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title: "January 10, 2022 — The 20,000 Martyrs burned at Nicomedia"
description: "Monday, January 10, 2022. 28 December (Old Style). The 20,000 Martyrs burned at Nicomedia. No fast"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2022-01-10"
language: "en"
---

Monday

# January 10, 2022

28 December (Old Style) · 30th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2022-01-10) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2022-01-10)

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## Events of the day

- The 20,000 Martyrs burned at Nicomedia

  Commemoration

- Afterfeast: 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

  Hebrews 8:7–13

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  7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.

  8 For finding fault with them, he said, “Behold, the days come”, says the Lord, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;

  9 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they didn’t continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them,” says the Lord.

  10 “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

  11 They will not teach every man his fellow citizen, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all will know me, from their least to their greatest.

  12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more.”

  13 In that he says, “A new covenant”, he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.

- Gospel

  Mark 10:46–52

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  46 They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.

  47 When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out, and say, “Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!”

  48 Many rebuked him, that he should be quiet, but he cried out much more, “You son of David, have mercy on me!”

  49 Jesus stood still, and said, “Call him.” They called the blind man, saying to him, “Cheer up! Get up. He is calling you!”

  50 He, casting away his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus.

  51 Jesus asked him, “What do you want me to do for you?” The blind man said to him, “Rabboni, that I may see again.”

  52 Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your faith has made you well.” Immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus on the way.

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Morning prayer of St Macarius the Great](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/morning-macarius)