The Bright Corner in the Abbot’s Study Friday December 17, 2010 / December 4, 2010 30th Week after Pentecost. Tone four. Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits) Great-martyr and Martyr Juliana at Heliapolis in Syria (306). Venerable John Damascene (760). New Hieromartyrs Alexis, John,

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Lake Crescent, in the Olympic National Forest December 15, 2010 30th Week after Pentecost. Tone four. Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits) Prophet Habakkuk (Abbacum) (7th c. B.C.). New Hieromartyr John priest (1919). New Hieromartyr Mathew priest (1921). New Hieromartyr Demetrius priest and Venarable

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His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, together with his spiritual father, Igumen Ilija of Obtina December 12, 2010 29th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone four. Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Fish Allowed Martyr Paramon and 370 Martyrs in Bithynia (250). Martyr Philumenus of Ancyra, and with him Martyrs Valerian and Phaedrus (274). Venerable Acacius

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The Narthex chandelier, crafted by Alexander Karg December 11, 2010 29th Week after Pentecost. Tone three. Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Fish Allowed Martyr Stephen the New of Mt. St. Auxentius (767). Martyr Hirenarchus and Seven Women-martyrs at Sebaste (303). New Hieromartyr Seraphim (Chichagov), metropolitan of St. Petersburg (1937). New Hieromartyrs

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Midnight Office December 9, 2010 29th Week after Pentecost. Tone three. Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Fish Allowed Venerable Alypius the Stylite of Adrianopolis (640). Dedication of the Church of St. George at Kiev (1051). Repose of St. Innocent, first bishop of Irkutsk (1731). New Hieromartyrs Nicholas, John, Gregory and Nazarius,

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