Commemoration of the Holy Ancestors Joseph the Betrothed, David the King, and James, the Brother-of-the-Lord; Venerable Melania (the Younger) of Rome (439); St. Peter Mohyla, Metropolitan of Kyiv and Galicia (1647).
Monthly Archives: December 2023
The Nativity according to the flesh of Our Lord God and Saviour Jesus Christ
Christ Is Born! Let Us Glorify Him!
The adoration of the Magi: Melchior, Caspar, and Balthasar; Commemoration of the shepherds in Bethlehem who were watching their flocks and came to see the Lord.
The Eve of the Nativity of Christ
Christmas Holy Night
Christ Is Born! Let Us Glorify Him!
Strict fast 24 December, 2023. Liturgy of Saint Basil the Great.
Twenty-eighth Sunday after Pentecost
Commemoration of Great-martyr Barbara and Martyr Juliana at Heliapolis in Syria (306); Venerable John Damascene (776); Venerable John, bishop of Polybotum (716).
Twenty-seventh Sunday after Pentecost
Commemoration of Great-martyr James the Persian (421); Venerable Palladius of Thessalonica (6th-7th c.); 17 Monk-martyrs in India (4th c.); Venerable Romanus the Wonderworker of Cilicia (5th c.).
Nativity Fast (St. Philip’s Fast)