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Mount Athos Calendar

Time in Athos

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30th Week after Pentecost.

Old Style 16 Dec 2025 Julian Calendar

Monday

New Style 29 Dec 2025 Gregorian Calendar

Nativity Fast.
Monastic rule: hot food without oil.

Heb..8:7-13 ✥ Mark.9:42-10:1

Feasts

Feast of the Saint

Feast Day of the Blessed Empress Theophania of Byzantium

Feast of the Saint

Feast Day of Saint Sophia of Suzdal (Solomonia Saburova)

Venerated Saints

Prophet Haggai (Aggeus)

Saint Theophanó the Wonderworker, wife of Emperor Leo the Wise

Martyr Marinus of Rome

Venerable Sophia (in the world Great Princess Solomonia Yurievna) of Suzdal, the Wonderworker

Presbyter Hieromartyr

Vladimir Alekseev, presbyter

Presbyter Hieromartyr

Pavel Anoshkin, presbyter

Deacon Hieromartyr

Gregory Smirnov, deacon

Bishop Hieromartyr

Arkady (Ostalsky) of Bezhetsa

Presbyter Hieromartyr

Ilya Cheredayev, presbyter

Presbyter Hieromartyr

Pavel Favoritov, presbyter

Presbyter Hieromartyr

Theodosius Boldyrev, presbyter

Presbyter Hieromartyr

Vladimir Damascene, presbyter

Presbyter Hieromartyr

Alexander Kolokolov, presbyter

Presbyter Hieromartyr

Peter Zinoviev, presbyter

Hieromonk Venerable Martyr

Macarius (Smirnov), hieromonk

Hebrews

8:7 For* if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

8:8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

8:9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

8:11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

8:13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

Gospel of Mark

9:42 And* whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.

9:43 And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:

9:44 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

9:45 And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:

9:46 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

9:47 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:

9:48 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

9:49 For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.

9:50 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.

10:1 And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judaea by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again.

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