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title: "December 21, 2021 — St Patapius | Church calendar"
description: "Tuesday, December 21, 2021. 8 December (Old Style). St Patapius. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2021-12-21"
language: "en"
---

Tuesday

# December 21, 2021

8 December (Old Style) · 27th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2021-12-21) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2021-12-21)

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

[← December 20](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2021-12-20) [December 22 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2021-12-22)

## Events of the day

- St Patapius

  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 5:11–21

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  11 But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,

  12 having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.

  13 Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

  14 I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

  15 For already some have turned away after Satan.

  16 If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don’t let the assembly be burdened, that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.

  17 Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

  18 For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.” And, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”

  19 Don’t receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word of two or three witnesses.

  20 Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

  21 I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

- Gospel

  Luke 21:12–19

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  12 But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.

  13 It will turn out as a testimony for you.

  14 Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand how to answer,

  15 for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

  16 You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.

  17 You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake.

  18 And not a hair of your head will perish.

  19 “By your endurance you will win your lives.

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)