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title: "January 16, 2021 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Saturday, January 16, 2021. 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/2021-01-16"
language: "en"
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Saturday

# January 16, 2021

16 January (Revised Julian) · 32nd week after Pentecost

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2021-01-16) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2021-01-16)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2021-01)

[← January 15](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2021-01-15) [January 17 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2021-01-17)

## 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

  1 Thessalonians 5:14–23

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  14 We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

  15 See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.

  16 Always rejoice.

  17 Pray without ceasing.

  18 In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

  19 Don’t quench the Spirit.

  20 Don’t despise prophecies.

  21 Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

  22 Abstain from every form of evil.

  23 May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

- Gospel

  Luke 12:32–40

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  32 Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

  33 Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

  34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

  35 “Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.

  36 Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the wedding feast; that when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.

  37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you that he will dress himself, make them recline, and will come and serve them.

  38 They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so.

  39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into.

  40 Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don’t expect him.”

Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, New Calendar (OCA practice). Text: World English Bible.

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Prayer for the departed](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/departed)