SAINTS AND FEASTS


JANUARY

1 - On the Circumcision of our Lord Jesus Christ

1 - Basil the Great and Disfigured Christianity

1 - A New Year's Eve Story by Photios Kontoglou

2 - Saint Seraphim and Russia

2 - Cartoon of St. Seraphim of Sarov

4 - The Righteous Nikephoros the Leper (1890-1964)

4 - Synaxis of the Holy Seventy Apostles

8 - Saint Agathon of Egypt

10 - Saint Theophan the Recluse

13 - Saint Maximus Kavsokalyvites on Noetic Prayer

14 - Saint Nina the Equal to the Apostles and Enlightener of Georgia

15 - The Life of Saint Paul of Thebes

16 - The Apostle Peter's Miraculous Chains

17 - A Trek to Saint Anthony's Monastery in Egypt

17 - Saint George the New Martyr of Ioannina

17 - Saint Anthony the New, Wonderworker of Beroia

19 - Miracle of St. Basil the Great Against the Arians

19 - "Papoulakos": Righteous Christoforos Panagiotopoulos

20 - The Teachings of St. Euthymius the Great

20 - Saint Zacharias the New Martyr of Patras

21 - Life of Saint Maximus the Confessor

21 - Maximus the Confessor on the Church and Gospel

24 - Saint Xenia the Fool for Christ of St. Petersburg

25 - St. Gregory the Theologian's Principles of Theology

26 - Saints Xenophon, His Wife Mary, and Their Sons John and Arcadius

27 - Translation of the Relics of St. John Chrysostom

28 - Saint Ephraim the Syrian

28 - The Testament of Saint Ephraim the Syrian

28 - St. James the Ascetic: Who Murdered Yet Did Not Despair

29 - Transfer of the Relics of St. Ignatius the God-Bearer

29 - The Spirituality of Andrei Rublev's Icon of the Holy Trinity

29 - Tarkovsky's "Andrei Rublev"

30 - History of the Feast of the Three Hierarchs

30 - The Bogomils and the Three Hierarchs

30 - Finding of the Panagia Evangelistria Icon in Tinos

30 - The Relationship Between a Saint and an Emperor

31 - Saints Cyrus and John the Unmercenaries

31 - Saint Arsenios the New of Paros

31 - Holy New Martyr Elias Ardounis

FEBRUARY

1 - The Veneration of St. Tryphon in the Roman Empire

1 - Sts. Perpetua, Felicitas and Those With Them

1 - The Newly-Revealed Four Martyrs of Megara

1 - Saint Brigid (Bridget) of Ireland

2 - Origins of the Feast of the Presentation of Christ

2 - St. Sophronius of Jerusalem's Candlemas Sermon

2 - Does the Pure One Have Need of Purification?

3 - A Miracle of St. Symeon the God-Receiver

3 - Mission Notes: Saint Nicholas of Japan

29 - The Legacy of John Cassian in East and West

MARCH

2 - Where St. Nicholas Planas Liturgized Daily

2 - The Enthroned (or "Reigning") Mother of God Icon

APRIL

1 - St. Mary of Egypt: A Soldier of Christ

MAY

1 - Saint Nikephoros of Chios: Life and Sayings

19 - Parole Hearing of Fr. John Karastamatis

JUNE

12 - St. Peter the Athonite and the Demons

JULY

1 - The Relationship Between Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi and the Holy Unmercenary Saints

AUGUST

2 - St. Basil the Fool for Christ: A Russian Cartoon

3 - Prophet Ezekiel's Tomb To Be Turned Into Mosque

15 - Nea Moni in Chios and Panagia Neomonitissa

SEPTEMBER

1 - September 1: The Ecclesiastical New Year

OCTOBER

19 - The Relationship Between a Saint and an Emperor

NOVEMBER

9 - Apartment of St. Nektarios in Cairo

9 - A Miracle of Saint Nektarios in Jordan

9 - Saint Nektarios and the Military Officer

13 - Contemporary Miracles of St. John Chrysostom

23 - Bulgarians Return Relics of St. Dionysios I to Greece

29 - Official Glorification of Hieromartyr Philoumenos of Jacob's Well

DECEMBER

3 - Saint Theodoulos the Stylite

SECULAR HOLIDAYS

October 28 - Why We Celebrate OHI (OXI) Day in Greek Orthodoxy: The Virgin Mary and World War 2

Last Thursday of November - Orthodox Christians and Thanksgiving
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All Saints Celebrated In January

Sisoes, the great ascetic, before the tomb of Alexander, King of the Greeks, who was once covered in glory. Astonished, he mourns for the vicissitudes of time and the transience of glory, and tearfully declaims thus: "The mere sight of you, tomb, dismays me and causes my heart to shed tears, as I contemplate the debt we, all men, owe. How can I possibly stand it? Oh, death! Who can evade you?"

"Ascend, ascend, brethren, ascend with eagerness and resolve in your hearts, listening to him who says: ‘Let us go up to the mountain of the Lord and to the house of our God, Who maketh our feet like those of the deer, and setteth us on high places, that we may be victorious with His song.’" - St. John Climacos

"May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world." - Galatians 6:14

“Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." - Matthew 18:3