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title: "February 1, 2030 — St Macarius the Great of Egypt"
description: "Friday, February 1, 2030. 19 January (Old Style). St Macarius the Great of Egypt; St Mark, Archbishop of Ephesus. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2030-02-01"
language: "en"
---

Friday

# February 1, 2030

19 January (Old Style) · 36th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2030-02-01) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2030-02-01)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2030-02)

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## Events of the day

- St Macarius the Great of Egypt; St Mark, Archbishop of Ephesus

  Commemoration

## 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 2:1–13

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  1 My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.

  2 For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in,

  3 and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing and say, “Sit here in a good place;” and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”

  4 haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

  5 Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

  6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

  7 Don’t they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?

  8 However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

  9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

  10 For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

  11 For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not commit murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

  12 So speak and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

  13 For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

- Gospel

  Mark 10:23–32

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  23 Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, “How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!”

  24 The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, “Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!

  25 It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”

  26 They were exceedingly astonished, saying to him, “Then who can be saved?”

  27 Jesus, looking at them, said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God.”

  28 Peter began to tell him, “Behold, we have left all, and have followed you.”

  29 Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,

  30 but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.

  31 But many who are first will be last; and the last first.”

  32 They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going in front of them, and they were amazed; and those who followed were afraid. He again took the twelve, and began to tell them the things that were going to happen to him.

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Short penitential prayers](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/penitential-short)