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Thursday, December 17, 2026

Thursday of the 29th week after Pentecost · Tone 3

Fasting

Wine and Oil are Allowed

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

Hebrews 7:1–6

For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of…

Gospel

Mark 9:10–16

And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean. And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come?…

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