Saturday, December 23, 2028

Saturday of the 29th week after Pentecost · Tone 3

Fasting

Wine and Oil are Allowed

Nativity Fast

Wine
Oil
Fish
Dairy
Meat
Today’s readings

Appointed for this day

Epistle · Of the day

Ephesians 2:11–13

Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from…

Epistle · Of the feast

Galatians 3:8–12

And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful…

Gospel · Of the day

Luke 16:10–15

He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the…

Gospel · Of the feast

Luke 13:18–29

Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air…

Whom we remember
Saturday before Nativity
Holy Ten Martyrs of Crete
Our Venerable Father Paul, Archbishop of Neocaesarea (4th c.)
Our Holy Father Nahum of Ochrid, Wonderworker and Enlightener of the Slavs (ca. 900)
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