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title: "January 17, 2034 — Synaxis of the Seventy Apostles"
description: "Tuesday, January 17, 2034. 4 January (Old Style). Synaxis of the Seventy Apostles. No fast"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2034-01-17"
language: "en"
---

Tuesday

# January 17, 2034

4 January (Old Style) · 32nd week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2034-01-17) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2034-01-17)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2034-01)

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## Events of the day

- Synaxis of the Seventy Apostles

  Commemoration

- Forefeast: Holy Theophany. The Baptism of the Lord

## 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

  James 3:1–10

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  1 Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

  2 For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

  3 Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.

  4 Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires.

  5 So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

  6 And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

  7 For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and sea creature, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind;

  8 but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

  9 With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in the image of God.

  10 Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

- Gospel

  Mark 11:11–23

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  11 Jesus entered into the temple in Jerusalem. When he had looked around at everything, it being now evening, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.

  12 The next day, when they had come out from Bethany, he was hungry.

  13 Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.

  14 Jesus told it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again!” and his disciples heard it.

  15 They came to Jerusalem, and Jesus entered into the temple, and began to throw out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables, and the seats of those who sold the doves.

  16 He would not allow anyone to carry a container through the temple.

  17 He taught, saying to them, “Isn’t it written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?’ But you have made it a den of robbers!”

  18 The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.

  19 When evening came, he went out of the city.

  20 As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away from the roots.

  21 Peter, remembering, said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree which you cursed has withered away.”

  22 Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God.

  23 For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says.

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [The Jesus Prayer](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/jesus-prayer)