Sviatki. Fast-free

Saturday January 9, 2021 / December 27, 2020

31^st Week after Pentecost. Tone five.
Sviatki. Fast-free

Saturday after the Nativity of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ
Holy Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen (34).
Venerable Theodore Graptus ("the Branded") of Palestine and Bithynia, confessor (840), brother of St. Theophanes the Confessor and Hymnographer (850).
New Hieromartyrs Tikhon, archbishop of Voronezh and with him 160 martyred priests (1919).
Virgin-Martyr Antonina (1937).
Venerable Boniface of Kiev (1871).
St. Theodore, archbishop of Constantinople (686).
Uncovering of Relics (1514) of Venerable Pherapont of Mozhaisk, Luzhetsk.
Venerable Luke, monk, of Tryglia.
St. Maximus, bishop of Alexandria (282).
St. Maurice and the Theban Legion. (Candidus, Innocent, Exuperius and 6,600 others) (302).

The Scripture Readings

Colossians 1:3-6
Luke 16:10-15
Acts 6:8-15; 7:1-5, 47-60 Saint
Matthew 21:33-42 Saint
1 Timothy 6:11-16 Saturday After the Nativity
Matthew 12:15-21 Saturday After the Nativity