Scripture Readings

• 1 Timothy 6:11-16
• 1 Timothy 3:14-4:5
• Matthew 12:15-21
• Matthew 3:1-11
• Ephesians 5:1-8
• Luke 17:3-10

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

Afterfeast of the Nativity of Christ. Saturday after the Nativity/Saturday before Theophany. Virgin Martyr Anysia at Thessalonica (285-305). Martyr Zoticus, Keeper of Orphans (4th c.). Apostle of the Seventy, Timon the Deacon (1st c.). Martyr Philoterus of Nicomedia (311). Ven. Theodora of Cæsarea in Cappadocia (8th c.). Ven. Theodora of Constantinople (10th c.). Monastic Martyr Gideon of Karakallou (Mt. Athos—1818). St. Makáry, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia (1563).