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title: "March 16, 2022 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Wednesday, March 16, 2022. 16 March (Revised Julian). Fast day. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on spas.life."
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2022-03-16"
language: "en"
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Wednesday

# March 16, 2022

16 March (Revised Julian) · 2nd week of Great Lent

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2022-03-16) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2022-03-16)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2022-03)

[← March 15](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2022-03-15) [March 17 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2022-03-17)

## Events of the day

No commemorations in the content package for this day yet

## Fasting

Fast day · Great Lent

Great Lent, 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

- 6th Hour

  Isaiah 5:16–25

- Vespers

  Genesis 4:16–26

- Vespers

  Proverbs 5:15–6:3

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Prayer of St Ephrem the Syrian](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/ephrem)