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title: "January 5, 2033 — The Ten Martyrs of Crete | Church calendar"
description: "Wednesday, January 5, 2033. 23 December (Old Style). The Ten Martyrs of Crete. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2033-01-05"
language: "en"
---

Wednesday

# January 5, 2033

23 December (Old Style) · 29th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2033-01-05) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2033-01-05)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2033-01)

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## Events of the day

- The Ten Martyrs of Crete

  Commemoration

- Forefeast: Nativity of our Lord, God and Saviour Jesus Christ

## Fasting

Fast day · Nativity Fast

Nativity Fast (from 20 Dec Old Style), Monday, 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

  Hebrews 5:11–6:8

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  11 About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.

  12 For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

  13 For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

  14 But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

  1 Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let’s press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

  2 of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

  3 This will we do, if God permits.

  4 For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

  5 and tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,

  6 and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.

  7 For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it and produces a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;

  8 but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

- 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)