January 12, 2022

Events of the day

• Martyr Anysia; St Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow

  Commemoration

• Afterfeast: Nativity of our Lord, God and Saviour Jesus Christ

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

  Hebrews 10:1–18

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  ¹For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

  ²Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?

  ³But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins.

  ⁴For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

  ⁵Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me.

  ⁶You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.

  ⁷Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.’ ”

  ⁸Previously saying, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn’t desire, neither had pleasure in them” (those which are offered according to the law),

  ⁹then he has said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,

  ¹⁰by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

  ¹¹Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices which can never take away sins,

  ¹²but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God,

  ¹³from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet.

  ¹⁴For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

  ¹⁵The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,

  ¹⁶“This is the covenant that I will make with them: ‘After those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;’ ” then he says,

  ¹⁷“I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more.”

  ¹⁸Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

• Gospel

  Mark 11:22–26

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  ²²Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God.

  ²³For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says.

  ²⁴Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.

  ²⁵Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.

  ²⁶But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your transgressions.”

Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, Julian calendar. Text: World English Bible.

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Trisagion