December 28, 2027

Events of the day

• Hieromartyr Eleutherius; St Paul of Latros; St Stephen of Surozh

  Commemoration

Fasting

Fast day · Nativity Fast

Nativity Fast, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday: fish is allowed.

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

By the Typikon (ch. 33) Tuesday and Thursday of the Apostles' and Nativity Fasts call for oil and wine only, fish only for a saint with a polyeleos; lay practice per the ROC calendar allows fish.

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

  2 Timothy 3:16–4:4

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  ¹⁶Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

  ¹⁷that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

  ¹I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:

  ²preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

  ³For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts,

  ⁴and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.

• Gospel

  Mark 8:22–26

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  ²²He came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to him, and begged him to touch him.

  ²³He took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the village. When he had spat on his eyes, and laid his hands on him, he asked him if he saw anything.

  ²⁴He looked up, and said, “I see men; for I see them like trees walking.”

  ²⁵Then again he laid his hands on his eyes. He looked intently, and was restored, and saw everyone clearly.

  ²⁶He sent him away to his house, saying, “Don’t enter into the village, nor tell anyone in the village.”

Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, Julian calendar. Text: World English Bible.

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Jesus Prayer