Tuesday
December 10, 2024
27 November (Old Style) · 25th week after Pentecost
Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)
Events of the day
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Icon of the Theotokos “of the Sign” (Novgorod)
Polyeleos rank
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Great-martyr James the Persian
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
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Epistle
2 Thessalonians 1:10–2:2
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10when 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.
11To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,
12that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him, we ask you
2not to be quickly shaken in your mind, and not be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as if from us, saying that the day of Christ has already come.
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Gospel
Luke 19:45–48
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45He entered into the temple, and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it,
46saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of robbers’!”
47He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests, the scribes, and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.
48They 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.