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title: "April 3, 2025 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Thursday, April 3, 2025. 3 April (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/2025-04-03"
language: "en"
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Thursday

# April 3, 2025

3 April (Revised Julian) · 5th week of Great Lent

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

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

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2025-04)

[← April 2](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2025-04-02) [April 4 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2025-04-04)

## Events of the day

No commemorations in the content package for this day yet

## Fasting

Fast day · Great Lent

Wednesday and Thursday of the 5th week of Lent (the Great Canon): food with oil and wine.

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

- 6th Hour

  Isaiah 42:5–16

- Vespers

  Genesis 18:20–33

- Vespers

  Proverbs 16:17–17:17

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)