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title: "December 7, 2034 — Great-martyr Catherine | Church calendar"
description: "Thursday, December 7, 2034. 24 November (Old Style). Great-martyr Catherine; Great-martyr Mercurius. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2034-12-07"
language: "en"
---

Thursday

# December 7, 2034

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

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2034-12-07) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2034-12-07)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2034-12)

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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

  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 18:31–34

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  31 He took the twelve aside, and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.

  32 For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on.

  33 They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise again.”

  34 They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn’t understand the things that were said.

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)