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title: "December 8, 2026 — Hieromartyrs Clement, Pope of Rome, and Peter…"
description: "Tuesday, December 8, 2026. 25 November (Old Style). Hieromartyrs Clement, Pope of Rome, and Peter, Archbishop of Alexandria. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-12-08"
language: "en"
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Tuesday

# December 8, 2026

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

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-12-08) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2026-12-08)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-12)

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## Events of the day

- Hieromartyrs Clement, Pope of Rome, and Peter, Archbishop of Alexandria

  Commemoration

- Leave-taking of the feast: Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple

## 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

  2 Timothy 3:16–4:4

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  16 Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

  17 that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

  1 I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:

  2 preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

  3 For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts,

  4 and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.

- Epistle · Theotokos

  Hebrews 9:1–7

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  1 Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service and an earthly sanctuary.

  2 For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lamp stand, the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place.

  3 After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,

  4 having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;

  5 and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can’t speak now in detail.

  6 Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services,

  7 but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.

- Gospel

  Luke 17:26–37

- Gospel · Theotokos

  Luke 10:38–42, 11:27–28

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)