January 12, 2025

Events of the day

• 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

• 7th Matins Gospel

  John 20:1–10

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  ¹Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.

  ²Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have laid him!”

  ³Therefore Peter and the other disciple went out, and they went toward the tomb.

  ⁴They both ran together. The other disciple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first.

  ⁵Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he didn’t enter in.

  ⁶Then Simon Peter came, following him, and entered into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying,

  ⁷and the cloth that had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself.

  ⁸So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in, and he saw and believed.

  ⁹For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

  ¹⁰So the disciples went away again to their own homes.

• 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,

• 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.”

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

Saints and icons

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