---
title: "January 22, 2025 — Martyr Polyeuctus | Church calendar"
description: "Wednesday, January 22, 2025. 9 January (Old Style). Martyr Polyeuctus; St Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2025-01-22"
language: "en"
---

Wednesday

# January 22, 2025

9 January (Old Style) · 31st week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2025-01-22) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2025-01-22)

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

[← January 21](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2025-01-21) [January 23 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2025-01-23)

## Events of the day

- Martyr Polyeuctus; St Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow

  Polyeleos rank

- Afterfeast: Holy Theophany. The Baptism of the Lord

## Fasting

Fast day · Wednesday / Friday

Wednesday and Friday: fast without meat, dairy or eggs. Whether fish is allowed depends on the day's feast — check the church calendar.

- Meat: not allowed
- Dairy & eggs: not allowed
- Fish: not specified
- 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

  James 1:1–18

- Gospel

  Mark 10:11–16

  **Show the text**

  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)