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title: "December 24, 2024 — St Daniel the Stylite | Church calendar"
description: "Tuesday, December 24, 2024. 11 December (Old Style). St Daniel the Stylite. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2024-12-24"
language: "en"
---

Tuesday

# December 24, 2024

11 December (Old Style) · 27th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2024-12-24) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2024-12-24)

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

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## Events of the day

- St Daniel the Stylite

  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

  1 Timothy 5:11–21

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  11 But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,

  12 having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.

  13 Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

  14 I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

  15 For already some have turned away after Satan.

  16 If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don’t let the assembly be burdened, that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.

  17 Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

  18 For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.” And, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”

  19 Don’t receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word of two or three witnesses.

  20 Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

  21 I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

- Gospel

  Mark 8:22–26

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  22 He came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to him, and begged him to touch him.

  23 He took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the village. When he had spat on his eyes, and laid his hands on him, he asked him if he saw anything.

  24 He looked up, and said, “I see men; for I see them like trees walking.”

  25 Then again he laid his hands on his eyes. He looked intently, and was restored, and saw everyone clearly.

  26 He sent him away to his house, saying, “Don’t enter into the village, nor tell anyone in the village.”

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)