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Friday

# December 12, 2031

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

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2031-12-12) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2031-12-12)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2031-12)

[← December 11](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2031-12-11) [December 13 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2031-12-13)

## Events of the day

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## 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

  Titus 1:15–2:10

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  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,

  2 that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:

  3 and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good,

  4 that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children,

  5 to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

  6 Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded.

  7 In all things be showing yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, be showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

  8 and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

  9 Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters and to be well-pleasing in all things, not contradicting,

  10 not stealing, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.

- Gospel

  Luke 21:37–22:8

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  37 Every day Jesus was teaching in the temple, and every night he would go out and spend the night on the mountain that is called Olivet.

  38 All the people came early in the morning to him in the temple to hear him.

  1 Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching.

  2 The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.

  3 Satan entered into Judas, who was also called Iscariot, who was counted with the twelve.

  4 He went away, and talked with the chief priests and captains about how he might deliver him to them.

  5 They were glad, and agreed to give him money.

  6 He consented, and sought an opportunity to deliver him to them in the absence of the multitude.

  7 The day of unleavened bread came, on which the Passover must be sacrificed.

  8 Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat.”

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Short penitential prayers](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/penitential-short)