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title: "April 24, 2024 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Wednesday, April 24, 2024. 24 April (Revised Julian). Fast day. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on spas.life."
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Wednesday

# April 24, 2024

24 April (Revised Julian) · 6th week of Great Lent

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

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## Events of the day

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## 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 58:1–11

- Vespers

  Genesis 43:26–31, 45:1–16

- Vespers

  Proverbs 21:23–22:4

- Vespers · St Mark

  James 1:1–12

- Vespers · St Mark

  James 1:13–27

- Vespers · St Mark

  James 2:1–13

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  1 My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.

  2 For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in,

  3 and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing and say, “Sit here in a good place;” and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”

  4 haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

  5 Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

  6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

  7 Don’t they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?

  8 However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

  9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

  10 For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

  11 For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not commit murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

  12 So speak and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

  13 For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

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

## Saints and icons

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