January 12, 2027

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

  2 Timothy 3:16–4:4

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  ¹⁶Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

  ¹⁷that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

  ¹I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:

  ²preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

  ³For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts,

  ⁴and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.

• Gospel

  Mark 11:11–23

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  ¹¹Jesus entered into the temple in Jerusalem. When he had looked around at everything, it being now evening, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.

  ¹²The next day, when they had come out from Bethany, he was hungry.

  ¹³Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.

  ¹⁴Jesus told it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again!” and his disciples heard it.

  ¹⁵They came to Jerusalem, and Jesus entered into the temple, and began to throw out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables, and the seats of those who sold the doves.

  ¹⁶He would not allow anyone to carry a container through the temple.

  ¹⁷He taught, saying to them, “Isn’t it written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?’ But you have made it a den of robbers!”

  ¹⁸The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.

  ¹⁹When evening came, he went out of the city.

  ²⁰As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away from the roots.

  ²¹Peter, remembering, said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree which you cursed has withered away.”

  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.

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Jesus Prayer