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title: "December 29, 2033 — Prophet Haggai | Church calendar"
description: "Thursday, December 29, 2033. 16 December (Old Style). Prophet Haggai. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2033-12-29"
language: "en"
---

Thursday

# December 29, 2033

16 December (Old Style) · 29th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2033-12-29) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2033-12-29)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2033-12)

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## Events of the day

- Prophet Haggai

  Commemoration

## Fasting

Fast day · Nativity Fast

Nativity Fast, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday: fish is allowed.

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

By the Typikon (ch. 33) Tuesday and Thursday of the Apostles' and Nativity Fasts call for oil and wine only, fish only for a saint with a polyeleos; lay practice per the ROC calendar allows fish.

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 7:1–6

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  1 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

  2 to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, “king of righteousness”, and then also “king of Salem”, which means “king of peace”,

  3 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a priest continually.

  4 Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the best plunder.

  5 They indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest’s office have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the body of Abraham,

  6 but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.

- Gospel

  Mark 9:10–16

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  10 They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the “rising from the dead” meant.

  11 They asked him, saying, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

  12 He said to them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?

  13 But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him.”

  14 Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them, and scribes questioning them.

  15 Immediately all the multitude, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and running to him, greeted him.

  16 He asked the scribes, “What are you asking them?”

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Prayer to the Holy Spirit “O Heavenly King”](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/heavenly-king)