Tuesday 2nd December 2025
Nativity Fast: fish, wine and oil allowed
Today we commemorate:
Prophet Avakkum (Habakkuk) (7th C. BC). Holy Martyrs Abibus the New and Myrope of Chios (251). St. Ioannicius of Devich, monk (1430). St. Cyril of Phileus (1110). SS John, Heraclemon, Andrew, and Theophilus of Egypt (4th C). St. Stephen-Urosh V, King of Serbia (1371) and St. Helen of Serbia. St. Ise (Jesse), bishop of Tsilkani in Georgia (6th C).
British Isles and Ireland:
St. Trumwine of Abercorn, (late 7th C).
1 Timothy 1:8-14; Luke 19:45-48
Readings in bold type are those appointed by the Typikon for use at the Liturgy
1 Timothy 1:8-14
Timothy, my son, we know that the law is good if it is used legitimately. We understand that the law is not made for the righteous, but for the lawless and disobedient, the irreverent and sinners, the unholy and profane, those who kill father or mother, murderers, fornicators, sodomites, slave-traders, liars, perjurers, and anything else that is contrary to the wholesome doctrine that accords with the glorious Gospel of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted. And I give thanks to him who empowered me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he considered me faithful and appointed to the ministry a former blasphemer and persecutor and bully. I received mercy because, being ignorant, I acted without faith, but the grace of our Lord overflowed with the faith and love that is in Christ Jesus.
Luke 19:45-48
At that time Jesus entered the temple and began to drive out those in it who were buying and selling. He told them, ‘It is written that my house is a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.’ And he would teach daily in the temple while the chief priests and the scribes and the leaders of the people sought to destroy him, but they found there was nothing that they could do because all the people listening to him were hanging on every word.