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title: "January 3, 2024 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Wednesday, January 3, 2024. 3 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/2024-01-03"
language: "en"
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Wednesday

# January 3, 2024

3 January (Revised Julian) · 31st week after Pentecost

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2024-01-03) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2024-01-03)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2024-01)

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## Events of the day

No commemorations in the content package for this day yet

- Forefeast: Holy Theophany. The Baptism of the Lord

## Fasting

No fast

Christmastide (25 Dec – 4 Jan Old Style) is fast-free: no fasting.

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 1:1–18

- Gospel

  Luke 15:1–10

  **Show the text**

  1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.

  2 The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”

  3 He told them this parable.

  4 “Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

  5 When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

  6 When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’

  7 I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

  8 Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?

  9 When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.’

  10 Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [The Trisagion](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/trisagion)