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title: "December 23, 2024 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Monday, December 23, 2024. 23 December (Revised Julian). Fast day. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on…"
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Monday

# December 23, 2024

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

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2024-12-23) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2024-12-23)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2024-12)

[← December 22](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2024-12-22) [December 24 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2024-12-24)

## 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), Monday, 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 Timothy 5:1–10

- Gospel

  Mark 10:46–52

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  46 They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.

  47 When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out, and say, “Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!”

  48 Many rebuked him, that he should be quiet, but he cried out much more, “You son of David, have mercy on me!”

  49 Jesus stood still, and said, “Call him.” They called the blind man, saying to him, “Cheer up! Get up. He is calling you!”

  50 He, casting away his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus.

  51 Jesus asked him, “What do you want me to do for you?” The blind man said to him, “Rabboni, that I may see again.”

  52 Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your faith has made you well.” Immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus on the way.

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Morning prayer of St Macarius the Great](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/morning-macarius)