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title: "December 16, 2025 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Tuesday, December 16, 2025. 16 December (Revised Julian). Fast day. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on…"
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Tuesday

# December 16, 2025

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

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2025-12-16) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2025-12-16)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2025-12)

[← December 15](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2025-12-15) [December 17 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2025-12-17)

## 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 Timothy 3:16–4:4

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  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 8:22–26

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  22 He came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to him, and begged him to touch him.

  23 He took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the village. When he had spat on his eyes, and laid his hands on him, he asked him if he saw anything.

  24 He looked up, and said, “I see men; for I see them like trees walking.”

  25 Then again he laid his hands on his eyes. He looked intently, and was restored, and saw everyone clearly.

  26 He sent him away to his house, saying, “Don’t enter into the village, nor tell anyone in the village.”

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)