All day
3 December 2021
Friday December 3, 2021 / November 20, 2021
24th Week after Pentecost. Tone six.
Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits)
1Forefeast of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple.
1Venerable Gregory Decapolites (816).
1St. Proclus, archbishop of Constantinople (447).
oNew Hieromartyrs Macarius bishop of Ecaterinoslav, Alexis, Alexander, Vladimir, John, Alexis, Basil, Nicholas, John, Emilian, Nocolos priests and Hieromartyrs Arsenius, Eutihius and Hillarion, Woman Hieromartyr Ioanicus hegumen (1937).
oNew Woman Hieromartyr Tatiana (after 1937).
0Venerable Diodorus of George Hill (Solovki) (1633).
0Martyr Dasius of Dorostolum (Romania) (303).
0Martyrs Eustace, Thespesius, and Anatolius of Nicaea (312).
0Hieromartyrs Nerses and Joseph; and John, Saverius, Isaac, and Hypatius, bishops of Persia; Martyrs Azades, Sasonius, Thecla, and Anna (343).
oMartyrs Bautha and Denachis, who suffered with Hieromartyr Nerses of Persia (343). oSt. Isaac, bishop of Armenia (440). oVenerable Theoctistus the Confessor (855). oSt. Edmund, king of England and martyr (869) (Celtic & British).
oSt. Sozomen of Cyprus (12th c.).
The Scripture Readings
1 Tesalonika 5:9-13, 24-28
Lukas 16:15-18; 17:1-4
Saturday Reading
2 Korintus 11:1-6
Lukas 9:57-62
