Sunday 24 after Pentecost
Vigil and Confession: 6:00 p.m., November 10 Saturday
Liturgy: 10:00 a.m., November 11 Sunday |
Sunday 25 after Pentecost
Vigil and Confession: 6:00 p.m., November 17 Saturday
Liturgy: 10:00 a.m., November 18 Sunday
Thanksgiving Moleben after Liturgy |
Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and the other Bodiless Hosts
Vigil and Confession: 6:30 p.m., November 20 Tuesday
Liturgy: 9:30 a.m., November 21 Wednesday
On this day the Church glorifies all the bodiless or angelic hosts — all nine ranks of angels, with the Archangel Michael, their leader, at their head. Here the word "synaxis" signifies an assembly of all the angels. Read more about the feast here. |
Sunday 26 after Pentecost
Vigil and Confession: 6:00 p.m., November 24 Saturday
Liturgy: 10:00 a.m., November 25 Sunday |
Nativity Fast
28 November – 6 January
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.
Read more about the fast, rules and learn how a person should keep the fast here or here. |
| Read all feasts description for the year on our website |
| Read article - PREPARING FOR CONFESSION |
| *Dates listed are according to the civil calendar. |
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