ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY THEN AND NOW: Sunday Before the Nativity of Christ Resource Page

Sunday of the Holy Ancestors of Christ (Falls Between December 18 and 24)

Oikos

Seeing the dazzling radiance of your conceiving, O Virgin, Abraham the friend of God, noble Isaac, Jacob and the whole choir of saints chosen by God rejoice; and they bring creation to meet you with words of joy. For you appeared as the source of joy, since you conceived in your womb him who once appeared in Babylon and beyond all understanding preserved unburned the Youths unjustly cast into the furnace. And so they also raise the song as they hymn a Virgin who gives suck.

Synaxarion for the Sunday Before the Nativity of Christ

Sunday Before the Nativity of Christ: Epistle and Gospel Reading

The Sunday Before the Nativity of Christ (Sergei V. Bulgakov)

A Summary of the Old Testament (St. Jerome)

Homily on the Genealogy of Christ (St. Gregory Palamas)

As We Approach the Nativity of Christ (St. John of Kronstadt)

Homily for the Epistle Reading on the Sunday Before Christmas (St. Luke of Simferopol)

Sunday of the Holy Fathers Before the Nativity of Christ (St. Justin Popovich)

Awaiting Christmas (Archim. George Kapsanis)

Christmas is Coming (Elder Aimilianos of Simonpetra)

The Genealogy of Christ - Both So Beautiful and So Comforting (Placide Deseille)

Honoring the Old Testament Athletes of our Faith