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title: "December 21, 2024 — St Patapius | Church calendar"
description: "Saturday, December 21, 2024. 8 December (Old Style). St Patapius. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2024-12-21"
language: "en"
---

Saturday

# December 21, 2024

8 December (Old Style) · 26th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2024-12-21) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2024-12-21)

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

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## 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

  Galatians 3:8–12

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  8 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”

  9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

  10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

  11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”

  12 The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.”

- Gospel

  Luke 13:18–29

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  18 He said, “What is God’s Kingdom like? To what shall I compare it?

  19 It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his own garden. It grew and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky live in its branches.”

  20 Again he said, “To what shall I compare God’s Kingdom?

  21 It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened.”

  22 He went on his way through cities and villages, teaching, and traveling on to Jerusalem.

  23 One said to him, “Lord, are they few who are saved?” He said to them,

  24 “Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

  25 When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’

  26 Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’

  27 He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’

  28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God’s Kingdom, and yourselves being thrown outside.

  29 They will come from the east, west, north, and south, and will sit down in God’s Kingdom.

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Prayer for the departed](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/departed)