December 12, 2024

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

  2 Thessalonians 2:13–3:5

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  ¹³But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

  ¹⁴to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  ¹⁵So then, brothers, stand firm and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word or by letter.

  ¹⁶Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

  ¹⁷comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.

  ¹Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you,

  ²and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for not all have faith.

  ³But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.

  ⁴We have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you both do and will do the things we command.

  ⁵May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love, and into the perseverance of Christ.

• Gospel

  Mark 9:10–16

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

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

  ¹²He 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?

  ¹³But 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.”

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

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

  ¹⁶He 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”