Monday, December 16, 1996

Saints of the day

Sfânta Teofana Împărăteasa
Sfântul Proroc Agheu
Sfântul Mucenic Marin

Epistle and Gospel of the day

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Troparion of the day

Kontakion, tone 1 · Sfântul Proroc Agheu

Cela ce ca un Dumnezeu toate le vede și le știe, luminându-ți ochiul cel curat al sufletului, prea lăudate Prooroace, te-ai arătat lumii povățuitor. Pentru aceasta săvârșind sfântă pomenirea ta, te aducem pre tine rugător către Dumnezeu, Agghee.

Mineiul lunei Decemvrie, ediția a 3-a (1927), p. 238

From the Synaxarion

Fasting today

Fast day

No meat, dairy, eggs or fish.

Nativity Fast · fast day

No weddings

No weddings

The Mystery of Marriage is not celebrated on fasting days (Wednesdays, Fridays and the four fasts), from Meatfare Sunday to Thomas Sunday, between Christmas and Theophany, on the Beheading of St. John the Baptist and on the eve and the day of the Great Feasts.

Source: Calendar of the Romanian Patriarchate, “No weddings” (opens in a new tab)

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