New Year's Day Resource Page

The Earliest Extant Sermon for New Years Day by Asterios of Amasea 

 

A Homily for the New Year (On the Kalends of January) by St. John Chrysostom 

 

Homily One on the New Year and the Circumcision of the Lord (Archpriest Rodion Putyatin)

 

Homily Two on the New Year and the Circumcision of the Lord (Archpriest Rodion Putyatin)

 

Homily Three on the New Year and the Circumcision of the Lord (Archpriest Rodion Putyatin)

 

December: Day 31: Teaching 2: On the Eve of the New Year

 

December: Day 31: Teaching 2: On the Eve of the New Year 

 

January: Day 1: Teaching 3: New Year's Day

 

January: Day 1: Teaching 4: New Year's Day 

 

Homily One for New Years Eve (St. John of Kronstadt)

 

Homily Two for New Years Eve (St. John of Kronstadt)

 

Homily on New Years Day in 1951 (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

On the Eve of the Nativity of Christ and the New Year (Fr. Michael Pomazansky)
 

Homily on the Coming New Year (St. Kallinikos of Edessa)

 

Homily for New Year's Eve (Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh)
 

A New Year, A New Beginning (Monk Moses the Athonite)

 

Welcoming the New Year of Holiness (Archim. George Kapsanis) 

 

2001 Pastoral Encyclical for the New Year (Metr. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)

 

2012 Pastoral Encyclical for the New Year (Metr. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)

 

2022 Pastoral Encyclical for the New Year (Metr. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)

 

2023 Pastoral Encyclical for the New Year (Metr. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)

 

2024 Pastoral Encyclical for the New Year (Metr. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)

 

2025 Pastoral Encyclical for the New Year (Metr. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos) 

2026 Pastoral Encyclical for the New Year (Metr. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)

 

Message for the New Year 2026 (Metropolitan Chrysostomos III of Mani)

New Years Day and the Christian 

 

New Year Resolutions and Time as an Opportunity

 

The Russian New Year Molieben

 

How Russians Celebrated New Years Before the Revolution 

 

St. Peter of Damascus: On Resolution

 

Death, Time and the Flame of Life   

 

An Image of Death's Relentless Approach

 

A Prayer for the Blessing of a Vasilopita (Composed by Elder Gervasios Paraskevopoulos)

 

The Meaning Behind the Vasilopita (1 of 2 

 

The Meaning Behind the Vasilopita (2 of 2) 

 

Should We Believe in Luck? Are There Unlucky and Lucky People? 

 

From Basil the Great To Santa Claus (Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)  

 

Time and the World of Decay (Photios Kontoglou) 

 

"John the Blessed": A New Year's Eve Tale by Photios Kontoglou 

 

New Year's Day at Agia Paraskevi (Photios Kontoglou) 

 

Genesis 1:1 and the End of Time (St. Basil the Great)  

 

Saint Basil the Great Resource Page 

 

Circumcision of Christ Resource Page