Thursday December 25, 2025 / December 12, 2025 29th Week after Pentecost. Tone three. Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Fish Allowed St. Spyridon the Wonderworker of Tremithon (348). Venerable Herman, Wonderworker of Alaska (1836). Venerable Therapontes, abbot of Monza (1597). Hieromartyr Alexander, bishop of Jerusalem (251). Martyr Synesius of Rome (3rd c.). Synaxis of the First Martyrs of
Wednesday December 24, 2025 / December 11, 2025 29th Week after Pentecost. Tone three. Nativity/St. Philip’s Fast Venerable Daniel the Stylite of Constantinopole (490). New Hieromartyr Theophan, bishop of Solikamsk (1918) and with him 2 Hieromartyrs and 5 Martyrs (1918). New Hieromartyr Nicholas priest (1937). New Hieromartyr John priest (1941). St. Kuksha (Velichko),
Satanic Christmas Sabotage “During the Nativity Fast, the devil becomes especially enraged. Quarrels, divisions, and temptations increase; unexpected obstacles appear – everything that the man-hating Satan devises. The aim of the evil one is to shake the ground beneath our feet and lead us into nervousness, so that we forget
Be Not Discouraged https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BY-A3Mwuf7I “O sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Saint Mary in all your necessities. Call her to your assistance, for such is the divine Will that she should help in every kind of necessity.” Saint Basil the Great #God #theotokos #virginmary
Tuesday December 23, 2025 / December 10, 2025 29th Week after Pentecost. Tone three. Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Food with Oil Martyrs Menas the Melodius, Hermogenes, and Eugraphus of Alexandria (310). St. Ioasaph, bishop of Belgorod (1754). New Hieromartyr Jacob and Alexander priests, Hieromartyr Eugraphus and his son (1918). New Hieromartyrs Anatolius, Alexander, Eugene,
Only The Grateful Are Faithful The greatest gift is already yours, but only if you want it. #orthodox #gratitude #gift
Monday December 22, 2025 / December 9, 2025 29th Week after Pentecost. Tone three. Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Oil Allowed The Conception by St. Anna of the Most Holy Theotokos. New Hieromartyr Vladimir priest (1919). New Hieromartyr Vladimir priest and Virgin-martyr Ephrosia (1920). New Hieromartyrs Basil and Alexander priests (1937). New Martyr Priest Sergius
Use Your Suffering “Blessed is the man who uses his sufferings, knowing that all suffering in this brief life is loosed on men by God in His love for mankind, for the benefit and assistance of men. In His mercy, God looses suffering on men because of their sins –
Sunday December 21, 2025 / December 8, 2025 28th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone three. Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Fish Allowed Venerable Patapius of Thebes (7th c.). New Martyr John (Kochurov), priest (1918). New Hieromartyr Sergius (1937). Venerable Cyril, abbot of Chelma Hill (1367). Holy Apostles of the Seventy: Sosthenes, Apollos, Cephas, Tychicus, Epaphroditus, Caesar, and
Bind Up Thy Words “Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An overflowing river quickly gathers mud.” Saint Ambrose of Milan #talk #words