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title: "January 4, 2024 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Thursday, January 4, 2024. 4 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/2024-01-04"
language: "en"
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Thursday

# January 4, 2024

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

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2024-01-04) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2024-01-04)

[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 1:19–27

- Gospel

  Luke 16:1–9

  **Show the text**

  1 He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

  2 He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’

  3 “The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.

  4 I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.’

  5 Calling each one of his lord’s debtors to him, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my lord?’

  6 He said, ‘A hundred batos of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’

  7 Then he said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred cors of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’

  8 “His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

  9 I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

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)