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title: "January 3, 2035 — Martyr Juliana of Nicomedia"
description: "Wednesday, January 3, 2035. 21 December (Old Style). Martyr Juliana of Nicomedia; St Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2035-01-03"
language: "en"
---

Wednesday

# January 3, 2035

21 December (Old Style) · 32nd week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

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## Events of the day

- Martyr Juliana of Nicomedia; St Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow

  Polyeleos rank

- 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

  James 3:11–4:6

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  11 Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?

  12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.

  13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

  14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.

  15 This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

  16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

  17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

  18 Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

  1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

  2 You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

  3 You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

  4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

  5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

  6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

- 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)