Commemoration of Holy Righteous Joseph the Betrothed, David the King, and James the Brother of the Lord.
Christ Is Born! Let Us Glorify Him!
The Nativity according to the flesh of Our Lord God and Saviour Jesus Christ – Christ Is Born! Let Us Glorify Him!
The Eve of the Nativity of Christ Christmas Holy Night – Christ Is Born! Let Us Glorify Him!
29th Sunday after Pentecost – Sunday before the Nativity, Sunday of the Holy Fathers
Commemoration of Martyr Boniface of Tarsus (290); Venerable Elias of Murom, Wonderworker, of the Near Kyivan Caves (circa 1188); Martyrs Elias, Probus, and
Ares the Egyptians (308); Martyrs Polyeuctus at Caesarea in Cappadocia, and Timothy the Deacon in Maurentiania (309); Saint Boniface the Merciful, bishop of Ferentino (5th century); Saint Gregory, archbishop of Omirits (552).
Twenty-eighth Sunday after Pentecost (Sunday of Holy Forefathers)
Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost
Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost
Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost
Commemoration of Apostles Stachys, Amplias, Urban, Narcissus, Apelles, and Aristobulus of the Seventy (1st century); Martyr Epimachus of Pelusium, who suffered at Alexandria (250); Saint Maura of Constantinople (436); Saints Spyridon and Nicodemus the Prosphora-bakers in the Near Caves of the Kyivan Caves Abbey (1148).