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Wednesday, December 9, 2026

Wednesday of the 28th week after Pentecost · Tone 2

Fasting

Nativity Fast

Wine
Oil
Fish
Dairy
Meat
Day’s prayersAll prayers
Morning PrayerOpening · Psalm 51 · a morning prayerEvening PrayerOpening · an evening prayer · examination
Today’s readings

Appointed for this day

Epistle · Of the day

2 Timothy 4:9–22

Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me: For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.…

Epistle · Of the feast

Galatians 4:22–31

For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.…

Gospel · Of the day

Luke 21:5–7, 10–11, 20–24

And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be…

Gospel · Of the feast

Luke 8:16–21

No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light. For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest;…

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