December 16 is a church holiday, why should you not talk to someone across the threshold of the house
What church holiday will be celebrated tomorrow in Ukraine according to the new calendar and to whom the faithful pray – read in the material of TSN.ua.
Tomorrow, December 16, in the Orthodox calendar the day of memory of the holy prophet Haggai. He was one of the twelve minor prophets in the Old Testament. He lived and prophesied at the end of the 6th century BC. H., approximately between 520 and 515 BC, during the reign of the Persian king Darius I.
Haggai prophesied during the period when the Jewish people returned from the Babylonian captivity (539 BC). After the Jews returned, they began to rebuild the Jerusalem Temple, but due to internal difficulties and external resistance, the construction was stopped for several years. Haggai had the task of inspiring the Jews to rebuild the temple. He rebuked them for caring more about their own homes and comforts than about restoring God's house, and exhorted them…
