What shall I do? I have no room to store my produce.” Then he said, “This is what I shall do; I shall pull down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I shall gather all my crops and my goods. And I shall say to my soul, ‘Soul, you have many good things stored away for many years. Take your ease. Eat, drink, and be merry.’” But God said to him, “Fool, tonight your life will be reclaimed from you. And these things that you prepared, to whom will they belong?” This is how it is with those who amass wealth for themselves but are not rich towards God. … After saying this he exclaimed, ‘Let those who have ears for listening, listen.’