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title: "December 3, 2021 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Friday, December 3, 2021. 3 December (Revised Julian). Fast day. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on spas.life."
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2021-12-03"
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Friday

# December 3, 2021

3 December (Revised Julian) · 24th week after Pentecost

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2021-12-03) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2021-12-03)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2021-12)

[← December 2](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2021-12-02) [December 4 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2021-12-04)

## Events of the day

No commemorations in the content package for this day yet

## Fasting

Fast day · Nativity Fast

Nativity Fast, Wednesday and Friday: xerophagy.

- Meat: not allowed
- Dairy & eggs: not allowed
- Fish: not allowed
- Oil: not allowed
- Wine: not allowed
- Xerophagy

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

  1 Thessalonians 5:9–13, 24–28

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  9 For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

  10 who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

  11 Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

  12 But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you,

  13 and to respect and honor them in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

  24 He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.

  25 Brothers, pray for us.

  26 Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss.

  27 I solemnly command you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy brothers.

  28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

- Gospel

  Luke 20:19–26

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  19 The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people—for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.

  20 They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

  21 They asked him, “Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God.

  22 Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”

  23 But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, “Why do you test me?

  24 Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?” They answered, “Caesar’s.”

  25 He said to them, “Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

  26 They weren’t able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer and were silent.

Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, New Calendar (OCA practice). Text: World English Bible.

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Short penitential prayers](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/penitential-short)