January 25, 2026

Events of the day

• St Sabbas, Archbishop of Serbia

  Polyeleos rank

• Holy Martyr Tatiana of Rome

  Commemoration

• Afterfeast: Holy Theophany. The Baptism of the Lord

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

• 11th Matins Gospel

  John 21:15–25

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  ¹⁵So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”

  ¹⁶He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”

  ¹⁷He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.

  ¹⁸Most certainly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself and walked where you wanted to. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you don’t want to go.”

  ¹⁹Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”

  ²⁰Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following. This was the disciple whom Jesus loved, the one who had also leaned on Jesus’ breast at the supper and asked, “Lord, who is going to betray you?”

  ²¹Peter seeing him, said to Jesus, “Lord, what about this man?”

  ²²Jesus said to him, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.”

  ²³This saying therefore went out among the brothers, that this disciple wouldn’t die. Yet Jesus didn’t say to him that he wouldn’t die, but, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?”

  ²⁴This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and wrote these things. We know that his witness is true.

  ²⁵There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself wouldn’t have room for the books that would be written.

• Epistle · Sunday after Theophany

  Ephesians 4:7–13

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  ⁷But to each one of us, the grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

  ⁸Therefore he says, “When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to people.”

  ⁹Now this, “He ascended”, what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?

  ¹⁰He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.

  ¹¹He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;

  ¹²for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

  ¹³until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

• Epistle

  1 Timothy 4:9–15

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  ⁹This saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance.

  ¹⁰For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

  ¹¹Command and teach these things.

  ¹²Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

  ¹³Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.

  ¹⁴Don’t neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.

  ¹⁵Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.

• Gospel · Sunday after Theophany

  Matthew 4:12–17

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  ¹²Now when Jesus heard that John was delivered up, he withdrew into Galilee.

  ¹³Leaving Nazareth, he came and lived in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,

  ¹⁴that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,

  ¹⁵“The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, toward the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles,

  ¹⁶the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”

  ¹⁷From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

• Gospel

  Luke 19:1–10

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  ¹He entered and was passing through Jericho.

  ²There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.

  ³He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn’t because of the crowd, because he was short.

  ⁴He ran on ahead, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was going to pass that way.

  ⁵When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.”

  ⁶He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.

  ⁷When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”

  ⁸Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”

  ⁹Jesus said to him, “Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.

  ¹⁰For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

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

Saints and icons

• Holy Martyr Tatiana of Rome
• Prayer of the day: The Symbol of Faith (Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed)