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title: "December 9, 2025 — St Alypius the Stylite | Church calendar"
description: "Tuesday, December 9, 2025. 26 November (Old Style). St Alypius the Stylite; St Innocent of Irkutsk; Dedication of the Church of Great-martyr George in Kiev…"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2025-12-09"
language: "en"
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Tuesday

# December 9, 2025

26 November (Old Style) · 27th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2025-12-09) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2025-12-09)

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

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## Events of the day

- St Alypius the Stylite; St Innocent of Irkutsk; Dedication of the Church of Great-martyr George in Kiev

  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

  Luke 19:45–48

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  45 He entered into the temple, and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it,

  46 saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of robbers’!”

  47 He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests, the scribes, and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.

  48 They 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.

## Saints and icons

- [Holy Great-martyr George the Trophy-bearer](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/history/saints/george)
- Prayer of the day: [The Jesus Prayer](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/jesus-prayer)