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title: "December 12, 2029 — Martyr Paramon and the 370 with him"
description: "Wednesday, December 12, 2029. 29 November (Old Style). Martyr Paramon and the 370 with him; St Acacius of Sinai. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2029-12-12"
language: "en"
---

Wednesday

# December 12, 2029

29 November (Old Style) · 29th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2029-12-12) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2029-12-12)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2029-12)

[← December 11](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2029-12-11) [December 13 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2029-12-13)

## Events of the day

- Martyr Paramon and the 370 with him; St Acacius of Sinai

  Commemoration

## Fasting

Fast day · Nativity Fast

Nativity Fast, Wednesday and Friday: xerophagy.

- Meat: not allowed
- Dairy & eggs: not allowed
- Fish: not allowed
- Oil: not allowed
- Wine: not allowed
- Xerophagy

Food rules are reference church information. Agree your personal measure of fasting with a priest; consult a doctor if you are ill.

## Readings of the day

- Epistle

  Hebrews 5:11–6:8

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  11 About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.

  12 For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

  13 For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

  14 But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

  1 Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let’s press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

  2 of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

  3 This will we do, if God permits.

  4 For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

  5 and tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,

  6 and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.

  7 For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it and produces a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;

  8 but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

- Gospel

  Luke 20:1–8

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  1 On one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, the priests and scribes came to him with the elders.

  2 They asked him, “Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?”

  3 He answered them, “I also will ask you one question. Tell me:

  4 the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?”

  5 They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why didn’t you believe him?’

  6 But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.”

  7 They answered that they didn’t know where it was from.

  8 Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”

Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, Julian calendar. Text: World English Bible.

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [The Trisagion](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/trisagion)