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).