Eastern Catholic Daily Readings

Friday, December 13: Ephesians 6:10-17. Luke 21:12-19. Holy Martyrs Eustratios, Auxentius, Eugenius, Mardarius and Orestes (284-305). Holy Martyr Lucia, the Virgin (284-305). Polyeleos Feast. Nativity Fast. Abstention from meat and foods that contain meat.

Thursday, December 12: Hebrews 10:35-11:7. Mark 9:10-16. Our Venerable Father Spiridon the Wonderworker, Bishop of Tremithus (337-61). Nativity Fast.

Wednesday, December 11: Hebrews 10:1-18. Mark 8:30-34. Venerable Father Daniel the Stylite (493). Nativity Fast. Abstention from meat and foods that contain meat.

Tuesday, December 10: Hebrews 9:8-10,15-23. Mark 8:22-26. Holy Martyrs Menas, Hermogenes and Eugraphus. Nativity Fast.

Monday, December 9: Galatians 4:22-31. Luke 8:16-21. Conception of Saint Anna when she conceived the Most Holy Mother of God. All-Night Vigil Feast. Nativity Fast.

Sunday, December 8: Colossians 1:12-18. Luke 17:12-19 Twenty-ninth Sunday after Pentecost, Octoechos Tone 4. Our Venerable Father Patapius.

Saturday, December 7: Ephesians 2:11-13. Luke 13:18-29. Our Holy Father Ambrose, Bishop of Milan (397). Nativity Fast.

Friday, December 6: Hebrews 13:17-21. Luke 6:17-23. Our Holy Father Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia. A day when the faithful are highly encouraged to participate in the Divine Liturgy. Nativity Fast. Abstention from meat and foods that contain meat.

Thursday, December 5: Galatians 5:22-6:2. Matthew 11:27-30. Our Venerable and God-bearing Father Sabbas the Sanctified (532). Polyeleos Feast. Nativity Fast.

Wednesday, December 4: Hebrews 5:11-6:8. Luke 21:5-7, 10-11, 20-24. Great-Martyr Barbara (286-305). Our Venerable Father John of Damascus (749). Nativity Fast. Abstention from meat and foods that contain meat.

Tuesday, December 3: Hebrews 4:1-13. Luke 21:12-19. Holy Prophet Zephaniah (Sophonias) (7th century BC). Nativity Fast.

Monday, December 2: Hebrews 3:5-11, 17-19. Luke 20:27-44. Holy Prophet Habakkuk (Avvakum). Athansius the Recluse (1176). Passing into Eternal Life (1973) of Blessed Ivan Sleziuk, Catacomb Bishop of Ivano-Frankivs’k and Confessor.

Sunday, December 1: Colossians 3:12-16. Luke 18:18-27. Twenty-eighth Sunday after Pentecost, Octoechos Tone 3. Holy Prophet Nahum (7th century BC). The Epistle and Gospel are taken from the 30th Sunday after Pentecost.

Saturday, November 30: 1 Corinthians 4:9-16. John 1:35-51. Holy and All-Praiseworthy Apostle Andrew the First-Called. Polyeleos Feast. Nativity Fast.

Friday, November 29: Titus 1:15-2:10. Luke 20:19-26. Holy Martyr Paramon (249-51), the Holy Martyr Philomenus (270-75). Our Father Acacius, of Whom Testimony is Found in the Ladder of Divine Ascent. Nativity Fast. Abstention from meat and foods that contain meat.

Thursday, November 28: Titus 1:5-2:1. Luke 20:9-18. Venerable-Martyr Stephen the New (c. 764). Holy Martyr Irenarchus (284-305). Nativity Fast.

Wednesday, November 27: 2 Timothy 4:9-22. Luke 20:1-8. Holy Martyr James of Persia (422). Our Venerable Father Palladius. Nativity Fast. Abstention from meat and foods that contain meat.

Tuesday, November 26: 2 Timothy 3:16-4:4. Luke 19:45-48 Our Venerable Father Alypius the Stylite (610-41). James the Hermit (457). Blessing of the Church of the Holy Great-Martyr George which is in Kiev, before the Gates of Holy Wisdom Cathedral (1019-54.) Nativity Fast.

Monday November 25: Timothy 2:20-26. Luke 19:37-44. Leave-taking of the Feast of the Entrance of the Most Holy Mother of God into the Temple. Our Holy Father and Priest-Martyr Clement, Pope of Rome (101). Peter, Bishop of Alexandria (312). Nativity Fast.

Sunday, November 24: Ephesians 6:10-17. Luke 13:10-17. Twenty-seventh Sunday after Pentecost, Tone 2. Post-feast of the Entrance of the Mother of God. Holy Great-Martyr Catherine (310-13). Holy Great-Martyr Mercurius (249-51).

Saturday, November 23: Galatians 5:22-6:2. Luke 10:19-21 Post-feast of the Entrance of the Mother of God. Our Holy Fathers Amphilochius, Bishop of Iconium (4th c.) and Gregory, Bishop of Agrigentum (7th c.). Nativity Fast.

Friday, November 22: 2 Timothy 1:1-2, 8-18. Luke 19:12-28. Post-feast of the Entrance of the Mother of God. Holy Apostle Philemon and those with him. Nativity Fast. Abstention from meat and foods that contain meat.

Thursday, November 21: Hebrews 9:1-7. Luke 10:38-42, 11:27-28. Entrance into the Temple of our Most Holy Lady, the Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary. Feast of the Mother of God. Holy Day of Obligation.

Wednesday, November 20: Galatians 2:16-20. Matthew 26:6-13. Forefeast of the Entrance of the Most Holy Mother of God into the Temple. Blessed Josaphata Hordashevska, First Superior of the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate (+1919). Our Venerable Father Gregory of Decapolis (842). Our Holy Father Proclus, Archbishop of Constantinople (446). A day when the faithful are highly encouraged to particip...

Tuesday, November 19: 1 Timothy 5:11-21. Luke 17:26-37. Holy Prophet Obadiah (Abdias). the Holy Martyr Barlaam. Nativity Fast.