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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Saints of the day

Sfântul Ierarh Grigorie Taumaturgul, Episcopul Neocezareei Pontului
Sfântul Cuvios Lazăr Zugravul
Sfântul Ierarh Ghenadie, patriarhul Constantinopolului
Sfântul Cuvios Zaharia

Epistle and Gospel of the day

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From the Synaxarion

Sfântul Ierarh Grigorie Taumaturgul, Episcopul Neocezareei Pontului
Sfântul Cuvios Lazăr Zugravul Read the life on doxologia.ro (opens in a new tab)
Sfântul Ierarh Ghenadie, patriarhul Constantinopolului
Sfântul Cuvios Zaharia

Fasting today

Oil and wine allowed

Lenten food cooked with oil; a little wine is allowed. No fish.

Nativity Fast · Tuesdays and Thursdays of the fast

No weddings

No weddings

The Mystery of Marriage is not celebrated on fasting days (Wednesdays, Fridays and the four fasts), from Meatfare Sunday to Thomas Sunday, between Christmas and Theophany, on the Beheading of St. John the Baptist and on the eve and the day of the Great Feasts.

Source: Calendar of the Romanian Patriarchate, “No weddings” (opens in a new tab)

Recipes for this day

Name days

There are no name days in the calendar on this day.

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