Saturday, January 1, 2022
Liturgical Season: 
II The Season of Yaldo-Denho
Special Significance: 
Naming of Our Lord
New Year begins
Mar Baselios and Mar Gregory
Feast of Moran Mor Baselios Cardinal Cleemis Catholicos
Erection of the Eparchy of Mavelikara (2007)

Eph 4:17-24

Renewal in Christ.* 17So I declare and testify in the Lord that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds;n 18darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance, because of their hardness of heart,o 19they have become callous and have handed themselves over to licentiousness for the practice of every kind of impurity to excess.p 20That is not how you learned Christ, 21assuming that you have heard of him and were taught in him, as truth is in Jesus, 22that you should put away the old self of your former way of life, corrupted through deceitful desires,q 23and be renewed in the spirit of your minds,r 24and put on* the new self, created in God’s way in righteousness and holiness of truth.s

Lk 2:21-24

The Circumcision and Naming of Jesus. 21When eight days were completed for his circumcision,* he was named Jesus, the name given him by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.g

The Presentation in the Temple. 22* When the days were completed for their purification* according to the law of Moses, they took him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord,h 23just as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord,”i 24and to offer the sacrifice of “a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons,” in accordance with the dictate in the law of the Lord.