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The First Day of the Month of January

Menologion

• The Circumcision of our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ
• St. Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia (379)
• St. Emmelia, mother of SS. Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, Macrina and Peter of Sebaste
• Martyr Basil of Ancyra (362)
• St. Fulgentius, bishop of Ruspe in North Africa (533)
• Martyr Theodotus
• St. Gregory, bishop of Nazianzus and father of St. Gregory the Theologian (374)
• Martyr Telemachus (or Almachius), monk (ca. 404)
• St. Theodosius of Tryglia, abbot
• New Martyr Peter of the Peloponnesus (1776)
• New Hieromartyrs Platon, bishop of Revel, Estonia and Priests Michael and Nicholas (1919)
• Sourozh Cal.: St. Maelrhys, Confessor of Bardsey Island, Wales (6th cent.)
• New Hieromartyrs Alexander archbishop of Samara and with him John, Alexander, John, Alexander, Trophime, Viacheslav, Basil and James priests (1938)
• St. Eugendus, abbot of Condatin the Jura Mountains (510)
• St. Clarus of Vienne (ca. 660) (Gaul)
• St. Fanchea of Killeany (ca. 520) (Celtic & British)

Prophetologion: Readings for Vespers

• The Reading is from Genesis. [Ge 17:1-2,4b-7,3a,9-12a,14]
• The Reading is from Proverbs. [Pr 8:22-30]
• The Reading is from the Wisdom of Solomon. [Pr 10:31-32; 11:4,7,19; 13:2,9; 8:17; 15:2; 14:33; 22:11; Eccl 8:1; Wis 6:13,12,14-16; 7:30; 8:2-4,7-9,17-18,21; 9:1-5,10-11,14]

Liturgy:

• Circumcision, Col. 2:8 - 12; Luke 2:20 - 21, 40 - 52
• St. Basil the Great, Heb. 7:26 - 8:2; Luke 6:17-23

Troparion of the Feast Tone 1

Thou Who art by nature God, didst without change take human form,/ O most compassionate Lord,/ and in fulfilling the Law of Thine own will didst receive circumcision in the flesh,/ to banish hades and roll away the veil of our passions./ Glory to Thy goodness; glory to Thy compassion;/ glory to Thy condescension, O Word.

Another Troparion of the Feast Tone 1

Thou Who sittest with the Father/ on a fiery throne in the heights/ wast pleased to be born of a Virgin through the Divine Spirit on earth./ Wherefore Thou wast circumcised as a man on the eighth day./ Glory to Thine all-gracious will; glory to Thy providence;/ glory to Thy condescension, O only Lover of mankind.

Troparion of St. Basil the Great Tone 1

Thy fame has gone forth into all the earth,/ which has received thy word./ Thereby thou hast taught the Faith; thou hast revealed the nature of created things;/ thou hast made a royal priesthood of the ordered life of men./ Righteous Father Basil, intercede with Christ our God/ that our souls may be saved.

Kontakion of the Feast Tone 3

In undergoing circumcision/ the Lord of all has circumcised the sins of mortal men./ On this day He gives salvation to the world./ And the Hierarch Basil, the Creator's lightbearer/ and Christ's mystic, rejoices in the highest.

Kontakion of St. Basil the Great Tone 4

Thou wast an unshaken foundation of the Church/ and didst give to all mortals an inviolate lordship/ which thou didst seal with thy doctrine,/ O righteous Basil, / revealer of the mysteries of heaven.

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• St. Basil, 2, 3, 4 Iconogram
• St. Basil with Scenes from His Life 16th c. icon
• Hierarch Basil the Great - Universal Teacher
• Saint Almachus, or Telemachus, Martyr
• Of Honorius the emperor and Telemachus the monk
• Russian Icons
• Prologue From Ochrid by St Nikolai Velimirovich
• OCA - Lives of all saints commemorated on this day
• OCA - Troparia and Kontakia
• Bulgakov Handbook trans. by Fr. Eugene Tarris
• Mesyatseslov of Saints Lives (Russian)

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