January 13, 2032

Events of the day

• St Melania of Rome

  Commemoration

• Leave-taking of the feast: 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 12:18–27

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  ¹⁸Some Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, came to him. They asked him, saying,

  ¹⁹“Teacher, Moses wrote to us, ‘If a man’s brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.’

  ²⁰There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring.

  ²¹The second took her, and died, leaving no children behind him. The third likewise;

  ²²and the seven took her and left no children. Last of all the woman also died.

  ²³In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as a wife.”

  ²⁴Jesus answered them, “Isn’t this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?

  ²⁵For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

  ²⁶But about the dead, that they are raised; haven’t you read in the book of Moses, about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

  ²⁷He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are therefore badly mistaken.”

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Jesus Prayer