PRIESTMARTYR CLEMENT, POPE OF ROME (+ 101). PRIESTMARTYR PETER, ARCHBISHOP OF ALEXANDRIA (+ 311). MONK PETER THE SILENT, OF GALATIA (+ C. 429). The PriestMartyr Clement, Pope of Rome, was born at Rome into a rich and illustrious family. Since childhood separated from his parents by force of circumstances, Clement was raised by strangers. Living…
Synaxarion
The Eve of the Nativity of Christ
EVE OF THE HOLY NATIVITY ST EUGENIA THE RIGHTEOUS VIRGIN MARTYR ST CARAN Troparion for the Eve of the Nativity Tone 4 When Mary conceived seedlessly/ she was registered in Bethlehem with the elder Joseph as being of the seed of David./ The time for birth came and there was no room in the…
St. Nicholas the Wonderworker
Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). +)St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, archbishop of Myra in Lycia (345). Blessed Maximus, metropolitan of Kiev (1305). New Martyr Nicholas of Karamanos in Asia Minor (1657) (Greek). St. Nicholas, bishop of Patara. St. Theophilus, bishop of Antioch (181). St. Abramius, bishop of Cratea in Bithynia (6th c.). + + + St. Nicholas the…
Fourth Sunday of Great Lent
Fourth Sunday of Great Lent
Adoration of the Precious and Life-giving Holy Cross
Adoration of the Precious and Life-giving Holy Cross
Second Sunday of Great Lent
2nd Sunday Lent
Sunday of Orthodoxy
Sunday of Orthodoxy
The Holy Prophet Daniel and the Three Children: Ananias, Azarias and Misael
Troparion, Tone 2 Great are the accomplishments of faith, for the Three Holy Youths rejoiced in the fountain of flames as though in the waters of rest; and the prophet Daniel appeared, a shepherd to the lions as though they were sheep. So by their prayers, O Christ God, save our souls! Kontakion, Tone 3 …
Saint Herman of Alaska the Wonderworker
December 12th (OS) / 25th (NS) Our Blessed Father Herman was one of a group of Orthodox missionaries sent from Valaam monastery near the Russian-Finnish border on Lake Ladoga. He was born into a family of merchants in the city of Serpukhov. He had a great zeal for Christ, pious from his youth, and entered…
Th Holy Martyrs Sophia and her three daughters Faith, Hope and Charity, at Rome (137)
Sophia was a widow in Rome in the time of the Emperor Hadrian, and raised her three daughters in the Faith. When the four of them were brought before the persecutors, Faith was twelve years old, Hope was ten, and Charity was nine. Ordered to make sacrifice to the goddess Artemis, all of them humbly…