Twenty-ninth Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday after the Baptism of Our Lord, God and Saviour Jesus Christ. “Christ Is Baptized!” “In the River Jordan!”

Commemoration of Martyr Tatiana Deaconess of Rome and companions (226-235); Martyr Mertius (284-305); Martyr Peter Apselamus of Eleutheropolis (309-310); Saint Eupraxia I of Tabenna (393); Saint Sava I, first archbishop of Serbia (1235); Icons of the Mother of God, called Akafistna and Nursing.

Christ Is Born! Let Us Glorify Him!

Sunday after the Nativity of Christ.

Commemoration of Holy Righteous Joseph the Betrothed, David the King, and James the Brother of the Lord; Venerable Job Maniavs’kyj; The 14,000 Infants (Holy Innocents) slain by Herod at Bethlehem (1st century); Saint Marcellus, abbot of the Abbey of the Unsleeping Ones (485); Saint Mark the Grave-digger of the Kyiv Caves Abbey (11th cent.); Saint Thaddeus, confessor, of the Studion (818).

Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost

Commemoration of Venerable Patapius of Thebes (7th century); Holy Apostles of the Seventy: Sosthenes, Apollos, Cephas, Tychicus, Epaphroditus, Caesar and Onesiphorus (1st century); Holy 362 Martyrs of Africa (62 priests and 300 laymen) martyred by the Arians (477); Martyr Anthusa of Rome (5th century).

Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost

Commemoration of Great-Martyr Catherine of Alexandria (305-313); Venerable Mercurius, Faster, of the Kyivan Caves (14th century); Saint Luke, steward of the Kyivan Caves Abbey (13th century); Martyrs Augusta the Empress, Porphyrius Stratelates, and 200 soldiers at Alexandria (305-313) Saint Mastridia of Alexandria; Martyr Philophea (1060, Romanian); Venerable Mercurius of Chernihiv, Abbot of Bryhyntsi (1956).