October 17, 2021 Sunday of the 7th Ecumenical Council Saints and Feasts Commemorated On the Sunday that falls on or immediately after the eleventh of this month, we chant the Service to the 350 holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council, which gathered in Nicaea in 787 under the holy Patriarch Tarasius […]
October 10, 2021 3rd Sunday of Luke Saints and Feasts Commemorated The 14 Holy Elders of Optina Monastery On this day we celebrate the Synaxis of the Righteous Fathers of Optina Hermitage in Russia, who struggled valiantly in the monastic life in prayer, humility, obedience, and love, and whom God deemed worthy […]
October 3rd, 2021 2nd Sunday of Luke Saints and Feasts Commemorated Dionysios the Areopagite- Commemorated on October 3th This Saint was from Athens, a learned man, and a member of the famous judicial court of Mars Hill (in Greek Aeros Pagos, hence the name Areopagite (see Acts 17:19-34). When Saint Paul preached […]
September 26, 2021 Falling Asleep of St. John the Evangelist and Theologian Saints and Feasts Commemorated This Apostle was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and was the son of Zebedee and Salome, and the brother of James the elder. First a fisherman by trade, he became an Apostle and the beloved Disciple […]
September 19, 2021 Saint Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury Saints and Feasts Commemorated Saint Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury Commemorated on September 19 Saint Theodore was the eighth Archbishop of Canterbury (668-690), and one of England’s great saints. He was a Greek from Tarsus, the home of Saint Paul. […]
September 12, 2021 Sunday Before the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Saints and Feasts Commemorated The Feast of the Universal Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross is celebrated each year on September 14. The Feast commemorates the finding of the True Cross of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ by […]
September 5, 2021 11th Sunday of Matthew Saints and Feasts Commemorated Holy Prophet Zacharias, Father of the Venerable Forerunner According to the opinion of many Fathers of the Church, based on an ancient tradition, this is the Zacharias whom, as our Lord said, the Jews slew between the temple and the […]
August 29, 2021 9th Sunday of Matthew Saints and Feasts Commemorated Beheading of the Holy and Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John August 29 The divine Baptist, the Prophet born of a Prophet, the seal of all the Prophets and beginning of the Apostles, the mediator between the Old and New […]
August 22, 2021 9th Sunday of Matthew Saints and Feasts Commemorated The Synaxis of the Icon of the Mother of God of Prusa The wonderworking icon of the Mother of God of Prusa saved from destruction at the hands of the Iconoclasts in the ninth century, when a certain nobleman of Prusa […]
