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title: "December 3, 2024 — St Gregory the Decapolite"
description: "Tuesday, December 3, 2024. 20 November (Old Style). St Gregory the Decapolite; St Proclus, Patriarch of Constantinople. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2024-12-03"
language: "en"
---

Tuesday

# December 3, 2024

20 November (Old Style) · 24th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2024-12-03) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2024-12-03)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2024-12)

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## Events of the day

- St Gregory the Decapolite; St Proclus, Patriarch of Constantinople

  Commemoration

- Forefeast: Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple

## 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 Thessalonians 3:9–13

  **Show the text**

  9 For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,

  10 night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

  11 Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.

  12 May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

  13 to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

- Gospel

  Luke 17:26–37

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)