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Thursday

# December 19, 2024

19 December (Revised Julian) · 26th 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 3:1–13

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  1 This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.

  2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

  3 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

  4 one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

  5 (but how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule one’s own house take care of God’s assembly?)

  6 not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

  7 Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

  8 Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,

  9 holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

  10 Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.

  11 Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.

  12 Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

  13 For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

- Gospel

  Mark 10:17–27

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  17 As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?”

  18 Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except one—God.

  19 You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’ ”

  20 He said to him, “Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth.”

  21 Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”

  22 But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions.

  23 Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, “How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!”

  24 The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, “Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!

  25 It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”

  26 They were exceedingly astonished, saying to him, “Then who can be saved?”

  27 Jesus, looking at them, said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God.”

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)