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 […]
August 15, 2021 Dormition of the Theotokos Saints and Feasts Commemorated Dormition of the Theotokos Concerning the Dormition of the Theotokos, this is what the Church has received from ancient times from the tradition of the Fathers. When the time drew nigh that our Savior was well-pleased to take His Mother […]
August 8, 2021 7th Sunday of Matthew Saints and Feasts Commemorated Gregory of Sinai and Mount Athos Saint Gregory of Sinai was born around the year 1268 in the seacoast village of Clazomenia near the city of Smyrna (Asia Minor), of rich parents. In about the year 1290, he was taken […]
August 1, 2021 6th Sunday of Matthew Saints and Feasts Commemorated Procession of the Precious Cross Because of the many diseases that occurred in the month of August, the custom prevailed of old in Constantinople to carry the precious Wood of the Cross in procession throughout the city for its sanctification […]
July 25, 2021 5th Sunday of Matthew Saints and Feasts Commemorated Dormition of St. Anna, mother of the Theotokos According to tradition, Anna, the ancestor of God, lived for sixty-nine years, and her spouse Joachim, for eighty; according to one account, Saint Joachim died two years before Saint Anna. The Theotokos had been […]
