--- title: "January 3, 2029 (New Style) | Church calendar" description: "Wednesday, January 3, 2029. 3 January (Revised Julian). No fast. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on spas.life." url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2029-01-03" language: "en" --- Wednesday # January 3, 2029 3 January (Revised Julian) · 31st week after Pentecost New Calendar (Revised Julian) [Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2029-01-03) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2029-01-03) [Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2029-01) [← January 2](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2029-01-02) [January 4 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2029-01-04) ## Events of the day No commemorations in the content package for this day yet - Forefeast: Holy Theophany. The Baptism of the Lord ## Fasting No fast Christmastide (25 Dec – 4 Jan Old Style) is fast-free: no fasting. 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 8:30–34 **Show the text** 30 He commanded them that they should tell no one about him. 31 He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. 32 He spoke to them openly. Peter took him, and began to rebuke him. 33 But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men.” 34 He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 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)