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Thursday

# December 18, 2025

18 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, 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

  Titus 1:5–2:1

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  5 I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you,

  6 if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

  7 For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

  8 but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled,

  9 holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

  10 For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

  11 whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

  12 One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”

  13 This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

  14 not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

  15 To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

  16 They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

  1 But say the things which fit sound doctrine,

- Gospel

  Mark 9:10–16

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  10 They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the “rising from the dead” meant.

  11 They asked him, saying, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

  12 He said to them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?

  13 But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him.”

  14 Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them, and scribes questioning them.

  15 Immediately all the multitude, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and running to him, greeted him.

  16 He asked the scribes, “What are you asking them?”

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)