“Ти, Господи, землю колись заклав, а небо – то чин
Твоїх рук. Загинуть вони, а Ти будеш стояти…”
(Євреїв 1:10-11)

Протоієрей Тарас Славченко
2-га Неділя Великого Посту

Commemoration of Great Martyr Theodore Stratelates, The General (319);
Prophet Zachariah (circa 520 B.C.); Saint Sava II, Archbishop of Serbia (1271).

Commemoration of Martyr Tryphon of Campsada in Syria (250); Martyrs Perpetua, of Carthage, and the catechumens Saturus, Revocatus, Saturninus, Secundulus and Felicitas (202-203); St. Peter of Galatia (circa 429); St. Vendemianus, hermit of Bithynia (circa 512).

Commemoration of Saint Gregory the Theologian, archbishop of Constantinople (389); Martyrs Felicitas of Rome and seven sons: Januarius, Felix, Philip, Silvanus, Alexander, Vitalis, and Martial (164); Saint Publius, ascetic of Syria (380); Saint Mares the Singer of Syria (430).

“Christ Is Baptized!”, “In the River Jordan!”

Commemoration of the Synaxis [meeting] of the 70 Apostles: James the Brother of the Lord, Mark and Luke the Evangelists, Cleopas, Symeon, Barnabas, Justus, Thaddeus, Ananias, Stephen the Protomartyr and Archdeacon, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Onesimus, Epaphras, Archippus, Silas, Silvanus, Crescens, Crispus, Epenetus, Andronicus, Stachys, Amplias, Urban, Narcissus, Apelles, Aristobulus, Herodion, Agabus, Rufus, Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobus, Hermas, Linus, Gaius, Philologus, Lucius, Jason, Sosipater, Olympas, Tertius, Erastus, Quartus, Euodias, Onesiphorus, Clement, Sosthenes, Apollos, Tychicus, Epaphroditus, Carpus, Quadratus, Mark, Zenas, Aristarchus, Pudens, Trophimus, Mark, Artemas, Aquila, Fortunatus, and Achaicus; Dionysius Areopagite and Simeon Niger; St. Theoctistus, Abbot at Cucomo in Sicily (800); Venerable Aquila, of the Far Caves in the Kyiv Caves Abbey (14th century); Venerable Martyr Zosimas the hermit and Martyr Athanasius the warden (3rd – 4th cent.).

Commemoration of Holy Forefathers: Joseph the Betrothed, David the King, James the Brother of the Lord; The 20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia, burned to death in church, together with the martyrs who suffered outside the church: Glycerius, Zeno, Theophilus the deacon, Dorotheus, Mardonius, Migdonius the deacon, Indes, Gorgonius, Peter, Euthymius, and the virgins Agape, Domna, Theophila and others (302); Apostle of the 70, Nicanor the Deacon (34).

Commemoration of the Virgin-martyr Juliana, and with her 500 men and 130 women, of Nicomedia (304); Repose of Saint Peter, Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Rus’, miracle-worker (1326); Martyr Theomistocles of Myra in Lycia (251); Saint Filaret, Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych (1857).

Commemoration of Martyrs Thyrsus, Leucius, and Callinicus (250); Martyrs Philemon, Apollonius, Arianus, and Theoctychus of Alexandria (286-287). Nativity Fast (St. Philip’s Fast).

Commemoration of ❖Saint Andrew the Apostle, the First-called (62); St. Frumentius, Archbishop of Abyssinia (circa 380).