---
title: "January 1, 2025 — Martyr Boniface | Church calendar"
description: "Wednesday, January 1, 2025. 19 December (Old Style). Martyr Boniface. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2025-01-01"
language: "en"
---

Wednesday

# January 1, 2025

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

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2025-01-01) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2025-01-01)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2025-01)

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## Events of the day

- Martyr Boniface

  Commemoration

## Fasting

Fast day · Nativity Fast

Nativity Fast, Wednesday and Friday: xerophagy.

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

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

  2 Timothy 4:9–22

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  9 Be diligent to come to me soon,

  10 for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.

  11 Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service.

  12 But I sent Tychicus to Ephesus.

  13 Bring the cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus when you come, and the books, especially the parchments.

  14 Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds,

  15 of whom you also must beware; for he greatly opposed our words.

  16 At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.

  17 But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

  18 And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

  19 Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the house of Onesiphorus.

  20 Erastus remained at Corinth, but I left Trophimus at Miletus sick.

  21 Be diligent to come before winter. Eubulus salutes you, as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.

  22 The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.

- Gospel

  Mark 10:11–16

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  11 He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.

  12 If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery.”

  13 They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them.

  14 But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

  15 Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”

  16 He took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands on them.

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)