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title: "December 8, 2033 (New Style) | Church calendar"
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Thursday

# December 8, 2033

8 December (Revised Julian) · 26th 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

  1 Timothy 3:1–13

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  1 This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.

  2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

  3 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

  4 one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

  5 (but how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule one’s own house take care of God’s assembly?)

  6 not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

  7 Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

  8 Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,

  9 holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

  10 Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.

  11 Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.

  12 Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

  13 For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

- Gospel

  Luke 21:28–33

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  28 But when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near.”

  29 He told them a parable. “See the fig tree and all the trees.

  30 When they are already budding, you see it and know by your own selves that the summer is already near.

  31 Even so you also, when you see these things happening, know that God’s Kingdom is near.

  32 Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all things are accomplished.

  33 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.

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)