Tuesday, December 28, 2027
The Orthodox liturgical day, its saint, its tone, and its fast.
On Tuesday, December 28, 2027, Orthodox Christians on the New Calendar remember the Twenty Thousand Martyrs of Nicomedia and St Simon the Outpourer of Myrrh. It is a fast-free day. On the Old Calendar the same day remembers St Eleutherius of Illyria and St Stephen of Surozh. It is a fast day, with wine and oil.
New Calendar
Commemorated today
This day is a fast-free day, all foods are permitted.
Old Calendar
Commemorated today
This day is a fast day, but wine and oil are permitted, no meat, dairy, or fish.
The saints of the day
On the New Calendar
- Tone 2 of the Octoechos
- 27th Week after Pentecost
Readings, New Calendar
Epistle2 Timothy 3.16-4.4
3:16Every 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. 4:1I 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.
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GospelMark 11.11-23
11:11Jesus entered into the temple in Jerusalem. When he had looked around at everything, it being now evening, he went out to Bethany with the twelve. 12The next day, when they had come out from Bethany, he was hungry. 13Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. 14Jesus told it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again!” and his disciples heard it.
15They came to Jerusalem, and Jesus entered into the temple and began to throw out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables and the seats of those who sold the doves. 16He would not allow anyone to carry a container through the temple. 17He taught, saying to them, “Isn’t it written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers!” 18The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.
19When evening came, he went out of the city. 20As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away from the roots. 21Peter, remembering, said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree which you cursed has withered away.” 22Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God. 23For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening, he shall have whatever he says.
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The order and appointment of the readings follow the Orthodox lectionary. Come to the Liturgy to hear them proclaimed.
Readings, Old Calendar
Epistle2 Timothy 3.16-4.4
3:16Every 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. 4:1I 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.
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GospelMark 8.22-26
8:22He 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, but I see them like walking trees.” 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.”
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The order and appointment of the readings follow the Orthodox lectionary. Come to the Liturgy to hear them proclaimed.
Questions
What does the Orthodox Church remember on Tuesday, December 28, 2027?
- On the New Calendar, the Twenty Thousand Martyrs of Nicomedia and St Simon the Outpourer of Myrrh.
- On the Old Calendar, St Eleutherius of Illyria and St Stephen of Surozh.
Is Tuesday, December 28, 2027 a fast day in the Orthodox Church?
- On the New Calendar it is a fast-free day.
- On the Old Calendar it is a fast day, with wine and oil.
What are the Orthodox readings for Tuesday, December 28, 2027?
On the New Calendar:
At the Liturgy, the Epistle is 2 Timothy 3.16-4.4 and the Gospel is Mark 11.11-23.
On the Old Calendar:
At the Liturgy, the Epistle is 2 Timothy 3.16-4.4 and the Gospel is Mark 8.22-26.
