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title: "December 16, 2034 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Saturday, December 16, 2034. 16 December (Revised Julian). Fast day. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on…"
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Saturday

# December 16, 2034

16 December (Revised Julian) · 29th week after Pentecost

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2034-12-16) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2034-12-16)

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

[← December 15](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2034-12-15) [December 17 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2034-12-17)

## Events of the day

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## Fasting

Fast day · Nativity Fast

Nativity Fast, Saturday and Sunday: fish is allowed.

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

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

  Ephesians 2:11–13

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  11 Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “uncircumcision” by that which is called “circumcision” (in the flesh, made by hands),

  12 that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

  13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

- 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, New Calendar (OCA practice). Text: World English Bible.

## Saints and icons

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