The Nativity in the Flesh of our Lord God and Saviour Jesus Christ: GREAT VESPERS WITH DIVINE LITURGY OF SAINT BASIL THE GREAT – Dec 24. This evening Liturgy is the first Eucharist of Christmas. Fully vested the priest insences the entire temple as usual and...
Sunday before the Nativity of Christ Tone 6; The Holy Great-Martyr Anastasia and her children Evodus and Eutychius (305); Hebrews 11:9-10 17-23 32-40; Matthew 1:1-25
Two Sundays before Christmas – Sunday of the Holy Ancestors; The Holy Prophet Haggai (Aggee) (6th c. BC); December 16. Text from “The Divine Liturgy: An Anthology for Worship”; Pgs. 345 (Tone 5) & 741 (SHF).
Theodosius was the first founder and organizer of the cenobitic way of monastic life. He was born in the province of Cappadocia in the village of Mogarissus of devout parents. As a child, he visited St. Simeon the Stylite who blessed him and prophesied great and...
When our Lord reached thirty years from His physical birth, He began His teaching and salvific work. He Himself signified this “beginning of the beginning” by His baptism in the Jordan river. St. Cyril of Jerusalem says, ” The beginning of the world...
