---
title: "January 28, 2029 (New Style) — St Ephrem the Syrian"
description: "Sunday, January 28, 2029. 28 January (Revised Julian). St Ephrem the Syrian. No fast"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2029-01-28"
language: "en"
---

Sunday

# January 28, 2029

28 January (Revised Julian) · Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2029-01-28) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2029-01-28)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2029-01)

[← January 27](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2029-01-27) [January 29 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2029-01-29)

## Events of the day

- St Ephrem the Syrian

  Commemoration

- Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee. The Lenten Triodion begins

  Commemoration

## Fasting

No fast

No fast today.

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

- 1st Matins Gospel

  Matthew 28:16–20

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  16 But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had sent them.

  17 When they saw him, they bowed down to him, but some doubted.

  18 Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

  19 Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

  20 teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

- Epistle

  2 Timothy 3:10–15

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  10 But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

  11 persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

  12 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

  13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

  14 But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

  15 From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

- Gospel

  Luke 18:10–14

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  10 “Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.

  11 The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

  12 I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’

  13 But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

  14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

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

## Saints and icons

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