“Christ Is Baptized!”, “In the River Jordan!”

Commemoration of Hieromartyr Theopemptus, Bishop of Nicomedia, and Martyr Theonas (303); Venerable Syncletika of Alexandria (circa 350); Prophet Micah (9th century B.C.); Virgin Apollinaria of Egypt (circa 470); Venerable Phosterius and Menas (VI century); Venerable Gregory of Crete (circa 820).

Sunday after the Nativity of Christ.

Commemoration of Holy Righteous Joseph the Betrothed, David the King, and James the Brother of the Lord; Venerable Job Maniavs’kyj; The 14,000 Infants (Holy Innocents) slain by Herod at Bethlehem (1st century); Saint Marcellus, abbot of the Abbey of the Unsleeping Ones (485); Saint Mark the Grave-digger of the Kyiv Caves Abbey (11th cent.); Saint Thaddeus, confessor, of the Studion (818).

Christ Is Born! Let Us Glorify Him!

The adoration of the Magi: Melchior, Caspar, and Balthasar; Commemoration of
the shepherds in Bethlehem who were watching their flocks and came to see the Lord.

Commemoration of Hieromartyr Eleutherius, Bishop of Illyria, and his mother Martyr Anthis, Martyr Corivus the eparch (126); Venerable Paul of Latros (955); Saint Stephen, confessor, archbishop of Suroz (8th century); Meeting of Crimean Saints; Martyr Eleutherius at Constantinople (4th century); Saint Pardus, hermit of Palestine (6th century).

Commemoration of Venerable Patapius of Thebes (7th century); Holy Apostles of the Seventy: Sosthenes, Apollos, Cephas, Tychicus, Epaphroditus, Caesar and Onesiphorus (1st century); Holy 362 Martyrs of Africa (62 priests and 300 laymen) martyred by the Arians (477); Martyr Anthusa of Rome (5th century).

Commemoration of Prophet Nahum (circa 7th century B.C.); Righteous Philaret the Merciful of Amnia in Asia Minor (792); Martyr Ananias of Persia.

Commemoration of Great-Martyr Catherine of Alexandria (305-313); Venerable Mercurius, Faster, of the Kyivan Caves (14th century); Saint Luke, steward of the Kyivan Caves Abbey (13th century); Martyrs Augusta the Empress, Porphyrius Stratelates, and 200 soldiers at Alexandria (305-313) Saint Mastridia of Alexandria; Martyr Philophea (1060, Romanian); Venerable Mercurius of Chernihiv, Abbot of Bryhyntsi (1956).

Commemoration of Saint Gregory the Wonderworker, bishop of Neo-Caesarea (circa 266-270); Venerable Lazarus the iconographer of Constantinople (circa 857); Martyr Gobron (in baptism, Michael) and with him 133 soldiers of Georgia (914).

Commemoration of Apostles of the 70: Erastus, Olympas, Herodion, Sosipater, Quartus, and Tertius of the Seventy (1st century); Hieromartyr Milos, bishop in Persia and his two disciples (341); Martyr Orestes the physician, of Cappadocia (304); Venerable Theocteristus, abbot of Symbola on Mt. Olympus; Martyr Constantine, prince of Georgia (842); Torture and death on the wheel of great-martyr Gregory (303, Georgia)