---
title: "December 15, 2020 — Prophet Habakkuk | Church calendar"
description: "Tuesday, December 15, 2020. 2 December (Old Style). Prophet Habakkuk. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2020-12-15"
language: "en"
---

Tuesday

# December 15, 2020

2 December (Old Style) · 28th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2020-12-15) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-12-15)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2020-12)

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## Events of the day

- Prophet Habakkuk

  Commemoration

## Fasting

Fast day · Nativity Fast

Nativity Fast, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday: fish is allowed.

- Meat: not allowed
- Dairy & eggs: not allowed
- Fish: allowed
- Oil: allowed
- Wine: allowed

By the Typikon (ch. 33) Tuesday and Thursday of the Apostles' and Nativity Fasts call for oil and wine only, fish only for a saint with a polyeleos; lay practice per the ROC calendar allows fish.

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

  2 Timothy 3:16–4:4

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  16 Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

  17 that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

  1 I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:

  2 preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

  3 For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts,

  4 and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.

- Gospel

  Luke 19:45–48

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  45 He entered into the temple, and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it,

  46 saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of robbers’!”

  47 He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests, the scribes, and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.

  48 They couldn’t find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said.

Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, Julian calendar. Text: World English Bible.

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [The Jesus Prayer](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/jesus-prayer)