Sunday of the Prodigal Son

Commemoration of Martyrs Pamphilius the priest, Valens the deacon, Paul, Seleucus, Porphyrius, Julian, Samuel, Theodulus, Elias, Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Daniel at Caesarea (307-309); Martyrs of Persia and Martyropolis (4th century); Venerable Marutha, Bishop of Mesopotamia (422).

Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee. Beginning of the Lenten Triodion

Leave-taking (last celebratory day) of the Feast-day of The Meeting of Our Lord.
Commemoration of Martyr Nicephorus of Antioch in Syria (257); Venerable Pancratius of the Distant Caves of the Kyiv Caves Abbey (13th century); Uncovering of the Relics of St. Innocent, Bishop of Irkutsk (1805); Hieromartyrs Marcellus, Bishop of Sicily; Philagrius, Bishop of Cyprus; and Pancratius, Bishop of Taormina (1st century).

Thirty-first Sunday after Pentecost

Commemoration of Venerable Xenophon, his wife Mary, and their sons, Aracadius and John of Constantinople (5th-6th centuries); Martyrs Ananias the priest, Peter the prison guard, and seven soldiers, in Phoenicia (295); St. Symeon ‘the ancient’ of Mt. Sinai (circa 390); Translation [moving] of the relics (845) of St. Theodore, abbot of the Stoudios Monastery in Constantinople (845); St. Joseph, archbishop of Thessalonica (830); Faithful David III the Restorer, king of Iberia and Abkhazia (1125, Georgia).

Thirtieth Sunday after Pentecost

Commemoration of Saint Macarius the Great of Egypt (390); Saint Mark, bishop of Ephesus (1444); Saint Macarius of the Near Caves of the Kyiv Caves Abbey (12th century); Saint Macarius, deacon, of the Distant Caves in the Kyiv Caves Abbey (13th – 14th century); Virgin-martyr Euphrasia of Nicomedia (303); Saint Macarius of Alexandria (394); Saint Arsenius, archbishop of Kerkyra (Corfu) (953); Venerable Anton of Martkophi, The Stylite (6th c., Georgia); Venerable Lavrentiy of Chernihiv (1950).

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).