Monday January 5, 2026 / December 23, 2025 31st Week after Pentecost. Tone five. Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits) Forefeast of the Nativity of Christ. Holy Ten Martyrs of Crete: Theodulus, Saturninus, Euporus, Gelasius, Eunician, Zoticus, Pompeius, Agathopus, Basilides, and Evaristus (250). New Hieromartyr Basil priest
Hold Up “Husband and wife aren’t two people negotiating “my rights,” but two wounded people holding hands so they don’t fall; when one fades, the other carries it. When one is dark, the other lights the light of gentleness.” Mother Siluana #husband #wife #marriage
Sunday January 4, 2026 / December 22, 2025 30th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone five. Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Food with Oil Sunday before the Nativity of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ. Forefeast of the Nativity of Christ. Great-martyr Anastasia of Rome, deliverer from bonds, and her teacher Martyr Chrysogonus, and with them
Saturday January 3, 2026 / December 21, 2025 30th Week after Pentecost. Tone four. Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Food with Oil Saturday the Nativity of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ Forefeast of the Nativity of Christ. Virgin-martyr Juliana of Nicomedia, and with her 500 men and 130 women (304). Repose of St. Peter,
Silent Serving “We ate that which was given to us. No one ever said: ‘Give me something else,’ or, ‘I do not want that.’ In this manner, we spent our entire life in silence and peace.” Saint Poemen the Great #peace #silence #food Featuring the song: “The Truth From Above”
Heal “No one heals himself by wounding another.” Saint Ambrose of Milan #heal #wound #orthodox
Friday January 2, 2026 / December 20, 2025 30th Week after Pentecost. Tone four. Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Food with Oil Forefeast of the Nativity of Christ. Hieromartyr Ignatius the God-bearer, bishop of Antioch (107). Repose of Righteous John of Kronstadt (1908). Venerable Ignatius, archimandrite of the Kiev Caves (1435). St. Anthony, archbishop of Voronezh (1846).
Living The Promise “Through the Holy Spirit comes our restoration to paradise, our ascension into the kingdom of heaven, our return to the adoption of sons, our liberty to call God our Father, our being made partakers of the grace of Christ, our being called children of light, our sharing
Thursday January 1, 2026 / December 19, 2025 30th Week after Pentecost. Tone four. Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Food with Oil Martyr Boniface at Tarsus in Cilicia (290) and Righteous Aglae (Aglaida) of Rome. Venerable Elias of Murom, wonderworker of the Kiev Caves (1188). Martyrs Elias, Probus, and Ares, in Cilicia (308. Martyrs Polyeuctus at Caesarea in
Love Everyone “The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those who are not yet purified. But when they amend their lives, his delight is indescribable and knows no bounds.” Saint Maximus the Confessor #God #love #everyone