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title: "December 11, 2024 — Monk-martyr Stephen the New"
description: "Wednesday, December 11, 2024. 28 November (Old Style). Monk-martyr Stephen the New; Martyr Irenarchus. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2024-12-11"
language: "en"
---

Wednesday

# December 11, 2024

28 November (Old Style) · 25th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2024-12-11) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2024-12-11)

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

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## Events of the day

- Monk-martyr Stephen the New; Martyr Irenarchus

  Commemoration

## Fasting

Fast day · Nativity Fast

Nativity Fast, Wednesday and Friday: xerophagy.

- Meat: not allowed
- Dairy & eggs: not allowed
- Fish: not allowed
- Oil: not allowed
- Wine: not allowed
- Xerophagy

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 2:1–12

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  1 Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him, we ask you

  2 not 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.

  3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,

  4 he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.

  5 Don’t you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things?

  6 Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.

  7 For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way.

  8 Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;

  9 even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

  10 and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

  11 Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;

  12 that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

- Gospel

  Luke 20:1–8

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  1 On one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, the priests and scribes came to him with the elders.

  2 They asked him, “Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?”

  3 He answered them, “I also will ask you one question. Tell me:

  4 the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?”

  5 They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why didn’t you believe him?’

  6 But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.”

  7 They answered that they didn’t know where it was from.

  8 Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”

Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, Julian calendar. Text: World English Bible.

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [The Trisagion](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/trisagion)