Sunday, January 4, 2009

From the Synaxarion

• Cuviosul Mucenic Eftimie și cei doisprezece Cuvioși Mucenici de la Mănăstirea Vatoped
• Soborul Sfinților 70 de Apostoli
• Sfântul Mucenic Atanasie
• Sfântul Mucenic Zosima
• Sfântul Cuvios Nichifor Leprosul
• Sfânta Cuvioasă Apolinaria
• Sfântul Cuvios Teoctist, egumenul de la Kucumia Siciliei

Fasting today

• No weddings
  No weddings

  The Mystery of Marriage is not celebrated on fasting days (Wednesdays, Fridays and the four fasts), from Meatfare Sunday to Thomas Sunday, between Christmas and Theophany, on the Beheading of St. John the Baptist and on the eve and the day of the Great Feasts.

  Source: Calendar of the Romanian Patriarchate, “No weddings” (opens in a new tab)

There are no name days in the calendar on this day.