Theophany of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
Great Feast. One of the Twelve Great Feasts of the Church year.
Commemorated today
- The Holy Theophany of our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ
What is known
One of the Twelve Great Feasts: the baptism of Christ in the Jordan, and the showing of the Trinity. The waters are blessed on this day.
This is a feast of the Church rather than the commemoration of a person, so there is no life behind it to tell.
- Theophan the Recluse
What is known
Kept in the Greek tradition.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
Appointed readings
- Mark 1:9–11
- Titus 2:11–14, 3:4–7
- Matthew 3:13–17
- 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 6 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on January 19 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.