December 2020

Posted on 2 December 2020 by Admin

Morning worship 6.15 a.m.
Vesper (Evening service) 4.30 p.m.

Tuesday, 1^st of December
Holy Prophet Nahum
Righteous Philaret the Merciful
The Blessing of Holy Water will take place after The Morning worship

Monday, 2^nd of December
Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia
The Holy Prophet Avakum
Holy Martyr Myrope of Chios

Thursday, 3^rd of December
Holy Prophet Zephaniah (Sophonias)

Friday, 4^th of December
Holy Great-martyr Barbara
Venerable John Damascene

Saturday, 5^th of December
Venerable Savvas the Sanctified

Sunday, 6^th of December
Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, archbishop of Myra in Lycia

Monday, 7^th of December
Saint Ambrose, bishop of Milan

Tuesday, 8^th of December
Venerable Patapius of Thebes

Wednesday, 9^th of December
The Conception of Saint Anna (Mother of Theotokos)

Thursday, 10^th of December
Holy Martyrs Menas, Hermogenes, and Eugraphus

Friday, 11^th of December
Saints Nomonos and Vihianos

Saturday, 12^th of December
Saint Spyridon the Wonderworker of Tremithon

Sunday, 13^th of December
The Sunday of the Holy Forefathers
Holy Martyrs Eustratius, Mardarius, Orestes, Auxentius, Eugene
Holy Martyr Lucia

Monday, 14^th of December
Holy Martyrs Thyrsus, Leucius and Callinicus

Tuesday, 15th of December
Hieromartyr Saint Eleftherios, a Young Bishop

Wednesday, 16th of December
Saint Modest, Archbishop of Jerusalem

Thursday, 17^th of December
Holy Prophet Daniel
The Three Holy Youths: Ananias, Azarias and Misael
Saint Dionysius of Zakynthos

Friday, 18^th of December
The Holy Martyr Sebastian

Saturday, 19^th of December
Holy Martyr Boniface
Saints Polievktos and Ares

Sunday, 20^th of December
Sunday Before Christmas/ Genealogy of Jesus Christ
On this day the Church commemorates the ancestors of Christ from Adam to Joseph the Betrothed
Hieromartyr Ignatius the God-bearer, bishop of Antioch
Saint John of Kronstadt

Monday, 21^st of December
Virgin-martyrs Juliana of Nicomedia and Themistocles of Myra in Lycia

Tuesday , 22^nd of December
Holy Great Martyr Anastasia

Wednesday, 23^rd of December
The Ten Holy Martyrs of Crete
3.30 p.m. Holy Anointing
4.30 p.m. Vesper

Thursday, 24th of December
Holy Virgin and Martyr Eugenia
6.00 a.m. Great Hours of the Nativity of Christ
Great Christmas Vesper
Great Church Service to Saint Basil the Great
All celebrations will be in the morning, 24^th of December (there isn’t Church Service in the evening)

Friday, 25^th of December
The Nativity of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ
5 a.m. – 8.00 a.m. Christmas Divine liturgy (first service)
9.00 a.m. -11.00 a.m. Christmas Divine liturgy (second service)

Saturday, 26^th of December
The Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos

Sunday, 27^th of December
Sunday after the Nativity: Commemoration of the Holy Righteous David the King, Joseph the Betrothed, and James the Brother of the Lord
Holy Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen

Thursday, 31th of December
Leavetaking of the Nativity of our Lord
Venerable Melania the Younger of Rome