Nativity Fast
28 November 2019 – 6 January 2020
The Nativity fast begins on November 28 and lasts forty days. This period of fasting begins directly after the commemoration of the Holy Apostle Philip, on the November 28 according to the Church calendar, and concludes with the Nativity Feast itself. The Nativity fast is not as strict as Great Lent or the Dormition fast and can be compared to the Apostle’s fast: fish can be eaten on every Saturday and Sunday, as well as on festal days of the Church calendar that do not fall on Wednesday or Friday. It was instituted by the Church so that we would worthily greet the feast of the Nativity of Christ after having cleansed our hearts by prayer and repentance.
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Sunday 24th after Pentecost. Martyr Platon of Ancyra. Martyr Romanus the Deacon
Vigil and Confession: 6:00 p.m., November 30 Saturday
Liturgy: 10:00 a.m., December 1 Sunday |
ENTRANCE OF OUR MOST HOLY LADY THEOTOKOS AND EVER-VIRGIN MARY INTO THE TEMPLE
Vigil and Confession: 6:30 p.m., December 3 Tuesday
Liturgy: 9:30 a.m., December 4 Wednesday
On this day we remember how the holy righteous Joachim and Anna, the parents of the Most Holy Virgin Mary, fulfilling their promise to consecrate Her to God, when she had reached three years of age, brought her to the temple in Jerusalem, where She was met by the high priest Zacharius himself, who, in accordance with a special revelation from God, led Her into the very Holy of Holies, into which he himself might enter but once a year. This feast is notable in that it is, as it were, the threshold of the Nativity of Christ.
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Sunday 25th after Pentecost. St. Klement of Rome
Vigil and Confession: 6:00 p.m., December 7 Saturday
Liturgy: 10:00 a.m., December 8 Sunday |
| Parish Council Meeting: 7:00 p.m., December 11 Wednesday |
Archpastoral visit of Archbishop Kyrill
Sunday 26th after Pentecost. Prophet Habakuk.
Vigil and Confession: 5:30 p.m., December 14 Saturday
Meeting of the Archbishop and Liturgy: 9:30 a.m., December 15 Sunday |
St. Nicholas the Wonderworker
Vigil and Confession: 6:30 p.m., December 18 Wednesday
Liturgy: 9:30 a.m., December 19 Thursday
Holy Hierarch Nicholas is commemorated by the Church on December 6/19. St. Nicholas is commemorated by the Orthodox Church on every Thursday as well! Anyone who has ever prayed to St. Nicholas for help knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that he not only did exist, but still does exist, for our God is a God of the living (cf. Mt. 22:32). St Nicholas' title 'wonderworker' comes from the multitude of reports of miracles that issued forth at his intercession, both during his life and after.
Read more about the Saint here. |
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Sunday 27th after Pentecost. Conception of Theotokos.
Vigil and Confession: 6:00 p.m., December 21 Saturday
Liturgy: 10:00 a.m., December 22 Sunday |
Sunday 28th after Pentecost. Holy Forefathers.
Vigil and Confession: 6:00 p.m., December 28 Saturday
Liturgy: 10:00 a.m., December 29 Sunday |
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| *Dates listed are according to the civil calendar. |
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