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title: "December 15, 2025 (New Style) | Church calendar"
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Monday

# December 15, 2025

15 December (Revised Julian) · 28th 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, Monday: 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 2:20–26

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  20 Now in a large house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of clay. Some are for honor, and some for dishonor.

  21 If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.

  22 Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

  23 But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.

  24 The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

  25 in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

  26 and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

- Gospel

  Mark 8:11–21

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  11 The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, and testing him.

  12 He sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, “Why does this generation seek a sign? Most certainly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation.”

  13 He left them, and again entering into the boat, departed to the other side.

  14 They forgot to take bread; and they didn’t have more than one loaf in the boat with them.

  15 He warned them, saying, “Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”

  16 They reasoned with one another, saying, “It’s because we have no bread.”

  17 Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, “Why do you reason that it’s because you have no bread? Don’t you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened?

  18 Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember?

  19 When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They told him, “Twelve.”

  20 “When the seven loaves fed the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They told him, “Seven.”

  21 He asked them, “Don’t you understand yet?”

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)