Fast day — no meat, dairy, fish, wine or oil.
Commemorated today
- Holy Martyrs Theopemptus and Theonas (c. 290)Martyr · d. c. 290
- Our Venerable Mother Syncletike (4th century)Monastic · 4th century
- Gregory of Akrita
- Apollinaria of Egypt
Appointed readings
- Genesis 1:1–13
- Exodus 14:15–18, 21–23, 27–29
- Exodus 15:22–16:1
- Joshua 3:7–8, 15–17
- 4[2] Kings 2:6–14
- 4[2] Kings 5:9–14
- Isaiah 1:16–20
- Genesis 32:1–10
- Exodus 2:5–10
- Judges 6:36–40
- 3[1] Kings 18:30–39
- 4[2] Kings 2:19–22
- Isaiah 49:8–15
- Isaiah 35:1–10
- Isaiah 55:1–13
- Isaiah 12:3–6
- 1 Corinthians 10:1–4
- Mark 1:9–11
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on January 5 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on January 18 by the civil calendar. The movable cycle, which turns on the date of Pascha and changes every year, is on the calendar page. Where a life has been written on this site the name links to it; where it has not, only what the commemoration itself attests is shown, and nothing is added to it.