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title: "December 15, 2022 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Thursday, December 15, 2022. 15 December (Revised Julian). Fast day. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on…"
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Thursday

# December 15, 2022

15 December (Revised Julian) · 27th week after Pentecost

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

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## Events of the day

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## Fasting

Fast day · Nativity Fast

Nativity Fast, Tuesday and Thursday (Typikon ch. 33): wine and oil, no fish.

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

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 Timothy 6:17–21

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  17 Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

  18 that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share;

  19 laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.

  20 Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,

  21 which some profess, and thus have wandered from the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.

- Gospel

  Mark 9:10–16

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  10 They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the “rising from the dead” meant.

  11 They asked him, saying, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

  12 He said to them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?

  13 But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him.”

  14 Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them, and scribes questioning them.

  15 Immediately all the multitude, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and running to him, greeted him.

  16 He asked the scribes, “What are you asking them?”

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