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title: "December 2, 2025 — Prophet Obadiah | Church calendar"
description: "Tuesday, December 2, 2025. 19 November (Old Style). Prophet Obadiah; Martyr Barlaam; Sts Barlaam and Ioasaph, Prince of India. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2025-12-02"
language: "en"
---

Tuesday

# December 2, 2025

19 November (Old Style) · 26th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2025-12-02) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2025-12-02)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2025-12)

[← December 1](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2025-12-01) [December 3 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2025-12-03)

## Events of the day

- Prophet Obadiah; Martyr Barlaam; Sts Barlaam and Ioasaph, Prince of India

  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 1:8–14

  **Show the text**

  8 But we know that the law is good, if a person uses it lawfully,

  9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

  10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,

  11 according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

  12 I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;

  13 although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

  14 The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

- Gospel

  Luke 17:26–37

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)