--- title: "January 16, 2020 (New Style) | Church calendar" description: "Thursday, January 16, 2020. 16 January (Revised Julian). No fast. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on spas.life." url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-01-16" language: "en" --- Thursday # January 16, 2020 16 January (Revised Julian) · 31st week after Pentecost New Calendar (Revised Julian) [Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2020-01-16) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-01-16) [Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-01) [← January 15](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-01-15) [January 17 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-01-17) ## Events of the day No commemorations in the content package for this day yet ## Fasting No fast No fast today. 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 1:19–27 - Gospel Mark 9:10–16 **Show the text** 10 They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the “rising from the dead” meant. 11 They asked him, saying, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?” 12 He said to them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised? 13 But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him.” 14 Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them, and scribes questioning them. 15 Immediately all the multitude, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and running to him, greeted him. 16 He asked the scribes, “What are you asking them?” Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, New Calendar (OCA practice). Text: World English Bible. ## Saints and icons - Prayer of the day: [Prayer to the Holy Spirit “O Heavenly King”](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/heavenly-king)