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title: "December 7, 2027 — Great-martyr Catherine | Church calendar"
description: "Tuesday, December 7, 2027. 24 November (Old Style). Great-martyr Catherine; Great-martyr Mercurius. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2027-12-07"
language: "en"
---

Tuesday

# December 7, 2027

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

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2027-12-07) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2027-12-07)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2027-12)

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## Events of the day

- Great-martyr Catherine; Great-martyr Mercurius

  Polyeleos rank

- Afterfeast: 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 Thessalonians 1:10–2:2

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  10 when he comes in that day to be glorified in his saints and to be admired among all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.

  11 To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,

  12 that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

  1 Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him, we ask you

  2 not to be quickly shaken in your mind, and not be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as if from us, saying that the day of Christ has already come.

- 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)