---
title: "December 20, 2022 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Tuesday, December 20, 2022. 20 December (Revised Julian). Fast day. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on…"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2022-12-20"
language: "en"
---

Tuesday

# December 20, 2022

20 December (Revised Julian) · 28th week after Pentecost

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2022-12-20) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2022-12-20)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2022-12)

[← December 19](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2022-12-19) [December 21 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2022-12-21)

## Events of the day

No commemorations in the content package for this day yet

- Forefeast: Nativity of our Lord, God and Saviour Jesus Christ

## Fasting

Fast day · Nativity Fast

Nativity Fast (from 20 Dec Old Style), Tuesday and Thursday: cooked food without oil.

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

  2 Timothy 3:16–4:4

  **Show the text**

  16 Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

  17 that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

  1 I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:

  2 preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

  3 For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts,

  4 and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.

- Gospel

  Mark 10:2–12

  **Show the text**

  2 Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

  3 He answered, “What did Moses command you?”

  4 They said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.”

  5 But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.

  6 But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.

  7 For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,

  8 and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

  9 What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

  10 In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter.

  11 He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.

  12 If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery.”

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [The Jesus Prayer](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/jesus-prayer)