November 21, 2021 Entrance of the Theotokos Saints and Feasts Commemorated The Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple According to the tradition of the Church, the Theotokos was brought to the Temple at three years of age, where she was consecrated to God and spent her days until she […]
November 14, 2021 8th Sunday of Luke Saints and Feasts Commemorated Philip the Apostle This Apostle, one of the Twelve, was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and was a compatriot of Andrew and Peter. He was instructed in the teachings of the Law, and devoted himself to the study of the prophetic […]
November 7, 2021 7th Sunday of Luke Saints and Feasts Commemorated Lazarus the Wonderworker Commemorated November 7 Our righteous Father Lazarus was born in 967 in Magnesia of Asia Minor, and passed through various regions of the East, visiting monasteries. He was tonsured a monk, and then ordained priest, at the Monastery […]
October 31, 2021 5th Sunday of Luke Saints and Feasts Commemorated Cosmas and Damian the Holy Unmercenaries, and their mother Theodota Commemorated on November 1 These Saints were from Asia (that is, Asia Minor). After the death of their father, their Christ-loving mother Theodota reared them in piety and in all manner […]
October 24, 2021 6th Sunday of Luke Saints and Feasts Commemorated St. Demetrios the Myrrh-Streamer – Commemorated on October 26 Saint Demetrios was a Thessalonian, a most pious son of pious and noble parents, and a teacher of the Faith of Christ. When Maximian first came to Thessalonica in 290, he raised the Saint […]
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 […]
