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title: "December 30, 2034 — Prophet Daniel and the Three Holy Youths…"
description: "Saturday, December 30, 2034. 17 December (Old Style). Prophet Daniel and the Three Holy Youths Ananias, Azarias and Misael. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2034-12-30"
language: "en"
---

Saturday

# December 30, 2034

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

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2034-12-30) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2034-12-30)

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

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## Events of the day

- Prophet Daniel and the Three Holy Youths Ananias, Azarias and Misael

  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

  Colossians 1:3–6

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  3 We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

  4 having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the saints,

  5 because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

  6 which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

- Gospel

  Luke 14:1–11

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  1 When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.

  2 Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him.

  3 Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”

  4 But they were silent. He took him, and healed him, and let him go.

  5 He answered them, “Which of you, if your son or an ox fell into a well, wouldn’t immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?”

  6 They couldn’t answer him regarding these things.

  7 He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them,

  8 “When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, don’t sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than you might be invited by him,

  9 and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, ‘Make room for this person.’ Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place.

  10 But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.

  11 For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Prayer for the departed](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/departed)