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title: "December 23, 2034 — Martyrs Menas, Hermogenes and Eugraphus"
description: "Saturday, December 23, 2034. 10 December (Old Style). Martyrs Menas, Hermogenes and Eugraphus. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2034-12-23"
language: "en"
---

Saturday

# December 23, 2034

10 December (Old Style) · 30th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2034-12-23) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2034-12-23)

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

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## Events of the day

- Martyrs Menas, Hermogenes and Eugraphus

  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

  Ephesians 5:1–8

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  1 Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

  2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

  3 But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

  4 nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

  5 Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

  6 Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

  7 Therefore don’t be partakers with them.

  8 For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

- Gospel

  Luke 13:18–29

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  18 He said, “What is God’s Kingdom like? To what shall I compare it?

  19 It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his own garden. It grew and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky live in its branches.”

  20 Again he said, “To what shall I compare God’s Kingdom?

  21 It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened.”

  22 He went on his way through cities and villages, teaching, and traveling on to Jerusalem.

  23 One said to him, “Lord, are they few who are saved?” He said to them,

  24 “Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

  25 When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’

  26 Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’

  27 He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’

  28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God’s Kingdom, and yourselves being thrown outside.

  29 They will come from the east, west, north, and south, and will sit down in God’s Kingdom.

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Prayer for the departed](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/departed)