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title: "December 14, 2021 — Prophet Nahum | Church calendar"
description: "Tuesday, December 14, 2021. 1 December (Old Style). Prophet Nahum; Righteous Philaret the Merciful. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2021-12-14"
language: "en"
---

Tuesday

# December 14, 2021

1 December (Old Style) · 26th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2021-12-14) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2021-12-14)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2021-12)

[← December 13](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2021-12-13) [December 15 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2021-12-15)

## Events of the day

- Prophet Nahum; Righteous Philaret the Merciful

  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

  1 Timothy 1:8–14

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  8 But we know that the law is good, if a person uses it lawfully,

  9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

  10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,

  11 according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

  12 I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;

  13 although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

  14 The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

- 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)