--- title: "December 9, 2024 — St Alypius the Stylite | Church calendar" description: "Monday, December 9, 2024. 26 November (Old Style). St Alypius the Stylite; St Innocent of Irkutsk; Dedication of the Church of Great-martyr George in Kiev…" url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2024-12-09" language: "en" --- Monday # December 9, 2024 26 November (Old Style) · 25th week after Pentecost Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar) [Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2024-12-09) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2024-12-09) [Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2024-12) [← December 8](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2024-12-08) [December 10 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2024-12-10) ## Events of the day - St Alypius the Stylite; St Innocent of Irkutsk; Dedication of the Church of Great-martyr George in Kiev Commemoration ## Fasting Fast day · Nativity Fast Nativity Fast, Monday: cooked food without oil. - Meat: not allowed - Dairy & eggs: not allowed - Fish: not allowed - Oil: not allowed - Wine: not allowed 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 Thessalonians 1:1–10 **Show the text** 1 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds, 4 so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure. 5 This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer. 6 Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you, 7 and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, 8 punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus, 9 who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might, 10 when he comes in that day to be glorified in his saints and to be admired among all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed. - Gospel Luke 19:37–44 **Show the text** 37 As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen, 38 saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!” 39 Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!” 40 He answered them, “I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out.” 41 When he came near, he saw the city and wept over it, 42 saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side, 44 and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.” Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, Julian calendar. Text: World English Bible. ## Saints and icons - [Holy Great-martyr George the Trophy-bearer](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/history/saints/george) - Prayer of the day: [Morning prayer of St Macarius the Great](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/morning-macarius)