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title: "January 7, 2026 (New Style) — Synaxis of the Forerunner and…"
description: "Wednesday, January 7, 2026. 7 January (Revised Julian). Synaxis of the Forerunner and Baptist John. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2026-01-07"
language: "en"
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Wednesday

# January 7, 2026

7 January (Revised Julian) · 31st week after Pentecost

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-01-07) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2026-01-07)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2026-01)

[← January 6](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2026-01-06) [January 8 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2026-01-08)

## Events of the day

- Synaxis of the Forerunner and Baptist John

  Great Feast

- Afterfeast: Holy Theophany. The Baptism of the Lord

## Fasting

Fast day · Wednesday / Friday

Wednesday and Friday: fast without meat, dairy or eggs. Whether fish is allowed depends on the day's feast — check the church calendar.

- Meat: not allowed
- Dairy & eggs: not allowed
- Fish: not specified
- Oil: allowed
- Wine: allowed

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 · Forerunner

  Acts 19:1–8

- Epistle

  James 1:1–18

- Gospel · Forerunner

  John 1:29–34

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  29 The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

  30 This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.’

  31 I didn’t know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel.”

  32 John testified, saying, “I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.

  33 I didn’t recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water said to me, ‘On whomever you will see the Spirit descending and remaining on him is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.’

  34 I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God.”

- Gospel

  Mark 8:30–34

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  30 He commanded them that they should tell no one about him.

  31 He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

  32 He spoke to them openly. Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.

  33 But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men.”

  34 He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [The Trisagion](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/trisagion)