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Monday

# December 15, 2031

15 December (Revised Julian) · 29th 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, Monday: cooked food without oil.

- Meat: not allowed
- Dairy & eggs: not allowed
- Fish: not allowed
- Oil: not allowed
- Wine: not 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

  Hebrews 3:5–11, 17–19

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  5 Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,

  6 but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

  7 Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

  8 don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

  9 where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my deeds for forty years.

  10 Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways.’

  11 As I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’ ”

  17 With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

  18 To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

  19 We see that they weren’t able to enter in because of unbelief.

- Gospel

  Mark 8:11–21

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  11 The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, and testing him.

  12 He sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, “Why does this generation seek a sign? Most certainly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation.”

  13 He left them, and again entering into the boat, departed to the other side.

  14 They forgot to take bread; and they didn’t have more than one loaf in the boat with them.

  15 He warned them, saying, “Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”

  16 They reasoned with one another, saying, “It’s because we have no bread.”

  17 Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, “Why do you reason that it’s because you have no bread? Don’t you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened?

  18 Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember?

  19 When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They told him, “Twelve.”

  20 “When the seven loaves fed the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They told him, “Seven.”

  21 He asked them, “Don’t you understand yet?”

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Morning prayer of St Macarius the Great](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/morning-macarius)