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title: "March 24, 2025 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Monday, March 24, 2025. 24 March (Revised Julian). Fast day. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on spas.life."
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Monday

# March 24, 2025

24 March (Revised Julian) · 4th week of Great Lent

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2025-03-24) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2025-03-24)

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

[← March 23](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2025-03-23) [March 25 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2025-03-25)

## Events of the day

No commemorations in the content package for this day yet

- Forefeast: Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos

## 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 14:24–32

- Vespers

  Genesis 8:21–9:7

- Vespers

  Proverbs 11:19–12:6

- Vespers · Annunciation

  Genesis 28:10–17

- Vespers · Annunciation

  Ezekiel 43:27–44:4

- Vespers · Annunciation

  Proverbs 9:1–11

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)