December 14, 2027

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 1:8–14

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  ⁸But we know that the law is good, if a person uses it lawfully,

  ⁹as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

  ¹⁰for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,

  ¹¹according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

  ¹²I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;

  ¹³although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

  ¹⁴The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

• 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, New Calendar (OCA practice). Text: World English Bible.

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Jesus Prayer