--- title: "January 22, 2025 (New Style) | Church calendar" description: "Wednesday, January 22, 2025. 22 January (Revised Julian). Fast day. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on…" url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2025-01-22" language: "en" --- Wednesday # January 22, 2025 22 January (Revised Julian) · 31st week after Pentecost New Calendar (Revised Julian) [Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2025-01-22) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2025-01-22) [Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2025-01) [← January 21](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2025-01-21) [January 23 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2025-01-23) ## Events of the day No commemorations in the content package for this day yet ## Fasting Fast day · Wednesday / Friday Wednesday and Friday: fast without meat, dairy or eggs. Whether fish is allowed depends on the day's feast — check the church calendar. - Meat: not allowed - Dairy & eggs: not allowed - Fish: not specified - 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 James 1:1–18 - Gospel Mark 10:11–16 **Show the text** 11 He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her. 12 If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery.” 13 They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them. 14 But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these. 15 Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.” 16 He took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands on them. 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)