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title: "December 14, 2028 — Prophet Nahum | Church calendar"
description: "Thursday, December 14, 2028. 1 December (Old Style). Prophet Nahum; Righteous Philaret the Merciful. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2028-12-14"
language: "en"
---

Thursday

# December 14, 2028

1 December (Old Style) · 28th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2028-12-14) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2028-12-14)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2028-12)

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## Events of the day

- Prophet Nahum; Righteous Philaret the Merciful

  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

  Titus 1:5–2:1

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  5 I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you,

  6 if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

  7 For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

  8 but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled,

  9 holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

  10 For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

  11 whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

  12 One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”

  13 This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

  14 not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

  15 To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

  16 They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

  1 But say the things which fit sound doctrine,

- Gospel

  Luke 20:9–18

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  9 He began to tell the people this parable. “A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.

  10 At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty.

  11 He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.

  12 He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him, and threw him out.

  13 The lord of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.’

  14 “But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.’

  15 They threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?

  16 He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard that, they said, “May that never be!”

  17 But he looked at them and said, “Then what is this that is written, ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the chief cornerstone?’

  18 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust.”

Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, Julian calendar. Text: World English Bible.

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Prayer to the Holy Spirit “O Heavenly King”](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/heavenly-king)