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title: "January 13, 2021 — St Melania of Rome | Church calendar"
description: "Wednesday, January 13, 2021. 31 December (Old Style). St Melania of Rome. No fast"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2021-01-13"
language: "en"
---

Wednesday

# January 13, 2021

31 December (Old Style) · 32nd week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2021-01-13) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2021-01-13)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2021-01)

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## Events of the day

- St Melania of Rome

  Commemoration

- Leave-taking of the feast: Nativity of our Lord, God and Saviour Jesus Christ

## Fasting

No fast

Christmastide (25 Dec – 4 Jan Old Style) is fast-free: no fasting.

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 3:11–4:6

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  11 Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?

  12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.

  13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

  14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.

  15 This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

  16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

  17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

  18 Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

  1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

  2 You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

  3 You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

  4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

  5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

  6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

- Gospel

  Mark 11:22–26

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  22 Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God.

  23 For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says.

  24 Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.

  25 Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.

  26 But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your transgressions.”

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [The Trisagion](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/trisagion)