---
title: "December 17, 2025 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Wednesday, December 17, 2025. 17 December (Revised Julian). Fast day. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on…"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2025-12-17"
language: "en"
---

Wednesday

# December 17, 2025

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

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2025-12-17) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2025-12-17)

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

[← December 16](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2025-12-16) [December 18 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2025-12-18)

## Events of the day

No commemorations in the content package for this day yet

## Fasting

Fast day · Nativity Fast

Nativity Fast, 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

  2 Timothy 4:9–22

  **Show the text**

  9 Be diligent to come to me soon,

  10 for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.

  11 Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service.

  12 But I sent Tychicus to Ephesus.

  13 Bring the cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus when you come, and the books, especially the parchments.

  14 Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds,

  15 of whom you also must beware; for he greatly opposed our words.

  16 At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.

  17 But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

  18 And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

  19 Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the house of Onesiphorus.

  20 Erastus remained at Corinth, but I left Trophimus at Miletus sick.

  21 Be diligent to come before winter. Eubulus salutes you, as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.

  22 The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.

- Gospel

  Mark 8:30–34

  **Show the text**

  30 He commanded them that they should tell no one about him.

  31 He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

  32 He spoke to them openly. Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.

  33 But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men.”

  34 He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [The Trisagion](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/trisagion)