December 5, 2027

Events of the day

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Fasting

Fast day · Nativity Fast

Nativity Fast, Saturday and Sunday: fish is allowed.

• Meat: not allowed
• Dairy & eggs: not allowed
• Fish: 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

• Vespers

  Wisdom of Solomon 3:1–9

• Vespers

  Wisdom of Solomon 5:15–6:3

• Vespers

  Wisdom of Solomon 4:7–15

• 2nd Matins Gospel

  Mark 16:1–8

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  ¹When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.

  ²Very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.

  ³They were saying among themselves, “Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?”

  ⁴for it was very big. Looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back.

  ⁵Entering into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were amazed.

  ⁶He said to them, “Don’t be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen. He is not here. Behold, the place where they laid him!

  ⁷But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he said to you.’ ”

  ⁸They went out, and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come on them. They said nothing to anyone; for they were afraid.

• Epistle

  Ephesians 2:14–22

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  ¹⁴For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of separation,

  ¹⁵having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace,

  ¹⁶and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility through it.

  ¹⁷He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.

  ¹⁸For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

  ¹⁹So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God,

  ²⁰being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

  ²¹in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;

  ²²in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

• Epistle · St Sabbas

  Galatians 5:22–6:2

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  ²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

  ²³gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

  ²⁴Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

  ²⁵If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.

  ²⁶Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

  ¹Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

  ²Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

• Gospel

  Luke 17:12–19

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  ¹²As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance.

  ¹³They lifted up their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”

  ¹⁴When he saw them, he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” As they went, they were cleansed.

  ¹⁵One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice.

  ¹⁶He fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan.

  ¹⁷Jesus answered, “Weren’t the ten cleansed? But where are the nine?

  ¹⁸Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this foreigner?”

  ¹⁹Then he said to him, “Get up, and go your way. Your faith has healed you.”

• Gospel · St Sabas

  Matthew 11:27–30

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  ²⁷All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.

  ²⁸“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

  ²⁹Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

  ³⁰For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Symbol of Faith (Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed)