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title: "December 29, 2034 — Prophet Haggai | Church calendar"
description: "Friday, December 29, 2034. 16 December (Old Style). Prophet Haggai. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2034-12-29"
language: "en"
---

Friday

# December 29, 2034

16 December (Old Style) · 31st week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2034-12-29) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2034-12-29)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2034-12)

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## Events of the day

- Prophet Haggai

  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

  James 2:1–13

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  1 My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.

  2 For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in,

  3 and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing and say, “Sit here in a good place;” and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”

  4 haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

  5 Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

  6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

  7 Don’t they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?

  8 However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

  9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

  10 For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

  11 For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not commit murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

  12 So speak and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

  13 For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

- Gospel

  Mark 9:33–41

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  33 He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?”

  34 But they were silent, for they had disputed with one another on the way about who was the greatest.

  35 He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, “If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.”

  36 He took a little child, and set him in the middle of them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,

  37 “Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, doesn’t receive me, but him who sent me.”

  38 John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone who doesn’t follow us casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him, because he doesn’t follow us.”

  39 But Jesus said, “Don’t forbid him, for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my name, and be able quickly to speak evil of me.

  40 For whoever is not against us is on our side.

  41 For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you are Christ’s, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Short penitential prayers](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/penitential-short)