December 31, 2035

Events of the day

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• Leave-taking of the feast: Nativity of our Lord, God and Saviour Jesus Christ

Fasting

No fast

Christmastide (25 Dec – 4 Jan Old Style) is fast-free: no fasting.

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

  ⁶but 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Gospel

  Mark 12:13–17

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  ¹³They sent some of the Pharisees and the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.

  ¹⁴When they had come, they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don’t defer to anyone; for you aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?

  ¹⁵Shall we give, or shall we not give?” But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, “Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius, that I may see it.”

  ¹⁶They brought it. He said to them, “Whose is this image and inscription?” They said to him, “Caesar’s.”

  ¹⁷Jesus answered them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” They marveled greatly at him.

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