Tuesday, 29 December 2026

Saints of the day

• Martyred 14,000 Holy Infants, slain by Herod in Bethlehem
• Venerable Marcellus, Abbot of the Monastery called the “Unsleeping Ones” († 485)
• Afterfeast of the Nativity of Our Lord
• Venerable Mark the Grave-Digger, Theophilus and John of the Kiev Caves (11th-12th C)
• Venerable Thaddeus the Confessor of the Studion Monastery († 818)
• Venerable Benjamin of Nitria
• Venerable Athinadorus, a disciple of Pakhomius the Great
• Holy Hierarch Gregory, Bishop of Nicomedia
• Venerable Libanius
• Prophet Nathan

Fasting

Any food is fine.

Fasting is personal; ask your priest.

Readings

• Epistle: Hebrews 12:25-26, 13:22-25
• Gospel: Mark 8:22-26
• Epistle: 2 Corinthians 5:15-21
• Gospel: Matthew 2:13-23

Full text of the readings