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title: "April 1, 2023 (New Style) — St Mary of Egypt"
description: "Saturday, April 1, 2023. 1 April (Revised Julian). St Mary of Egypt. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2023-04-01"
language: "en"
---

Saturday

# April 1, 2023

1 April (Revised Julian) · 5th week of Great Lent

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2023-04-01) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2023-04-01)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2023-04)

[← March 31](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2023-03-31) [April 2 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2023-04-02)

## Events of the day

- St Mary of Egypt

  Commemoration

## Fasting

Fast day · Great Lent

Great Lent, Saturday and Sunday: food with oil and wine.

- Meat: not allowed
- Dairy & eggs: not allowed
- Fish: not allowed
- Oil: allowed
- Wine: allowed

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

  Hebrews 9:24–28

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  24 For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

  25 nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own,

  26 or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

  27 Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

  28 so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

- Epistle · Theotokos

  Hebrews 9:1–7

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  1 Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service and an earthly sanctuary.

  2 For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lamp stand, the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place.

  3 After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,

  4 having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;

  5 and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can’t speak now in detail.

  6 Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services,

  7 but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.

- Gospel

  Mark 8:27–31

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  27 Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, “Who do men say that I am?”

  28 They told him, “John the Baptizer, and others say Elijah, but others: one of the prophets.”

  29 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered, “You are the Christ.”

  30 He commanded them that they should tell no one about him.

  31 He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

- Gospel · Theotokos

  Luke 10:38–42, 11:27–28

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

## Saints and icons

- [St Mary of Egypt](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/history/saints/mary-of-egypt)
- Prayer of the day: [Prayer of St Ephrem the Syrian](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/ephrem)