Commemoration of Venerable Ephrem the Syrian (373-379); Venerable Palladius the Ascetic (IV century); Venerable Isaac the Syrian, bishop of Nineveh (circa VII); Venerable Ephrem, bishop of Pereyaslav of the Kyivan Caves Abbey (circa 1098).

Commemoration of Venerable Maximus the Confessor (662); Martyr Neophytus (305); Martyrs Eugene, Candidus, Valerian, and Aquila (303); Virgin-martyr Agnes (304); Martyr Anastasius (662); Venerable Maximus the Greek (1556); Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos “Hodigitria” (“Directress”) (4th century), and wonderworking “Paramythia” icon (807), of Vatopedi (Mount Athos).

Synaxis [meeting] of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist, John.

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