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title: "March 4, 2025 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Tuesday, March 4, 2025. 4 March (Revised Julian). Fast day. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on spas.life."
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2025-03-04"
language: "en"
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Tuesday

# March 4, 2025

4 March (Revised Julian) · 1st week of Great Lent

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2025-03-04) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2025-03-04)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2025-03)

[← March 3](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2025-03-03) [March 5 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2025-03-05)

## Events of the day

No commemorations in the content package for this day yet

## Fasting

Fast day · Great Lent

Great Lent, Tuesday and Thursday: cooked food without oil.

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

The first week of Great Lent is kept with particular strictness; agree your measure with a priest.

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 1:19–2:3

- Vespers

  Genesis 1:14–23

- Vespers

  Proverbs 1:20–33

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

## Saints and icons

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