December 8, 2030

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

• 3rd Matins Gospel

  Mark 16:9–20

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  ⁹Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.

  ¹⁰She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept.

  ¹¹When they heard that he was alive, and had been seen by her, they disbelieved.

  ¹²After these things he was revealed in another form to two of them, as they walked, on their way into the country.

  ¹³They went away and told it to the rest. They didn’t believe them, either.

  ¹⁴Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn’t believe those who had seen him after he had risen.

  ¹⁵He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

  ¹⁶He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

  ¹⁷These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages;

  ¹⁸they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

  ¹⁹So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

  ²⁰They went out, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.

• Epistle

  Ephesians 4:1–6

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  ¹I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

  ²with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

  ³being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

  ⁴There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling,

  ⁵one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

  ⁶one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all, and in us all.

• 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.”

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)