Orthodox holidays in January. Commemoration of the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
). Just as the new year is the beginning of the days of summer, so on this day it is necessary to draw into the soul such thoughts, feelings and dispositions that could, worthy of a Christian, control the entire course of his affairs throughout the year. We will immediately find this as soon as we take into account that there is a new year in the spiritual life. In the spiritual life there is a new year, when one of those living in negligence begins to be zealous for salvation and pleasing God: for when someone decides to do this, then everything inside and outside of him is rebuilt anew and on new principles, the ancient passes by and everything becomes new. If you have it, renew it; and if not, - produce - and you will have a new year. The worthy celebration of the circumcision of the Lord and the memory of St. Basil the Great. The essence of this change lies in the fact that from this moment a person begins to live solely for God for his own salvation, whereas previously he lived exclusively for himself, preparing his own destruction. Here he gives up his former habits, all pleasures and everything in which he found pleasure; cuts off passions and lustful dispositions and accepts deeds of strict self-denial. And such a change exactly represents what, according to the Apostle, the circumcision of the heart should be - which the celebration of the circumcision of the Lord reminds us of and to which we are obliged, and an example of which St. Basil the Great. Thus, all the objects crammed into consciousness converge on one thing in the New Year - our inner renewal through the circumcision of the heart. If the Lord pleases someone to tune into the New Year in this way, that is, not only to think like this, but also to put all this into practice, he will celebrate the New Year in the most perfect way in a Christian way and prepare for the Christian pastime of the whole summer. In the next New Year, he will only need to renew and revive what he has now perceived.
( ; ). "The House of God, which is the Church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth." Therefore, we have no reason to turn our eyes hither and thither to see if there is truth somewhere. She is close. Be in the Church, contain everything that it contains, and you will be in the truth, you will possess the truth and live according to it and in it, and as a result of this you will be filled with true life. There is no truth outside the Orthodox Church. She is the only faithful guardian of everything commanded by the Lord through the Holy Apostles and is therefore the true Apostolic Church. Others have lost the Apostolic Church, and, as in the Christian consciousness, they are convinced that only the Apostolic Church can faithfully preserve and indicate the truth, they decided to build such a church themselves, and they built it, and gave it such a name. The name was given, but the creatures could not tell. For the Apostolic Church was created by the good will of the Father by the Lord Savior by the grace of the Holy Spirit through the Apostles. People can't create one like that. Those who think to create such a thing are likened to children playing with dolls. If there is no true Apostolic Church on earth, there is nothing to waste and labor on creating it. But thanks be to the Lord, He did not allow the gates of hell to overcome the Holy Apostolic Church. She is and will remain according to His promise, to the end of the age. And this is our Orthodox Church. Thank God!
Church holidays and fasts in 2020
Great church holidays in 2020
Average church holidays in 2020
February 12, 2020 - Three Saints - Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, John Chrysostom
Church Orthodox posts in 2020
Multi-day posts
One day posts
Wednesday and Friday throughout the year, with the exception of continuous weeks and Christmas.
Continuous weeks in which there is no post
Note! According to the Church Charter, there is no fasting on the feasts of the Nativity of Christ and Theophany, which happened on Wednesday and Friday. On Christmas Eve and Epiphany Eve and on the feasts of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross and the Beheading of John the Baptist, a meal with vegetable oil is allowed.
On the feasts of the Presentation, the Transfiguration of the Lord, the Assumption, the Nativity and Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos, Her Entry into the Temple, the Nativity of John the Baptist, the Apostles Peter and Paul, John the Theologian, which happened on Wednesday and Friday, and also in the period from Easter to Trinity on Wednesday and Friday fish are allowed.
Parental Saturdays in 2020 (commemoration days of the dead)
Church calendar for 2020 by months
Church holidays, fasts, days of memory of saints in January 2020
Orthodox Church holidays in January 2020
January 1, 2020, WednesdayMemorial Day of the Martyr Boniface of Tarsus.
Memorial Day of Ilya Murom the Wonderworker.
Martyrs Polyeuctus and Timothy, deacon.
Week before Christmas.
Prefeast of the Nativity of Christ.
Hieromartyr Ignatius the God-bearer.
Righteous John of Kronstadt, miracle worker.
Saint Anthony (Smirnitsky), Archbishop of Voronezh.
Novodvorskaya; "Savior of the drowning" (Lenkovskaya, Novgorod-Severskaya) - icons of the Mother of God.
The Advent continues.
Glorification of the Great Martyr Juliana.
The Repose of Saint Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia, Wonderworker.
Blessed Princess Juliana Vyazemskaya, Novotorzhskaya.
The Advent continues.
Saturday before Christmas.
Great Martyr Anastasia the Solver.
The Advent continues.
Week before Christmas, holy fathers.
Ten Cretan Martyrs: Theodulus, Satorninus, Euporus, Gelasius, Eunicianus, Zotica, Pompius, Agathopus, Basilides and Evarest.
Memorial Day of Hieromartyr Basil and Martyrs Macarius and John.
Eve of the Nativity of Christ (Christmas Eve).
Memorial Day of the Martyr Eugenia and others like her.
Reverend Nicholas the Slav, schemamonk.
The Advent continues.
Nativity of Christ (Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ).
Adoration of the Holy Magi: Melchior, Gaspard and Belshazzar.
Feast of the Nativity of Christ.
Cathedral of the Holy Mother of God.
Hieromartyr Euthymius, Bishop of Sardis.
Ostrobramskaya Vilna; "Three Joys"; Baibuzskaya; "Merciful"; Barlovskaya (Blessed Womb); "Assistant in childbirth"; “Rejoices in You” - icons of the Mother of God.
Apostle of the First Martyr and Archdeacon Stephen.
Reverend Theodore the Inscribed, confessor.
Memorial Day of 20,000 martyrs who suffered in Nicomedia.
Saturday after Christmas.
14,000 infant martyrs, beaten by Herod in Bethlehem.
Reverend Markell of Apamea, hegumen of the "Unsleeping" monastery.
Week after Christmas.
Saint Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow.
Righteous Joseph the Betrothed, King David and Jacob, brother of the Lord according to the flesh.
The celebration of the feast of the Nativity of Christ.
Venerable Melania the Roman.
Saint Peter (Graves), Metropolitan of Kiev.
Circumcision of the Lord.
Day of St. Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesarea Cappadocia.
Prefeast of the Epiphany.
Repose, the second acquisition of the relics of St. Seraphim, Sarov miracle worker.
Righteous Juliana of Lazarevskaya, Muromskaya.
Day of remembrance of the holy prophet Malachi. They predicted the appearance of the Savior, the Forerunner and the Last Judgment.
Martyr Gordius of Cappadocia.
Cathedral of the 70 Apostles.
Memorial Day of the Monk Theoktist, hegumen Kukum of Sikelia.
Saturday before Epiphany.
Eve of the Epiphany (Epiphany Christmas Eve).
On this day, a strict fast should be observed.
Hieromartyr Theopemptus, Bishop of Nicomedia, and Martyr Theona Magus.
Holy Epiphany. Baptism of the Lord (Baptism of the Lord Jesus Christ).
The Repose of St. Theophan, the Hermit Vyshensky.
Feast of the Epiphany.
Cathedral of the honorable and glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord John.
Saint Gregory, Wonderworker of the Caves.
Memorial Day of Saints George Khozevita and Emilian the Confessor.
Venerable Domnica of Constantinople, abbess.
Saint Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia, miracle worker.
Lent day.
Saint Theophan, the Hermit Vyshensky.
Reverend Pavel Komelsky (Obnorsky).
Venerable Theodosius the Great, chief of the general life.
Reverend Michael of Klopsky, Novgorod.
Eletskoy - the icon of the Mother of God.
Lent day.
Saturday after Epiphany.
Tatyana's Day - the day of the Blessed Martyr Tatyana, who suffered for her faith.
Saint Sava, Archbishop of Serbia.
Akathist; Popskaya (Priestly); "Mammary" - icons of the Mother of God.
Week after Epiphany.
Memorial Day of the Martyrs Ermil and Stratonik.
Reverend Irinarkh, a recluse of Rostov.
The celebration of the feast of the Epiphany.
Day of Equal-to-the-Apostles Nina, Enlightener of Georgia.
Reverend father, beaten in Sinai and Raifa: the martyrs Isaiah, Savva, Moses and his disciple Moses, Jeremiah, Paul, Adam, Sergius, Domnos, Proclus, Hypatius, Isaac, Macarius, Mark, Benjamin, Eusebius, Elijah and others with them.
Rev. Paul of Thebes and John Kuschnik.
Adoration of the chains that bound the Apostle Paul.
Righteous Maximus of Totemsky, presbyter.
Lent day.
Worship of the first hermit and monk Anthony the Great.
Reverend Anthony Dymsky.
Saints Athanasius and Cyril, Archbishops of Alexandria.
Reverend schemamonk Cyril and schemamonk Mary, parents of St. Sergius of Radonezh.
Lent day.
Fast days in January 2020
Multi-day fast in January 2020- The Advent Fast (multi-day) will begin on November 28, 2019 and will end only on January 6, 2020.
In the period from January 7 to January 19, there are no one-day fasts, since these days Christmas Christmas time is celebrated.
Church holidays, fasts, days of memory of saints in February 2020
Orthodox Church holidays in February 2020
Memorial Day of St. Macarius the Great of Egypt.
Memorial Day of St. Mark Eugenics, Archbishop of Ephesus.
Memorial Day of St. Euthymius the Great.
Venerable Euthymius the Schema and Lavrenty the Recluse, Caves, in the Far Caves.
Week of Zacchaeus.
Rev. Maximus the Greek.
Saint Maximus the Confessor.
"Hodegetria" of Xenofskaya; Ktitorskaya; "Slain"; "Joy" ("Consolation") Vatopedi - icons of the Mother of God.
Apostle Timothy.
Martyr Anastasius of Persyanin.
Memorial Day of St. Macarius Zhabynsky.
Hieromartyr Clement of Ancyra.
Cathedral of the Kostroma Saints.
Lent day.
Memorial Day of Blessed Xenia of Petersburg.
Venerable Xenia (in the world of Eusebia) of Milas, deaconess.
Celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God "Assuage My Sorrows".
Saint Gregory the Theologian.
Hieromartyr Vladimir, Metropolitan of Kiev.
Lent day.
Memorial Day of the Monk Xenophon of Robey, hegumen.
Venerable Simeon the Old, hegumen.
Week of the publican and the Pharisee in 2020. Beginning preparations for Great Lent.
Transfer of the relics of St. John Chrysostom.
Commemoration of the Council of New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church.
Venerable Ephraim the Syrian.
Memorial Day of St. Theodosius of Totemsky.
Celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God of Totem-Sumorinskaya.
Transfer of the relics of Holy Martyr Ignatius the God-bearer.
Saint Lawrence, recluse of the Caves, Bishop of Turov.
Cathedral of the Komi Saints.
Cathedral of Yekaterinburg Saints.
Blessed Pelagia of Diveevskaya (Serebrennikova).
Cathedral of the Ecumenical Teachers and Saints Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom.
Saint Nikita, recluse of the Caves, Bishop of Novgorod.
Prefeast of the Presentation of the Lord.
Memorial Day of the Martyr Tryphon.
Meeting of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Afterfeast of the Presentation of the Lord.
Cathedral of the Saints of the Perm Metropolis.
Equal-to-the-Apostles Nicholas (Kasatkin).
Celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God "Softener of Evil Hearts".
Week of the Prodigal Son.
Venerable Isidore of Pelusiot.
Saint Cyril of Novoezersky, miracle worker.
Blessed Prince George (Yuri) Vsevolodovich of Vladimir.
Saint Theodosius of Chernigov.
Celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God "Search for the Lost".
Celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God of Yelets-Chernigov.
Memorial Day of St. Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople.
Venerable Vukol of Smyrna.
Lent day.
Venerable Parthenius.
Venerable Luke of Greece.
Prophet Zechariah the Sickle-Seer of the 12 Minor Prophets.
Lent day.
The celebration of the feast of the Presentation of the Lord.
Martyr Nicephorus, from Antioch in Syria.
Uncovering the relics of St. Innokenty (Kulchitsky), Bishop of Irkutsk.
Uncovering the relics of St. Tikhon (Belavin), Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
Ecumenical parental (meatless) Saturday.
Memorial Day of the Blessed Princess Anna of Novgorod.
Righteous Galina.
Celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God "Fiery".
Meat week. About the Last Judgment
Blessed Prince Vsevolod, in Holy Baptism Gabriel of Pskov.
Rev. Demetrius of Prilutsky, Vologda.
Iberian Icon of the Mother of God.
Saint Alexis of Moscow.
Maslenitsa.
Saint Seraphim (Sobolev), Archbishop of Bogucharsky.
Venerable Martinian of Caesarea (of Palestine).
Cathedral of the Saints of the Omsk Metropolis.
Celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God of Dolis.
Maslenitsa.
Memorial Day of the Monk Auxentius of Vifinsky.
Equal-to-the-Apostles Cyril, teacher of Slovenian.
Maslenitsa.
Celebration of the Vilna Icon of the Mother of God.
Apostle Onesimus.
Maslenitsa.
All the venerable fathers who shone in the feat.
Saint Macarius (Nevsky), Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna.
Maslenitsa.
Church fasts in February 2020
Multi-day post in February 2020- is absent
Weeks with no post: Week of the publican and the Pharisee from February 9 to 15; Maslenitsa from February 24 to March 1.
Church holidays, fasts, days of memory of saints in March 2020
Orthodox Church holidays in March 2020
Conspiracy for Great Lent.
Hieromartyr Hermogenes, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, miracle worker.
Cheesy week. Memories of Adam's Exile. Forgiveness Sunday.
Maslenitsa.
Week 1 of Great Lent.
Memorial Day of Saint Leo, Pope of Rome.
Rev. Cosmas of Yakhroma.
Saint Agapit, confessor.
Lent day.
Week 1 of Great Lent.
Great canon of Andrew of Crete.
Apostles Archippus and Philemon and Martyr Equal-to-the-Apostles Apphia.
Venerable Theodore of Sanaksar.
Great Lent continues.
Week 1 of Great Lent.
Great canon of Andrew of Crete.
Venerable Leo, Bishop of Catania.
Martyrs of Valaam: Titus, Tikhon, Gelasius, Sergius, Varlaam, Savva, Konon, Sylvester, Cyprian, Pimen, John, Samon, Jonah, David, Cornelius, Nifont, Athanasius, Serapion, Barlaam, Athanasius, Anthony, Luke, Leonty, Thomas , Dionysius, Philip, Ignatius, Basil, Pachomius, Basil, Theophilus, John, Theodore, John.
Great Lent continues.
Week 1 of Great Lent.
Great canon of Andrew of Crete.
Venerable Timothy in Symbols.
Saint Eustathius, Archbishop of Antioch.
Celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God of Kozelshchanskaya.
Great Lent continues.
Week 1 of Great Lent.
Uncovering the relics of the martyrs, like Eugene.
Martyrs of Mauritius and 70 soldiers: Photin, Theodore, Philip and others.
Venerable Athanasius of Pavlopetria, Confessor.
Great Lent continues.
Week 1 of Great Lent.
Memorial Day of the Great Martyr Theodore Tyrone.
Holy Martyr Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna.
Uncovering the relics of the blessed Matrona of Moscow.
Celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos "Sokolskaya".
Great Lent continues.
Week 1 of Great Lent. Triumph of Orthodoxy
The first and second acquisition of the head of John the Baptist.
Celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God of Cyprus (Stromynskaya).
Great Lent continues.
Week 2 of Great Lent.
Saint Tarasius, Archbishop of Constantinople.
Great Lent continues.
Week 2 of Great Lent.
Memorial Day of St. Porphyry of Gaza.
Celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God of Mezhetskaya.
Great Lent continues.
Week 2 of Great Lent.
Venerable Procopius Dekapolit, Confessor.
Great Lent continues.
Week 2 of Great Lent.
Saint Basil the Decapolite.
Hieromartyr Arseny (Matseevich), Metropolitan of Rostov.
Great Lent continues.
Week 2 of Great Lent.
Memorial Day of St. Cassian (John Cassian) Roman, hieromonk.
Celebration of the icon of the Mother of God "Devpeteruvskaya".
Great Lent continues.
Week 2 of Great Lent. Commemoration of the dead.
Memorial Day of the Monk Martyr Evdokia of Iliopol, Abbess.
Great Lent continues.
Week 2 of Great Lent.
Celebration of the icon of the Mother of God, named "Reigning".
Memorial Day of St. Arseny, Bishop of Tver.
Great Lent continues.
3rd week of Great Lent.
Memorial Day of the Martyrs Eutropius, Cleonice and Basilisk.
Venerable Piama virgin.
Celebration of the icons of the Mother of God of Volokolamsk, the "Sign" of Zlatoust.
Great Lent continues.
3rd week of Great Lent.
Memorial Day of the Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow.
Great Lent continues.
3rd week of Great Lent.
Memorial Day of the Martyr Conon of Isauria.
Uncovering the relics of the noble princes Theodore Rostislavich Cherny, Smolensky and his children David and Konstantin, Yaroslavl miracle workers.
Honoring the icons of the Mother of God "Education".
Great Lent continues.
3rd week of Great Lent.
Commemoration of the 42 Martyrs in Amoraea: Constantine, Aetius, Theophilus, Theodore, Melissen, Callistus, Vasoya and others with them
Honoring the icons of the Mother of God "Czestochowa", "Shestokovskaya", "Blessed Sky".
Great Lent continues.
3rd week of Great Lent.
Memorial Day of the holy martyrs who episcopated in Chersonese: Basil, Ephraim, Kapiton, Eugene, Etherius, Elpidius and Agafodor.
Celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God "Guest of Sinners".
Great Lent continues.
3rd week of Great Lent. Commemoration of the dead.
Memorial Day of the Monk Theophylact the Confessor, Bishop of Nicomedia.
Celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God "The Sign" of the Kursk-Root.
Great Lent continues.
Week 3 of Great Lent, Holy Cross.
Feast of the 40 Martyrs of Sebaste.
Celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God "The Word Flesh" of Albazinskaya.
Great Lent continues.
Commemoration of the martyrs of Kodratus and others like him: Cyprian, Dionysius, Anekt, Paul, Kriskent, Dionysius, Quiz, Victor, Nicephorus, Claudius, Diodorus, Serapion (Serapion), Papias, Leonidas and the martyrs Hariessa, Nunechia, Vasilissa, Nike, Gali , Galina, Theodora and many others.
Great Lent continues.
Week 4 of Great Lent, Holy Cross.
Memorial Day of St. Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem.
Saint Euthymius, Archbishop of Novgorod, miracle worker.
Great Lent continues.
Week 4 of Great Lent, Holy Cross.
Memorial Day of St. Theophan the Confessor, Sigrian.
Saint Gregory the Dialogist, Pope of Rome.
Reverend Simeon the New Theologian, hegumen.
Celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God of Lydda (On a pillar in Lydda).
Great Lent continues.
Week 4 of Great Lent, Holy Cross.
Transfer of the relics of Saint Nicephorus the Confessor, Patriarch of Constantinople.
Celebration of the icon of the Mother of God of Moldavia.
Great Lent continues.
Week 4 of Great Lent, Holy Cross.
Memorial Day of St. Benedict of Nursia, hegumen.
Saint Theognost, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Russia.
Celebration of the icons of the Virgin of Feodorovskaya, Tenderness of Sebezhskaya (Opochetskaya), “Prisoner's Vertograd”.
Great Lent continues.
Week 4 of Great Lent, Holy Cross. Commemoration of the dead.
Memorial Day of the Martyr Agapius and with him the seven martyrs: Puplius, Timolaus (Timothy), Romil, Alexander, Alexander (another), Dionysius and Dionysius (another).
Great Lent continues.
Week 4 of Great Lent.
Memorial Day of St. John of the Ladder, hegumen of Sinai.
Martyr Savin of Ermopol.
Great Lent continues.
5th week of Great Lent.
Memorial Day of St. Alexis, man of God.
Reverend Macarius, hegumen of Kalyazinsky, miracle worker.
Great Lent continues.
5th week of Great Lent.
Memorial Day of St. Cyril, Archbishop of Jerusalem.
Great Lent continues.
Church fasts in March 2020
Multi-day fast in March 2020- starting March 2 Great post. The longest post in the modern Orthodox Church ..
One-day posts - no.
Church holidays, fasts, days of memory of saints in April 2020
Orthodox Church holidays in April 2020
5th week of Great Lent.
Celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God "Tenderness" of Smolensk.
Martyrs Chrysanthus and Darius, and with them the martyrs Claudius the tribune, Hilaria, his wife, Jason and Maurus, their sons, Diodorus the presbyter and Marian the deacon.
Righteous Sophia, Princess of Slutsk.
Venerable Simeon of the Pskov Caves.
Great Lent continues.
Saints John, Sergius, Patricius and others, who were slain in the monastery of Saint Sava.
Venerable Euphrosynus of Sinozero.
Martyrs Photina (Svetlana) the Samaritan woman, her sons the martyrs Victor, named Photin, and Josiah.
Martyrs of Anatolia, Photo, Photis, Paraskeva, Kyriakia, Domnina and Martyr Sebastian.
Martyrs Alexandra, Claudia, Euphrasia, Matrona, Juliania, Euphemia and Theodosia (Theodora).
Saint Nikita the Confessor, Archbishop of Apolloniades.
Great Lent continues.
Reverend Seraphim of Vyritsky.
Reverend James, Bishop of Catania.
Great Lent continues.
5th week of Great Lent. Praise of the Most Holy Theotokos (Saturday Akathist).
Celebration of Izborskaya, “I am with you, and no one is against you” (Leushinsky) - icons of the Mother of God.
Hieromartyr Basil, Presbyter of Ancyra.
Great Lent continues.
Venerable Martyr Nikon Bishop and 199 of his disciples.
Venerable Mary of Egypt.
Great Lent continues.
Week 6 of Great Lent (Week of Vay).
Prefeast of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos.
Reverend Zechariah the Open, monk.
Saint Artemy (Artemon), Bishop of Thessalonica (Seleucia).
Celebration of the icon of the Mother of God "Fat Mountain".
Great Lent continues.
Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos.
The Repose of St. Tikhon (Belavin), Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
Reverend Savva the New, hieromonk.
Celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God "Annunciation".
Commemoration of the Feast of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos.
Cathedral of the Archangel Gabriel.
Celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God "Meletinskaya".
Great Lent continues.
Memorial Day of the Martyr Matrona of Thessalonica.
Great Lent continues.
Saint Stephen the Wonderworker.
Venerable Hilarion the New, hegumen of Pelikite.
Great Lent continues.
Week 6 of Great Lent (Week of Vay). Lazarus Saturday.
Hieromartyrs Mark, Bishop of Arethusia, Cyril, deacon, and many others.
Resurrection of the Righteous Lazarus.
Great Lent continues.
Palm Week (Palm Sunday).
Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem.
Saint John of the Ladder, hegumen of Sinai.
Saint Sophronius, Bishop of Irkutsk.
Great Lent continues.
Passion Week. Great Monday.
Saint Jonah, Metropolitan of Kiev, Moscow and All Russia, miracle worker.
Hieromartyr Hypatius, Bishop of Gangra.
Saint Innocent (Veniaminov), Metropolitan of Moscow.
Great Lent continues.
Passion Week. Great Tuesday.
Reverend Mary of Egypt.
Saint Euthymius, Archimadrid of Suzdal, miracle worker.
Venerable Barsanuphius of Optina.
Great Lent continues.
Passion Week. Great Wednesday.
Saint Titus the Wonderworker.
Icon of the Mother of God "Key of Understanding".
Great Lent continues.
Passion Week. Maundy Thursday. Remembrance of the Last Supper.
Venerable Nikita the Confessor, hegumen of the Midician monastery.
Icon of the Mother of God "Fadeless Color".
Great Lent continues.
Passion Week. Good Friday. Commemoration of the Holy Saving Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Saint Joseph the Songwriter.
Venerable George, ilk in Malea.
Celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God "Gerontissa".
Great Lent continues.
Passion Week. Great Saturday.
Martyrs Agathopod, deacon, Theodulus, reader, and others like them.
Transfer of the relics of St. Job, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
Great Lent continues.
Holy Christ's Resurrection. Easter.
Memorial Day of St. Eutyches, Archbishop of Constantinople.
Memorial Day of Equal-to-the-Apostles Methodius, Bishop of Moravia.
Venerable Platonis of Syria.
120 Persian martyrs.
Bright Week is solid. Monday of Bright Week.
Venerable George the Confessor.
Reverend Daniel of Pereyaslavsky, Archimandrite.
Byzantine Icon of the Mother of God.
Bright Week is solid. Tuesday of Bright Week.
Celebration of the Iberian Icon of the Mother of God.
Apostles from 70 Rodion (Herodion), Agave, Asyncritus, Rufus, Flegont, Ermas (Ermia) and others like them.
Martyr Christodoulos and Martyr Anastasia of Patra, killed in Achaia.
Icons of the Mother of God "Hodegetria" of Shuiskaya, Spanish and "St. George".
Bright Week is solid. Wednesday of Holy Week.
Martyr Eupsychius of Caesarea.
Tsesarskaya; Kasperovskaya - icons of the Mother of God.
Bright Week is solid. Thursday of Holy Week.
Martyrs Terentius, Pompius, Africanus, Maximus, Zinon, Alexander, Theodore and 33 others.
Bright Week is solid. Friday of Bright Week.
Celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God "Life-Giving Spring".
Hieromartyr Antipas, Bishop of Pergamum of Asia.
Bright Week is solid. Saturday of Bright Week.
Saint Basil the Confessor, Bishop of Pariah.
Murom and Belynichskaya icons of the Mother of God.
Week 2 after Pascha (Antipascha), the Apostle Thomas.
Hieromartyr Artemon, Presbyter of Laodicea.
Celebration of the Icons of the Mother of God: Ozeryanskaya; "Sweet Kiss" ("Glycofilus").
Week 2 after Easter.
Saint Martin the First, Confessor, Pope.
Vilna and Ostrobramskaya Vilna Icons of the Mother of God.
Week 2 after Easter. Commemoration of the dead. Radonitsa.
Apostles from the seventy Aristarchus, Puda and Trofim.
Martyrs Agapia, Irene and Chionia.
Ilyinsk-Chernigov and Tambov Icons of the Mother of God.
Lent day.
Hieromartyr Simeon of Ctesiphon, Bishop of Persia, and with him the martyrs Avdelai and Ananias, presbyters, Khusdazat (Usfazan) the eunuch, Fusik, Azat, the martyr Ascitreya and many others.
Venerable Akakios, Bishop of Melitino.
Iberian Icon of the Mother of God.
Reverend Zosima, hegumen of Solovetsky.
Icons of the Mother of God "Deliverer" and "Hodegetria" Shuiskaya.
Church fasts in April 2020
Multi-day fasting in April 2020 - from March 2 to April 18, Great Lent continues and ends on April 18, 2020.
Church holidays, fasts, days of memory of saints in May 2020
Orthodox Church holidays in May 2020
Week 2 after Easter.
Maximovskaya Icon of the Mother of God.
The Monk John of Thessalonica and the disciple of the Monk Gregory the Decapolite.
Lent day.
Memorial Day of the Blessed Matrona of Moscow.
Saint John the Old Cave.
Week 3 after Pascha, holy myrrh-bearing women.
Venerable Theodore Trichina.
Holy myrrh-bearing women: Mary Magdalene, Mary Cleopova, Salome, Joanna, Martha and Mary, Susanna and others.
Saints Gregory and Anastasius the First of Sinai, Patriarchs of Antioch;
Righteous Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus.
Celebration of the Cypriot and Kipyazh Icons of the Mother of God.
Week 3 after Easter.
Hieromartyr Jannuarius, Bishop of Benevent, and with him the martyrs Proculus, Sossius and Faustus, the deacons, Disiderius, the reader, Eutychius and Akution.
Martyr Theodore, like in Perga, his mother, the martyr Philippi, the martyrs Dioscorus, Socrates and Dionysius.
Uncovering the relics of St. Theodore of Sanaksar.
Righteous Alexy of Bortsurmansky, presbyter.
Week 3 after Easter.
Venerable Theodore Sykeot, Bishop of Anastasiopol.
Week 3 after Easter.
Great Martyr George the Victorious.
The second acquisition of the copy of the Iberian Icon of the Mother of God.
Lent day.
Week 3 after Easter.
Memorial Day of the Martyr Savva Stratilat and 70 soldiers with him.
"Molchenskaya" Icon of the Mother of God.
Week 3 after Easter.
Apostle and Evangelist Mark.
Tsaregradskaya Icon of the Mother of God.
Lent day.
Week 3 after Easter. Commemoration of the deceased soldiers.
Saint Stephen, Bishop of Great Perm.
Hieromartyr Basil, Bishop of Amasia.
Week 4 after Easter, about the paralytic.
Apostle from the 70s and Hieromartyr Simeon of Jerusalem, a relative of the Lord.
4th week after Easter.
Apostles from the 70 Jason and Sosipater, the martyr Kerkyra the virgin and others who suffered with them.
Martyrs Dada, Maximus and Quintilian.
4th week after Easter.
The Nine Martyrs of Cyzic: Theognis, Rufus, Antipater, Theostichus, Artems, Magnus, Theodotos, Fawmasius and Philemon.
Venerable Memnon the Wonderworker, Abbot of Egypt.
Venerable Nektarios of Optina.
4th week after Easter.
Mid-Pentecost.
Apostle James Zebedee.
Uncovering the relics of St. Nikita, the recluse of Pechersk, Bishop of Novgorod.
Saint Ignatius (Bryanchaninov), Bishop of the Caucasus.
Mozdok (Iverskaya); Dubenskaya (Krasnogorsk) - icons of the Mother of God.
Lent day.
4th week after Easter.
Reverend Paphnutius of Borovsky.
Prophet Jeremiah.
"Unexpected Joy"; Tsarevokokshayskaya (Mironositskaya); Andronikovskaya and called "Unexpected Joy" - icons of the Mother of God.
4th week after Easter.
Saint Athanasius the Great, Archbishop of Alexandria.
Transfer of the relics of the faithful princes of the passion-bearers Boris and Gleb, in the holy Baptism of Roman and David.
Putivl and Vutivan Icons of the Mother of God.
Lent day.
4th week after Easter.
Martyr Timothy, Reader and Martyr Maura.
Venerable Theodosius, hegumen of the Kiev Caves.
Saint Peter, Wonderworker, Bishop of Argos.
Venerable Juliania and Eupraxia of Moscow.
Celebration of the icons of the Mother of God: Pechersk-Not Made by Hands; Yaskinskaya-Pecherskaya; Svenskaya (Pecherskaya); "Assumption" of the Kiev-Pechersk; Caves (with the upcoming Anthony and Theodosius).
5th week after Easter, O Samaritan.
Martyrs Pelagia.
Old Russian Icon of the Mother of God.
Week 5 after Easter.
Great Martyr Irene of Macedon.
Celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God "The Inexhaustible Chalice".
Week 5 of Easter.
Righteous Job the Long-suffering.
Week 5 after Easter.
Commemoration of the Feast of Mid-Pentecost.
Commemoration of the appearance in heaven of the Cross of the Lord in Jerusalem.
Martyr Akakios centurion.
Celebration of the Lyubech and Zhirovitskaya icons of the Mother of God.
Lent day.
Week 5 after Easter.
Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian.
Reverend Arseny the Great.
Week 5 after Easter.
Prophet Isaiah.
Martyr Christopher of Lycia.
Transfer of the relics of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker from the World of Lycia to Bar.
Reverend Joseph of Optina.
Celebration of the Perekop Icon of the Mother of God.
Lent day.
Week 5 after Easter.
Apostle Simon the Zealot.
Week 6 after Easter, about the blind man.
Hieromartyr Mokii.
Equal-to-the-Apostles Rostislav, Prince of Great Moravia.
Equal-to-the-Apostles Methodius and Cyril, teachers of Slovenia.
Week 6 after Easter.
Hieromartyr Hermogenes, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, miracle worker.
Saint Epiphanius, Bishop of Cyprus.
Saint Germanus, Patriarch of Constantinople.
Week 6 after Easter.
Martyrs Glyceria the virgin and with her the martyr Laodicea, guardian of the prison.
Week 6 after Easter.
Passover celebration.
Prefeast of the Ascension of the Lord.
Blessed Isidore, Christ for the sake of the holy fool, Wonderworker of Rostov.
Martyr Isidore of Chios.
Terebenskaya and Yaroslavl Caves Icons of the Mother of God.
Lent day.
Week 6 after Easter.
Ascension of the Lord.
Venerable Pachomius the Great.
Saint Isaiah, Bishop of Rostov, miracle worker.
Blessed Tsarevich Dimitry of Uglich and Moscow.
Week 6 after Easter.
Feast of the Ascension of the Lord.
Saint Theodore the Sanctified.
Transfer of the relics of Efrem Perekomsky, miracle worker of Novgorod.
Lent day.
Week 6 after Easter.
Apostle Andronicus and Saint Junia, his assistant.
Week 7 after Easter, Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council.
Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the Seven Ecumenical Councils.
Martyr Theodotos of Ancyra and the martyrs of the seven virgins: Alexandra, Tecusa, Claudia, Faina, Euphrasia (Euphrosinia), Matrona and Julia.
Martyrs Peter, Dionysius, Andrew, Paul and Martyr Christina.
Reverend Macarius of Altai.
Celebration of Cholnskaya (Chelnskaya); "Tenderness" of the Pskov-Pechersk - icons of the Mother of God.
Church fasts in May 2020
There are no multi-day posts in May 2020.
Weeks when there is no post - no.
Church holidays, fasts, days of memory of saints in June 2020
Orthodox Church holidays in June 2020
Week 7 of Easter.
Memorial Day of the Blessed Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoy.
Venerable Euphrosyne, in the world of Evdokia, Grand Duchess of Moscow.
Week 7 of Easter.
Uncovering the relics of St. Alexis, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia, miracle worker.
Martyrs Thalalea, Alexander and Asterius.
Week 7 of Easter.
Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God.
Equal-to-the-Apostles Tsar Constantine and his mother Queen Helena.
Blessed Prince Konstantin (Yaroslav) and his children Michael and Theodore, Miracle Workers of Murom.
Celebration of the icons of the Mother of God: Tupichevskaya-Rostovskaya; Vladimirskaya; Vladimirskaya (Zaonikievsky); Vladimirskaya (Rostovskaya); Syrkovskaya; Vladimir (Krasnogorsk, Montenegrin); Florishchevskaya; Vladimirskaya (Oranskaya); "Tenderness" of the Pskov-Pechersk.
Lent day.
Week 7 of Easter.
Memorial Day of the Martyr Basilisk.
Martyr John Vladimir, Prince of Serbia.
Righteous Jacob of Borovichi, Wonderworker of Novgorod.
Week 7 of Easter.
Commemoration of the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord.
Uncovering the relics of St. Leonty, Bishop of Rostov.
Cathedral of the Rostov-Yaroslavl Saints.
Lent day.
Week 7 of Easter. Trinity parental Saturday.
Glorification of Blessed Xenia of Petersburg.
Venerable Simeon the Stylite on the Marvelous Mountain.
Rev. Nikita, Stylite of Pereslavl.
Week 8 of Easter.
Day of the Holy Trinity. Pentecost.
The third acquisition of the head of the Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord John.
Day of the Holy Spirit (Spirits Day).
Memorial Day of the Apostles from 70 Karp and Alpheus.
Martyr George the New.
Celebration of the icons of the Mother of God: Cypriot; Tupichevskaya.
1st week after Pentecost. All Saints. Trinity week.
Uncovering the relics of St. Nil of Stolobensky.
Hieromartyr Ferapont.
Righteous John of Russia.
1st week after Pentecost. All Saints. Trinity week.
Saint Ignatius, Bishop of Rostov.
Reverend Elena Diveevskaya.
Saint Nikita the Confessor, Bishop of Chalcedon.
Celebration of the icons of the Mother of God "Be Thy Womb, Holy Meal" (Nicene), Antioch, Galich (Chukhloma).
1st week after Pentecost. All Saints. Trinity week.
Blessed John, Christ for the sake of the holy fool, Ustyug.
Uncovering the relics of St. Job, in the schema of Jesus, Anzersky.
Venerable Martyr Theodosius virgin.
Celebration of the icons of the Mother of God of Matelikia (Metelinskaya), Tsesarskaya-Borovskoy, “Guide of Sinners”, “Watching Eye”.
1st week after Pentecost. All Saints. Trinity week.
Memorial Day of St. Isaac.
Hieromartyr Vasily of Smolensk.
1st week after Pentecost. All Saints. Trinity week.
Honoring the icon of the Lugansk Mother of God.
Commemoration of the feast of Pentecost.
Apostle from 70 Hermas.
Martyr Hermias of Koman.
Celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God: Lugansk.
1st week after Pentecost. Cathedral of All Saints.
Martyrs Justin the Philosopher and another Justin, and with them Chariton, Charita, Evelpist, Hierax, Peon and Valerian.
Glorification of the Holy Righteous John of Kronstadt.
Venerable Dionysius, hegumen of Glushitsky.
Celebration of the icons of the Mother of God: "Softener of evil hearts" (Seven arrows); "Indestructible Wall"; "Unexpected Joy"; "Deliverance from the troubles of the afflicted"; "Mati Devo (Mati and Devo)"; Dektourskaya; "Blessed Sky"; "Blessed Womb"; "Live-giver"; Yasnoborskaya; "Softener of Evil Hearts".
2nd week after Pentecost. Beginning of the Apostolic Lent.
Great Martyr John the New, Sochavsky.
Saint Nikephoros the Confessor, Patriarch of Constantinople.
Kiev-Bratsk Icon of the Mother of God.
Lent day.
2nd week after Pentecost.
Martyrs Lucilliano, Claudius, Hypatius, Paul, Dionysius and Martyrs Pavla the Virgin.
Celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God "Hodegetria" Yugskaya.
Lent day.
2nd week after Pentecost.
Saint Methodius, hegumen of Peshnoshsky.
Saint Mitrofan, the first Patriarch of Constantinople.
Lent day.
2nd week after Pentecost.
Memorial Day of Hieromartyr Dorotheos, Bishop of Tyre.
Transfer of the relics of the faithful Grand Duke Igor (in Holy Baptism George) of Chernigov and Kiev.
Blessed Prince Theodore Yaroslavich (brother of Saint Alexander Nevsky), of Novgorod.
Igor Icon of the Mother of God.
Lent day.
2nd week after Pentecost.
Venerable Bessarion, Egyptian miracle worker.
Reverend Varlaam Khutynsky.
Pimenovskaya, "Sign" of the Kursk-Root, Tabynskaya - icons of the Mother of God.
Lent day.
2nd week after Pentecost.
Holy Martyr Theodotos of Ancyra.
Righteous Paul of Taganrog.
Cathedral of the Saints of the Ivanovo Metropolis.
Lent day.
2nd week after Pentecost. All the saints who shone in the Russian land.
Great Martyr Theodore Stratilates.
Saint Theodore, Bishop of Rostov.
Icons of the Mother of God of Uryupinsk, Yaroslavl, Hodegetria Kirillo-Belozersk.
Lent day.
3rd week after Pentecost.
Righteous Alexy of Moscow (Mechev).
Saint Cyril, Archbishop of Alexandria.
Saint Cyril, hegumen of Beloezersky.
Lent day.
3rd week after Pentecost.
Uncovering the relics of St. Basil, Bishop of Ryazan.
Memorial Day of St. John (Maximovich), Metropolitan of Tobolsk.
Cathedral of the Ryazan Saints.
Cathedral of the Siberian Saints.
Lent day.
3rd week after Pentecost.
Apostles Bartholomew and Barnabas.
Icons of the Mother of God "It is worthy to eat".
Lent day.
3rd week after Pentecost.
Reverend Peter of Athos.
Venerable Onufry the Great.
Lent day.
3rd week after Pentecost.
Martyrs Akilina.
Reverend Alexandra Diveevskaya.
Saint Triphyllius, Bishop of Leukusia of Cyprus.
Lent day.
3rd week after Pentecost.
Prophet Elisha.
Saint Methodius, Patriarch of Constantinople.
Cathedral of the Diveevo Saints.
Lent day.
3rd week after Pentecost.
Saint Jonah, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia, miracle worker.
Memorial Day of the Prophet Amos.
Lent day.
4th Week after Pentecost.
Reverend Tikhon of Medynsky, Kaluga.
Transfer of the relics of St. Theophan, the Hermit Vyshensky.
Lent day.
4th Week after Pentecost.
Commemoration of the martyrs Manuel, Savel and Ismail of Persia.
Post day.
Church fasts in June 2020
Multi-day fast in June 2020 - Apostolic fast. Starts June 15, 2020 and runs through July 11. This post can be classified as not too strict.
Church holidays, fasts, days of memory of saints in July 2020
Orthodox Church holidays in July 2020
4th Week after Pentecost.
Martyrs Leonty, Hypatia and Theodula.
Bogolyubskaya Icon of the Mother of God.
4th Week after Pentecost.
Apostle Jude, brother of the Lord.
St. John, Wonderworker of Shanghai and San Francisco.
Saint Job, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
4th Week after Pentecost.
Hieromartyr Methodius, Bishop of Patara.
Saint Mina, Bishop of Polotsk.
Blessed Prince Gleb Vladimirsky.
Modena (Kosinskaya) Icon of the Mother of God.
The Apostolic (Petrov) fast continues.
4th Week after Pentecost.
Martyr Julian of Tarsus.
Uncovering the relics of St. Maximus the Greek.
The Apostolic (Petrov) fast continues.
4th week after Pentecost.
Hieromartyr Eusebius, Bishop of Samosata.
Commemoration of the Cathedral of the Reverend Fathers of the Pskov Caves.
Kazan Korobeinikovskaya Icon of the Mother of God.
The Apostolic (Petrov) fast continues.
5th week after Pentecost.
Celebration of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God.
Commemoration of the Cathedral of Vladimir Saints.
The Apostolic (Petrov) fast continues.
5th week after Pentecost.
Nativity of John the Baptist (Forerunner).
The Apostolic (Petrov) fast continues.
5th week after Pentecost.
Venerable Martyr Fevronia the Virgin.
Feast of Peter and Fevronia of Murom. Blessed Prince Peter, in monasticism David, and Princess Fevronia, in monasticism Euphrosyne, Miracle Workers of Murom.
The Apostolic (Petrov) fast continues.
5th week after Pentecost.
Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God.
Saint David of Thessalonica.
The Apostolic (Petrov) fast continues.
5th week after Pentecost.
Uncovering the relics of St. Ambrose of Optina.
Righteous Myrrhbearing Joanna.
Rev. Sampson the pilgrim.
The Apostolic (Petrov) fast continues.
5th week after Pentecost.
The Transfer of the Relics of the Unmercenary Martyrs and Wonderworkers Cyrus and John.
St. Sergius and Herman, Wonderworkers of Valaam.
Celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God of Three Hands.
The Apostolic (Petrov) fast continues.
5th week after Pentecost.
Feast of the Apostles Peter and Paul.
Celebration of the icons of the Mother of God of Kasperovskaya, Dunilovskaya.
6th Week after Pentecost.
Cathedral of the Glorious and All-Praise 12 Apostles.
Commemoration of the Cathedral of Saints of the Birobidzhan diocese.
Gorbanevskaya, Balykinskaya and Volynskaya icons of the Mother of God.
6th Week after Pentecost.
Besrebrenikov Cosmas and Damian, victims in Rome.
Martyr Potit Gargarsky.
6th Week after Pentecost.
The position of the honest robe of the Most Holy Theotokos in Blachernae.
Celebration of the icons of the Mother of God of Pozhaiskaya, Akhtyrskaya, Feodotievsky, the Tree of Jesse.
Lent day.
6th Week after Pentecost.
Transfer of the relics of St. Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia, miracle worker.
Martyr Iakinf of Rome.
6th Week after Pentecost.
Commemoration of the Holy Royal Martyrs: Tsar - Martyr Nicholas II and others like him killed.
Reverend Andrei Rublev, icon painter.
Galata Icon of the Mother of God.
Lent day.
6th Week after Pentecost.
Venerable Athanasius of Athos.
Finding the relics of St. Sergius, hegumen of Radonezh.
Martyr Grand Duchess Elizabeth.
"Economissa" ("Housebuilder") Icon of the Mother of God.
6th week after Pentecost.
Cathedral of the Radonezh Saints.
Venerable Sisoy the Great.
"Valaam"; Kazan (Bogorodsko-Ufa) icons of the Mother of God.
7th week after Pentecost.
Memorial Day of St. Euphrosyne, in the world of Eudoxia, Grand Duchess of Moscow.
Venerable Akaki of Sinai.
Saint Thomas, Malein.
Celebration of the Blachernae Icon of the Mother of God.
7th week after Pentecost.
The Appearance of the Kazan Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (in the city of Kazan).
Memorial Day of the Great Martyr Procopius.
Righteous Procopius, Wonderworker of Ustyug.
"Annunciation" Ustyugskaya; Kazan Icon of the Mother of God.
7th week after Pentecost.
Hieromartyr Pankratius, Bishop of Tauromenia.
Celebration of the icons of the Mother of God of Kolochskaya, Cypriot (Stromynskaya).
Lent day.
7th week after Pentecost.
The Position of the Precious Robe of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Moscow.
Venerable Anthony of the Kiev Caves, chief of all Russian monks.
Celebration of the Konevskaya Icon of the Mother of God.
7th week after Pentecost.
Commemoration of the miracle of the Great Martyr Euphemia the All-Praised, by whom Orthodoxy was established.
Equal-to-the-Apostles Olga, Grand Duchess of Russia, in Holy Baptism Elena.
Celebration of the icons of the Mother of God of Borkolabovskaya, Rudnenskaya Ratkovskaya, Okovetskaya Rzhevskaya.
Lent day.
7th week after Pentecost.
Memorial Day of the Martyrs Proclus and Hilarius.
Reverend Michael Malein, hegumen.
Icon of the Mother of God Three-Handed, Self-written.
7th week after Pentecost.
Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the Six Ecumenical Councils.
Cathedral of the Archangel Gabriel.
Reverend Stephen Savvait.
8th week after Pentecost.
Apostle from 70 Akila.
Reverend Nikodim the Holy Mountaineer.
Celebration of the Elisavetgrad Icon of the Mother of God.
8th week after Pentecost.
Equal-to-the-Apostles Grand Duke Vladimir.
Commemoration of the Cathedral of the Kiev Saints.
Martyr Kirikos and Martyr Julitta.
8th week after Pentecost.
Memorial Day of the Hieromartyr Athenogenes and ten of his disciples.
Celebration of the Pskov Icon of the Mother of God of Chir.
Lent day.
8th week after Pentecost.
Celebration of the Svyatogorsk Icon of the Mother of God.
Great Martyr Marina (Margaret).
8th week after Pentecost.
Martyr Emilian Dorostolsky.
Martyr Iakinf of Amastris.
Lent day.
Church fasts in July 2020
Multi-day fast in July 2020- Continuation of Petrov Lent until July 11 (Petrov Lent begins June 15, 2020 and lasts until July 11). This post can be classified as not too strict.
Church holidays, fasts, days of memory of saints in August 2020
Orthodox Church holidays in August 2020
8th week after Pentecost.
Uncovering the relics of St. Seraphim, Sarov miracle worker.
Cathedral of the Kursk Saints.
Icons of the Mother of God Tenderness Serafimo-Diveevskaya.
8th week after Pentecost.
Day of the Prophet Elijah.
Reverend Abraham of Galich, Chukhloma, hegumen.
Icons of the Mother of God of Galich, "Sign" Abalatskaya, Orsha.
9th week after Pentecost.
Prophet Ezekiel.
Venerable Simeon of Palestine and John.
9th week after Pentecost.
Myrrh-bearing Mary Magdalene Equal-to-the-Apostles.
Transfer of the relics of the holy martyr Phocas.
9th week after Pentecost.
Martyrs Trofim, Theophilus and with them 13 martyrs.
Glorification of the righteous warrior Feodor Ushakov.
Pochaev Icon of the Mother of God.
Celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow".
Lent day.
9th week after Pentecost.
Martyr Christina.
Blessed Princes Strathorpians Boris and Gleb, in the holy Baptism of Roman and David.
9th week after Pentecost.
Dormition of Righteous Anna, mother of the Most Holy Theotokos.
Holy Wives of Olympias, Deaconesses and Venerable Eupraxia the Virgin of Tavenna.
Reverend Macarius Zheltovodsky, Unzhensky.
Lent day.
9th week after Pentecost.
Hieromartyrs Yermolai, Hermipp and Hermocrates, Priests of Nicomedia.
Reverend Moses Ugrin.
9th Week after Pentecost
Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon.
Reverend Herman of Alaska.
Commemoration of the Cathedral of the Smolensk Saints.
Lent day.
Celebration of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God, called Hodegetria (Guide).
Cathedral of the Tambov Saints.
10th week after Pentecost.
Martyr Kallinikos of Cilicia.
Nativity of St. Nicholas, Archbishop of the World of Lycia, Wonderworker.
Venerable Korstantin and Kosma Kosinsky.
10th week after Pentecost.
Martyr John the Warrior.
Venerable Anatoly II of Optina, the Younger.
Apostles from the 70 Powers, Silouan, Kriskent, Epenet and Andronicus.
Celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God Okonskaya.
Commemoration of the Cathedral of Samara Saints.
Lent day.
10th Week after Pentecost, Conspiracy for the Dormition Fast.
The Feast of the Presentation of the Honorable Trees of the Life-Giving Cross of the Lord.
Hieromartyr Benjamin, Metropolitan of Petrograd.
Righteous Evdokim the Cappadocian.
10th week after Pentecost.
Issuance of the precious woods of the Life-Giving Cross of the Lord.
Feast of the All-Merciful Savior and the Most Holy Theotokos.
The Seven Martyrs of Maccabees: Avim, Antonina, Guriy, Eleazar, Evsevon, Alim and Markella, their mother the martyr Solomonia (Salome) and their teacher the martyr Eleazar.
Lent day.
Honey Spas.
Assumption fast begins.
10th week after Pentecost.
The transfer of the relics of the First Martyr Archdeacon Stephen from Jerusalem to Constantinople and the acquisition of the relics of the righteous Nicodemus, Gamaliel and his son Aviv.
Blessed Basil, Moscow miracle worker.
Achair Icon of the Mother of God.
Lent day.
10th week after Pentecost.
Venerable Anthony the Roman, Wonderworker of Novgorod.
Saints Isaac, Dalmat and Faustus.
Lent day.
The seven youths who are in Ephesus.
Uncovering the relics of the righteous Alexis of Bortsurmansky, presbyter.
Celebration of the Kazan (Penza) Icon of the Mother of God.
Lent day.
11th week after Pentecost.
Prefeast of the Transfiguration of the Lord.
Reverend Martyr Job Ushchelsky.
Hieromartyrs Arfira and Favius.
Lent day.
11th week after Pentecost.
Transfiguration of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Apple Spas.
Lent day.
11th week after Pentecost.
Afterfeast of the Transfiguration of the Lord.
Uncovering the relics of St. Mitrofan, Bishop of Voronezh.
Venerable Martyr Dometius the Persian, hierodeacon, and two of his disciples.
Lent day.
11th week after Pentecost.
Saint Emilian the Confessor, Bishop of Cyzicus.
Transfer of the relics of Saints Zosima and Savvaty of Solovetsky.
Saint Myron the Wonderworker.
Celebration of the Tolga Icon of the Mother of God.
Lent day.
11th week after Pentecost.
Apostle Matthias.
Cathedral of the Solovetsky Saints.
Lent day.
11th week after Pentecost.
Hieromartyrs Lawrence, Archdeacon, Sixtus II, Pope of Rome, Felicissimus and Agapitus, Deacons, Martyrs Romanus of Rome.
Blessed Lawrence, Christ for the holy fool, Kaluga.
Cathedral of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Solovetsky.
Cathedral of the Valaam Saints.
Lent day.
Martyr Archdeacon Euplas.
Lent day.
12th week after Pentecost.
Martyrs Photius and Anikita and many with them.
Lent day.
12th week after Pentecost.
Commemoration of the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord.
The Repose and the Second Finding of the Relics of St. Tikhon, Wonderworker of Zadonsk.
Repose and transfer of the relics of St. Maximus the Confessor.
Uncovering the relics of Blessed Maxim, Christ for the sake of the holy fool, Moscow miracle worker.
Celebration of the icons of the Mother of God "Softener of evil hearts" (Seven-shot), "Passionate", Minsk.
Lent day.
12th week after Pentecost.
Feast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos.
Transfer of the relics of St. Theodosius of the Kiev Caves.
Prophet Micah.
Celebration of the Icons of the Mother of God of Besednaya and Narva.
Lent day.
12th week after Pentecost.
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Lent day.
12th week after Pentecost.
Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos.
Bread Savior, also referred to as Nut Savior or Savior on canvas.
Transfer from Edessa to Constantinople of the Image Not Made by Hands (Ubrus) of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Celebration of the "Triumph of the Most Holy Theotokos"; Feodorovskaya Icon of the Mother of God.
12th week after Pentecost.
Holy Hieromartyr Myron of Cyzic, presbyter.
Reverend Pimen of Ugreshsky.
Armati; Svenska Icon of the Mother of God.
Martyrs Florus and Laurus.
Celebration of Hodegetria of Trebizond; The Tsaritsa - icons of the Mother of God.
Church fasts in August 2020
Multi-day fast in August 2020 - Assumption fast. The beginning of abstinence begins on August 14 and continues until August 28, 2020 - Strict fasting, which begins with the celebration of the Honey Savior and continues until the bright feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Church holidays, fasts, days of memory of saints in September 2020
Orthodox Church holidays in September 2020
13th week after Pentecost.
Don Icon of the Mother of God.
Martyr Andrew Stratilates and 2593 martyrs with him.
13th week after Pentecost.
Memorial Day of the Prophet Samuel.
Martyrs Severus and Memnon and with them 37 martyrs.
Lent day.
13th week after Pentecost.
Martyrs Vassa and her children, the martyrs Theognius, Agapius and Pista.
Venerable Avramius, miracle worker of Smolensk.
Reverend Martha of Diveevskaya.
Apostle from 70 Thaddeus.
Celebration of the Light-Painted Image of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
13th week after Pentecost.
Memorial Day of St. Isaac of Optina.
Martyrs Agathonikos, Zotikos, Theoprepios (Bogolep), Akindinos, Severian and others.
Hieromartyr Gorazd (Pavlik), Bishop of Czech and Moravian-Silesian.
Georgian Icon of the Mother of God.
Lent day.
13th week after Pentecost.
Commemoration of the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Martyr Lupp of Thessalonica.
13th week after Pentecost.
Transfer of the relics of St. Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow, Wonderworker of All Russia.
Memorial Day of Hieromartyr Eutychius, disciple of John the Theologian.
Equal-to-the-Apostles Cosmas of Aetolia, hieromonk.
Commemoration of the Cathedral of Moscow Saints.
Celebration of the Peter's Icon of the Mother of God.
Return of the relics of the Apostle Bartholomew.
Apostle from 70 Titus, Bishop of Crete.
14th week after Pentecost.
Meeting of the Vladimir Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
Memorial Day of Martyr Adrian and Martyr Natalya.
Blessed Mary of Diveevskaya (Fedina).
Celebration of the icons of the Mother of God of Vladimir, Tenderness of the Pskov-Caves, Vladmirskaya-Yelets.
14th week after Pentecost.
Rev. Pimen the Great.
Lent day.
14th week after Pentecost.
Uncovering the relics of St. Job, abbot and miracle worker of Pochaev.
Cathedral of the Reverend Fathers of the Kiev Caves, resting in distant caves.
Memorial Day of the Monk Moses Murin.
14th week after Pentecost.
The Beheading of the Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord John.
Lent day.
14th week after Pentecost.
Transfer of the relics of Prince Alexander Nevsky.
Uncovering the relics of the faithful Prince Daniel of Moscow.
Memorial Day of Saints Alexander, John the Faster and Paul the New.
14th week after Pentecost.
The position of the honest belt of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Transfer of the relics of the noble princes Peter (monastic David) and Fevronia (monastic Euphrosyne), Miracle Workers of Murom.
Hieromartyrs Mikhail Kosukhin and Miron Rzhepik, presbyters.
Commemoration of the Cathedral of the Nizhny Novgorod Saints.
Commemoration of the Cathedral of the Saratov Saints.
The beginning of the indiction is the church new year.
Memorial Day of Simeon the Stylite and Martha of Cappadocia.
Celebration of the icons of the Mother of God "All-blessed", August, Alexandria, Miasinsk, Chernihiv-Gethsemane.
15th week after Pentecost.
Saints Anthony and Theodosius of the Kiev Caves.
Martyrs Mamant, his father Theodotos and mother of the martyr Rufina.
Saint John the Faster, Patriarch of Tsaregrad.
Kaluga Icon of the Mother of God.
15th week after Pentecost.
Hieromartyrs Anthimos, Bishop of Nicomedia, and with him Theophilus, deacon, martyrs Dorotheus, Mardonius, Migdonius, Peter, Indis, Gorgonius, Zeno, martyr Domna the virgin and martyr Euthymius.
Venerable Theoktist of Palestine, Companion of Euthymius the Great.
Martyr Vasilisa of Nicomedia.
Blessed John the Haired One, Wonderworker of Rostov.
Pisidian Icon of the Mother of God.
Lent day.
15th week after Pentecost.
Uncovering the relics of St. Joasaph, Bishop of Belgorod.
Commemoration of the Cathedral of the Voronezh Saints.
Icons Burning Bush.
15th week after Pentecost.
Prophet Zechariah and Righteous Elizabeth, parents of St. John the Baptist.
Martyr Athanasius of Brest, hegumen.
Orsha Icon of the Mother of God.
Lent day.
15th week after Pentecost.
Mikhailovo Miracle- a memory of the miracle of the Archangel Michael, who was in Khonekh (Colossae).
Arapetskaya; Kiev-Bratsk Icon of the Mother of God.
15th week after Pentecost, before the Exaltation.
Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Saint John, Archbishop of Novgorod.
Martyr Sozontes of Pompeol.
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Celebration of the icons of the Mother of God: Pochaevskaya, "Nativity of the Virgin", Domnitskaya, Kholmskaya, Sofia - the Wisdom of God, "Sign" Kursk-Root, Lesninskaya, Khlebnaya.
16th week after Pentecost.
Afterfeast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos.
Righteous Father of God Joachim and Anna.
Martyr Severian of Sebaste.
Saint Joseph, hegumen of Volotsk, wonderworker.
Finding and transfer of the relics of St. Theodosius, Archbishop of Chernigov.
16th week after Pentecost.
Martyrs Minodora, Mitrodora and Nymphodora.
Commemoration of the Lipetsk Saints Cathedral.
Lent day.
16th week after Pentecost.
Transfer of the relics of St. Sergius and Herman, Wonderworkers of Valaam.
Saint Silouan of Athos.
Venerable Theodora of Alexandria the Younger.
Kazan (Kaplunov) Icon of the Mother of God.
16th week after Pentecost.
Commemoration of the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Hieromartyr Autonomus of Italy, Bishop.
Reverend Athanasius Vysotsky.
Boyanovskaya Icon of the Mother of God.
Lent day.
16th week after Pentecost. Saturday before Exaltation.
Commemoration of the renovation (consecration) of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Jerusalem.
Prefeast of the Exaltation of the Holy and Life-Giving Cross of the Lord.
Hieromartyr Cornelius the Centurion, Bishop.
Dubovichi Icon of the Mother of God.
16th week after Pentecost.
Exaltation of the Holy Cross of the Lord.
Repose of John Chrysostom.
Celebration of the icons of the Mother of God of the Black Cross, Loretskaya, Lesninskaya.
Lent day.
Afterfeast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.
Great Martyr Nikita of Gotf.
Novonikitskaya Icon of the Mother of God.
17th week after Pentecost.
Great Martyr Euphemia the All-Praised.
Transfer of the relics of Righteous Alexy of Moscow.
Celebration of the Icons of the Mother of God "Look at Humility" and "The Sign" Kamenskaya.
17th week after Pentecost.
Martyrs Faith, Hope, Love and their mother Sophia.
Celebration of the icons of the Mother of God of Tsaregradskaya, Makaryevskaya.
Lent day.
Church fasts in September 2020
One-day fasts - September 2, September 4, September 9, September 11, September 16, September 18, September 23, September 25, September 27, September 30.
Church holidays, fasts, days of memory of saints in October 2020
Orthodox Church holidays in October 2020
17th week after Pentecost.
Memorial Day of St. Eumenius.
Venerable Euphrosyne of Suzdal.
Reverend Hilarion of Optina.
Molchenskaya, Healer, and the Old Russian Icons of the Mother of God.
17th week after Pentecost.
Blessed Princes Theodore of Smolensk and his children David and Konstantin, Yaroslavl miracle workers.
Martyrs Trofim, Savvaty and Dorimedon.
Reverend Alexy Zossimovsky.
Lent day.
17th week after Pentecost. Saturday after Exaltation.
Great Martyrs Eustathius Plakida, his wife Theopistia and their children Agapius and Theopist.
Martyrs and confessors Michael, Prince of Chernigov, and his boyar Theodore, miracle workers.
Week 17 after Pentecost, after the Exaltation.
The celebration of the feast of the Exaltation of the Life-Giving Cross of the Lord.
Uncovering the relics of St. Demetrius of Rostov.
Apostle from 70 Kodrates.
Prophet Jonah.
Hieromartyr Phocas of Sinop.
Cathedral of the Tula Saints.
Celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God "The Listener".
18th week after Pentecost.
Conception of the honest, glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord John.
Glorification of Saint Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow.
Slovenian, Iberian Hawaiian, Myrrh-streaming - icons of the Mother of God.
18th week after Pentecost.
First Martyr Equal-to-the-Apostles Thekla.
Mirozhskaya Icon of the Mother of God.
Lent day.
18th week after Pentecost.
Repose of St. Sergius of Radonezh, wonderworker of all Russia.
Venerable Euphrosyne of Alexandria.
18th week after Pentecost.
The Repose of the Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian.
Saint Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
Lent day.
18th week after Pentecost.
Reverend Savvaty of Solovetsky.
Martyrs of Callistratus and his retinue: Gymnasium and others.
Hieromartyr Peter, Metropolitan of Krutitsy.
18th week after Pentecost.
Venerable Khariton the Confessor.
Venerable Schemamonk Cyril and Schemanun Mary.
Cathedral of the Reverend Fathers of the Kiev Caves, resting in the Near Caves.
Venerable Cyriacus the Hermit.
19th week after Pentecost.
Saint Michael, the first Metropolitan of Kiev and All Russia.
Hieromartyr Gregory Bishop, Enlightener of Greater Armenia.
Venerable Gregory of Pel'shemsky, Wonderworker of Vologda.
19th week after Pentecost.
Protection of Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos.
Reverend Roman the Melodist, deacon.
Reverend Savva of Vishera, Novgorod.
Apostle from 70 Ananias.
Celebration of the icons of the Mother of God Kasperovskaya, Myatinskaya, Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos, Gerbovetskaya, Bravetskaya, Lublinskaya, Pskov-Pokrovskaya.
Lent day.
19th week after Pentecost.
Hieromartyr Cyprian, Martyr Justina and Martyr Theoctistus.
Blessed Andrew, holy fool.
Righteous warrior Feodor Ushakov.
19th week after Pentecost.
Hieromartyrs Dionysios the Areopagite, Bishop of Athens, Presbyter Rusticus and Eleutherios the Deacon.
Trubchevskaya Icon of the Mother of God.
Lent day.
19th week after Pentecost.
Uncovering the relics of Saints Guriy, Archbishops of Kazan, and Barsanuphius, Bishop of Tver.
Hieromartyr Hierotheos of Athens.
Commemoration of the Cathedral of Kazan Saints.
19th week after Pentecost.
Saints Peter, Alexy, Jonah, Philip, Hermogenes and Tikhon, Wonderworkers of Moscow and All Russia.
Martyrs Haritina of Amisia.
Apostle Thomas.
Arapet Icon of the Mother of God.
20th week after Pentecost.
Martyrs Sergius and Bacchus.
Saint Jonah of Hankow, Bishop.
"Tenderness" of the Pskov-Pechersk Icon of the Mother of God.
20th week after Pentecost.
Venerable Pelagia of Antioch.
Cathedral of the Vyatka Saints.
Lent day.
20th week after Pentecost.
Apostle Jacob Alfeev.
Saints Adronikos and Athanasius.
Korsun Icon of the Mother of God.
20th week after Pentecost.
Saint Ambrose, Elder of Optina.
Saint Innocent, Bishop of Penza.
Cathedral of the Volyn Saints.
Martyr Eulampius and Martyr Eulampia.
Icon of the Mother of God "Forerunner".
Lent day.
20th week after Pentecost.
Cathedral of the Venerable Elders of Optina.
Apostle from 70 Philip.
Venerable Theophan the Confessor, creator of the canons.
Icon of the Mother of God "Water-giver".
20th week after Pentecost.
Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council.
Transfer from Malta to Gatchina of a part of the Tree of the Life-Giving Cross of the Lord, the Philermo Icon of the Mother of God and the right hand of John the Baptist.
Celebration of the icons of the Mother of God of Rudny, Mokhnatinsk, Kaluga, Jerusalem, Erman, Yaroslavl.
Iberian Icon of the Mother of God.
Hieromartyr Carp of Thyatira.
"Hodegetria" of the Sedmiezernaya Icon of the Mother of God.
21st week after Pentecost.
Venerable Paraskeva of Serbia.
Memorial Day of the Martyrs Nazarius, Gervasius, Protasius and Kelsius.
Yakhroma Icon of the Mother of God.
21st week after Pentecost.
Venerable Martyr Lucian of Antioch.
Venerable Euthymius the New.
Lent day.
21st week after Pentecost.
Martyr Longinus the centurion, ilk at the Cross of the Lord.
21st week after Pentecost.
Prophet Hosea.
Venerable Martyr Andrew of Crete.
Icons of the Mother of God "Before Christmas and after Christmas the Virgin", "The Redeemer".
Lent day.
21st week after Pentecost.
Apostle and Evangelist Luke.
Uncovering the relics of St. Joseph, hegumen of Volotsky (Volokolamsk), miracle worker.
Church fasts in October 2020
One-day posts - October 2, October 7, October 9, October 14, October 16, October 21, October 23, October 28, October 30.
Church holidays, fasts, days of memory of saints in November 2020
Orthodox Church holidays in November 2020
21st week after Pentecost.
Transfer of the relics of St. John of Rila.
Memorial Day of the Prophet Joel.
Martyr Uar of Egypt and with him seven Christian teachers.
Saint Gabriel of Samtavria, archimandrite.
Great Martyr Artemy of Antioch.
Righteous lad Artemy Verkolsky.
22nd week after Pentecost.
Venerable Hilarion the Great.
Transfer of the relics of Saint Hilarion, Bishop of Meglin.
22nd week after Pentecost.
Celebration of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God.
Memorial Day Equal-to-the-Apostles Averky the Wonderworker.
Seven youths, like those in Ephesus: Sts. Maximilian, Iamblichus, Martinian, Dionysius, Antoninus, Exacustodian (Constantine) and John.
Celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God Unexpected Joy.
Lent day.
22nd week after Pentecost.
Apostle James, brother of the Lord according to the flesh.
Blessed Jacob of Borovichi, Wonderworker of Novgorod (transfer of relics).
22nd week after Pentecost.
Reverend Zosima Verkhovsky.
Martyr Aretha and 4299 martyrs with him.
Lent day.
22nd week after Pentecost. Dimitriev parental Saturday.
Martyrs Marcian and Martypiy, Notaries of Constantinople.
Celebration of the Valkuri Icon of the Mother of God.
22nd week after Pentecost.
Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessalonica.
Remembrance of the great and terrible earthquake that took place in Constantinople.
Martyr Nestor of Thessalonica.
23rd week after Pentecost.
Paraskeva Pyatnitsa - the day of memory of the martyr Paraskeva, named Pyatnitsa.
Saint Arseniy the First, Archbishop of Serbia.
Rev. Job, Abbot of Pochaev.
Saint Demetrius, Metropolitan of Rostov.
23rd week after Pentecost.
Reverend Abraham, Archimandrite of Rostov.
Reverend Abraham the Recluse, presbyter and blessed Mary, his niece.
Venerable Martyr Anastasia of Rome.
Lent day.
23rd week after Pentecost.
Hieromartyr Zenobius and Martyr Zenobia.
Ozeryanskaya Icon of the Mother of God.
23rd week after Pentecost.
Martyr Epimach of Alexandria.
Apostles from 70 Stachia, Amplius, Urvan, Narcissus, Apellius and Aristobulus.
Lent day.
23rd week after Pentecost.
Besrebrenikov and wonderworkers Cosmas and Damian and their mother, the Monk Theodotia.
23rd week after Pentecost.
Martyrs Akindin, Pigasios, Affonios, Elpidiphoros, Anempodistos and others like them.
Celebration of the Hodegetria of the Shuya Icon of the Mother of God.
Martyrs Bishop Akepsimos, Presbyter Joseph and Deacon Aifal.
Renovation of the Church of the Great Martyr George the Victorious in Lydda.
24th week after Pentecost.
Venerable Ioannikios the Great.
Hieromartyrs Nikander and Ermey.
24th week after Pentecost.
Saint Jonah, Archbishop of Novgorod.
Martyr Galaktion and Martyr Epistimia.
Saint Tikhon Belavin, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
Fathers of the Local Council of the Russian Church in 1917-1918.
Lent day.
24th week after Pentecost.
Saint Paul the First, Patriarch of Constantinople, Confessor.
Repose of the Monk Varlaam Khutynsky.
24th week after Pentecost.
Venerable Lazarus of Galicia.
Martyrs Hieron, Hesychius, Nicander, Athanasius, Mamant, Barahia, Callinicus, Theagen, Nikon, Longinus, Theodore, Valery, Xanthus, Theodulus, Callimachus, Eugene, Theodochus, Ostrichius, Epiphanius, Maximian, Dukitius, Claudian, Theophilus, Gigantius, Dorotheus , Theodotos, Kastrikia, Anikita, Femelia, Eutychius, Hilarion, Diodotus and Amonita, in Melitina affected.
Celebration of the icon of the Mother of God "Vygranie".
Lent day.
24th week after Pentecost.
Cathedral of the Archangel Michael and other incorporeal Heavenly Powers.
24th week after Pentecost.
Martyrs Onesiphorus and Porphyry.
Reverend Matrona of Constantinople.
Venerable Theoktista of Paros.
Icons of the Mother of God, named "Skoroshlushnitsa".
Apostles from 70 Erast, Olympus, Rodion, Sosipater, Kuart (Kvart) and Tertius.
25th week after Pentecost.
Great Martyr Mina of Kotuan (Phrygian).
Martyr Vincent of Augustopolis (Zaragoza), deacon.
Blessed Maxim, Christ for the sake of the holy fool, Moscow miracle worker.
Martyr Victor and Martyr Stephanida.
Iberian Montreal; Myrrh-streaming icons of the Mother of God.
25th week after Pentecost.
Saint John the Merciful, Patriarch of Alexandria.
Reverend Nil the Faster.
Memorial Day of St. Nil the Myrrh-streaming.
Icon of the Mother of God "Merciful".
Lent day.
25th week after Pentecost.
Saint John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople.
25th week after Pentecost. Incantation for the Christmas post.
Conspiracy for the Christmas (Filippov) post (meat-empty).
Apostle Philip.
Lent day.
25th week after Pentecost.
Beginning of the Advent.
Martyrs and Confessors Guri, Samon and Aviv.
Reverend Paisius Velichkovsky.
Celebration of the Icons of the Mother of God Kupyatitskaya, Fragrant Color.
Lent day.
25th week after Pentecost.
Apostle and Evangelist Matthew.
Lent day.
Saint Gregory the Wonderworker.
Saint Nikon, hegumen of Radonezh, disciple of Saint Sergius.
Icons of the Mother of God "Union".
Lent day.
Church fasts in November 2020
Multi-day fast in November 2020 - Christmas fast. In 2020, this post will begin on November 28 and will continue until January 6, 2021.
One-day fasts - November 4, November 6, November 11, November 13, November 18, November 20, November 25, November 27.
Church holidays, fasts, days of memory of saints in December 2020
Orthodox Church holidays in December 2020
26th week after Pentecost.
Martyr Platon of Ancyra.
Martyrs Roman, deacon, and the youth Varul.
Cathedral of the Saints of the Estonian Land.
Christmas post.
26th week after Pentecost.
Prophet Obadiah.
Venerable Barlaam and Joasaph, prince of India, and his father Abner the king.
Saint Philaret, Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna.
Icon of the Mother of God "Consolation in Sorrows and Sorrows".
Christmas post.
26th week after Pentecost.
Prefeast of the Entry into the Temple of the Most Holy Theotokos.
Venerable Gregory Dekapolit.
Saint Proclus of Constantinople, Patriarch.
Icons of the Mother of God: "Sobolev".
Christmas post.
26th week after Pentecost.
Entry into the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos.
Christmas post.
26th week after Pentecost.
Afterfeast of the Entry into the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos.
Blessed Prince Mikhail of Tver.
Apostles from 70 Philemon and Archippus.
Christmas post.
26th week after Pentecost.
Saint Amphilochius, Bishop of Iconium.
Blessed Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky.
Saint Mitrofan, in schema Macarius, Bishop of Voronezh.
Christmas post.
Great Martyr Mercury.
Great Martyr Catherine.
Martyr Mercury of Smolensk.
Icons of the Mother of God of Bugabash.
Christmas post.
27th week after Pentecost.
Commemoration of the Feast of the Entry into the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos.
Hieromartyrs Clement of Rome, Pope of Rome, and Peter the Great of Alexandria, Archbishop.
Icons of the Mother of God - "The Nativity of the Virgin" Isaakovskaya, Dvinskaya.
Christmas post.
27th week after Pentecost.
Venerable Alypy the Stylite.
Saint Innocent, Bishop of Irkutsk.
Consecration of the Church of the Great Martyr George the Victorious in Kyiv.
Christmas post.
27th week after Pentecost.
Celebration of the icon of the Mother of God, called "The Sign".
Great Martyr James the Persian.
Saint James, Bishop of Rostov.
Venerable Palladius of Alexandria.
Christmas post.
27th week after Pentecost.
Martyr and Confessor Stephen the New.
Martyr Irinarch of Sebaste and the holy seven wives.
Hieromartyr Metropolitan Seraphim (Chichagov).
Christmas post.
27th week after Pentecost.
Martyr Paramon and 370 martyrs with him.
Reverend Akaki of Sinai, which is narrated in the Ladder.
Martyr Filumen of Ancyra.
Christmas post.
27th week after Pentecost.
Apostle Andrew the First-Called.
Christmas post.
Prophet Nahum.
Righteous Philaret the Merciful.
Martyr Ananias of Persia.
Christmas post.
28th week after Pentecost.
Prophet Habakkuk.
Icon of the Mother of God "Gerontissa".
Christmas post.
28th week after Pentecost.
Prophet Zephaniah.
Reverend Savva Storozhevsky (Zvenigorodsky).
Icons of the Mother of God of Pakhromskaya.
Christmas post.
28th week after Pentecost.
Great Martyr Barbara and Martyr Juliana.
Saint John of Damascus.
Saint Gennady, Archbishop of Novgorod.
Damascus Icon of the Mother of God.
Christmas post.
28th week after Pentecost.
Saint Savva the Sanctified.
Christmas post.
28th week after Pentecost.
Day of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, St. Nicholas, Archbishop of the World of Lycia.
Christmas post.
28th week after Pentecost.
Saint Ambrose, Bishop.
Reverend Nil of Stolobensky.
Venerable Anthony of Siya.
Icons of the Mother of God of Vladimir (Seliger).
Christmas post.
Reverend Patapius.
Christmas post.
29th week after Pentecost.
Conception of the Most Holy Theotokos by Righteous Anna.
Prophetess Anna, mother of the prophet Samuel.
Saint Sophronius, Archbishop.
Icon of the Mother of God "Unexpected Joy".
Christmas post.
29th week after Pentecost.
Martyrs Mina Kallikelad, Hermogenes and Evgraf.
Saint Joasaph, Bishop of Belgorod.
Christmas post.
29th week after Pentecost.
Venerable Daniel the Stylite.
Christmas post.
29th week after Pentecost.
Saint Spyridon, Bishop of Trimifunt, miracle worker.
Christmas post.
29th week after Pentecost.
Martyrs Eustratius, Auxentius, Eugene, Mardarius and Orestes.
Martyr Lucia of Syracuse.
Christmas post.
29th week after Pentecost. Holy Forefathers.
Martyrs Firsus, Leukia, Kallinikos.
Martyrs Philemon, Apollonius, Ariana and Theotichus.
Christmas post.
Saint Paul of Latria.
St. Stephen the Confessor, Archbishop of Sourozh.
Cathedral of the Crimean Saints.
Cathedral of the Kola Saints.
Christmas post.
30th week after Pentecost.
Prophet Haggai.
Christmas post.
30th week after Pentecost.
Prophet Daniel and three youths: Ananias, Azariah and Misael.
Christmas post.
30th week after Pentecost.
Martyrs Sebastian of Milan and his retinue: Nicostratus the Treasurer, his wife Zoe the Martyr, Martyr Kastorius, Hieromartyrs Tranquillinus, Presbyter, and his sons Marcellinus and Mark, Deacons, Martyrs Claudius, Chief of Prisons, his son Symphorianus, brother Victorinus, Tivurtius and Castulus.
Christmas post.
Church fasts in December 2020
The multi-day fast in December 2020 continues the Christmas fast throughout the month.
One-day posts There are no one-day posts.
Honoring Orthodox holidays is an integral part of the life of believers who strive to observe all the canons and religious rites. In this article, we will name and describe all church holidays in Russia in 2017 year, which almost completely coincide in dates with the church holidays of any other Orthodox country.
There are many different classifications of holidays in the church calendar. There is not much difference for an ordinary person which particular scheme to use in everyday life, since to be guided in when and what holiday according to the church calendar 2017 an inexpensive calendar bought in an icon shop of any Orthodox church will help.
But each calendar always uses one or another classification, so you need to know its meaning in order to behave correctly on the day of a religious celebration.
For convenience, we have conditionally divided all church holidays into five main groups. Some of them are divided into subgroups:
- Great Orthodox holidays
This group includes all the celebrations that Orthodox people consider the most important in comparison with the rest. These days, as a rule, they refuse worldly life, do not work, gather with their families at the table, go to church services, bless water, icons, and food.
- Twelfth Orthodox holidays
These identities also belong to the category of very important in the church calendar. They received the name Twelfth because they are included in the list of the 12 most valuable holidays for Orthodox people after Great Easter. They, in turn, are divided into:
- Passing holidays are those that change their date every year (the day of their celebration is counted from the date of the Great Resurrection of Jesus Christ).
- Non-transitory - having a permanent date.
- great posts
These are the days when you need to strictly refrain from eating. They are divided into two main subgroups:
- One-day fasts - restrictions that must be observed for no more than one day
- Multi-day fasts - fasts that need to be observed for weeks and even months
- Weeks
- Days of Remembrance of the Dead
These days, families gather for a meal at home, go to cemeteries to the graves of deceased relatives to commemorate them.
Calendar of church holidays 2017
Since the main church holidays were listed in the classification, for clarity, we transferred them to the calendar, indicating conditionally:
- Red numbers in the calendar mean important church holidays
- Days highlighted in pink are days of strict fasting
- The days marked with a black square are the days of commemoration of the dead
- The days highlighted in lilac are the days of non-strict fasting, when you can eat everything except meat and fish
- Days highlighted in light purple are every Saturday and Wednesday when fasting is required, even if it is not
- Days highlighted in red are great church holidays
Church holidays in January 2017
In January we will celebrate a lot of religious holidays. The very first and greatest celebration is the Nativity of Christ, which is celebrated annually January 7. From this day until the 17th, Christmas weeks will begin - days when, after a long and most difficult fast, you can afford to eat various meat dishes.
A week after Christmas - January 14- we are expecting an equally significant holiday - the Circumcision of the Lord. January 19- a holiday loved by the people - Epiphany frosts, when everyone jumps into the hole, drink strong drinks and sanctify the water. On this day, you can enjoy goodies after a one-day fast ( January 18) - Christmas Eve.
Church holidays in February 2017
The beginning of February will be associated with the week of the Publican and the Pharisee, which will last from 6 to 11 February. Then in the middle of the month (February, 15) the Orthodox people will celebrate the great feast of the Meeting of the Lord. 18th we will commemorate the memory of the deceased parents - this will be the Universal parental Saturday.
From 20 to 26 February we will gorge ourselves on pancakes during the Maslenitsa week, after which February 27 Lent will follow. It will last until Easter.
Church holidays in March 2017
The whole of March will last for Lent, which is the strictest of all. Indulgence in food will be allowed only on a few Saturdays of this month - March 11, 18 and 25. These will be the weeks of Great Lent.
Church holidays in April 2017
April is a month of great religious celebrations. 7 numbers Orthodox will celebrate the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. April 9 is one of the great religious holidays - this is the Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem, from which the week before Easter begins.
April 16 the entire Orthodox world will rejoice at the Great Feast of the Resurrection of God's son Jesus Christ - Easter. Joyful days - Easter week - will last seven days from 17 to 24 April. It will be replaced by the general memorial day Rodonitsa ( 25th of April).
Church holidays in May 2017
There are no special church celebrations in May. The exception is May 9- the day of commemoration of the fallen soldiers, and the great twelfth holiday May 25- Ascension of the Lord.
Church holidays in June 2017
June in the church calendar will begin with the memorial Trinity Saturday - June 3.June 4 the Great Trinity will be honored, after which the festive Trinity week will begin. It will end 12 June, and from that day a multi-day Apostolic fast will begin, which must be observed until until July 11th.
Church holidays in July 2017
July, despite the fact that fasting will last almost half a month, is full of religious holidays. July 7 Orthodox celebrate the Nativity of Ivan the Baptist, and 12th Saints Paul and Peter are venerated.
Church holidays in August 2017
August is also quite full of religious celebrations. From 14 to 27 August, of course, it will be necessary to observe the Assumption fast. 19th we will celebrate the great feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, and 28th, when the post is already completed, the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Church holidays in September 2017
In September, there are only three big church holidays, on each of which you must completely limit yourself to food. We are talking about the feast of the Beheading of John the Baptist ( 11 September) and the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary ( September 21) and the Exaltation of the Holy Cross ( September 27).
Church holidays in October 2017
October is also not full of church celebrations. October 14 Orthodox Christians will honor the annual Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos, which is considered one of the most important days in the religious calendar. 28 of October we will commemorate our deceased loved ones on Dmitrievskaya Saturday.
Church holidays in November 2017
In the end of November - 28th the big Christmas post will begin. There will be no other church holidays or significant days in November.
Church holidays in December 2017
All December until January 6 will continue fasting before Christmas. Also 4 numbers This month marks the Entry into the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos.
Video: Overview of the Orthodox calendar for 2017
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Christians all over the world are looking forward to the onset of January, because it is in this month that Christmas comes - a great and revered holiday by all Orthodox.
To believe in God, it is not necessary to go to church, but at the same time, you must know and remember the list of holidays that fall on a particular month. Find out which church holidays in January 2017, you can from the detailed Orthodox calendar below.
January 1, 2017 (Sunday)
- Memorial Day of Ilya Muromsky (Ilya the Wonderworker).
- Week before Christmas.
- Memorial Day of the Martyr Boniface of Tarsus.
- There is a Christmas post.
January 2, 2017 (Monday)
- Hieromartyr Ignatius the God-bearer.
- There is a Christmas post.
January 3, 2017 (Tuesday)
- Glorification of the Great Martyr Juliana.
- Feast of the Nativity of Christ.
- The Repose of Saint Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia, miracle worker.
- There is a Christmas post.
January 4, 2017 (Wednesday)
- Feast of the Nativity of Christ.
- Great Martyr Anastasia the Solver.
- There is a Christmas post.
January 5, 2017 (Thursday)
- Feast of the Nativity of Christ.
- Memorial Day of Hieromartyr Basil and Martyrs Macarius and John.
- Ten Cretan Martyrs.
January 6, 2017 (Friday)
- Eve of the Nativity of Christ (Christmas Eve).
- Memorial Day of the Martyr Eugenia and others like her.
- There is a Christmas post.
January 7, 2017 (Saturday)
- Nativity
- Christmas time
- Adoration of the Holy Magi: Melchior, Gaspard and Belshazzar.
January 8, 2017 (Sunday)
- Cathedral of the Holy Mother of God.
- Christmas time.
January 9, 2017 (Monday)
- Apostle of the First Martyr and Archdeacon Stephen.
- Christmas time.
January 10, 2017 (Tuesday)
- Memorial Day of 20,000 martyrs who suffered in Nicomedia.
- Christmas time.
January 11, 2017 (Wednesday)
- 14,000 infant martyrs, beaten by Herod in Bethlehem.
- Orthodox Joseph the Betrothed, King David and Jacob, brother of the Lord.
- Christmas time.
January 12, 2017 (Thursday)
- Saint Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow.
- Christmas time.
January 13, 2017 (Friday)
- The celebration of the feast of the Nativity of Christ.
- Memorial Day of St. Melania the Roman.
- Christmas time.
January 14, 2017 (Saturday)
- Circumcision of the Lord.
- Day of St. Basil the Great.
- Saturday before Epiphany.
- Christmas time.
January 15, 2017 (Sunday)
- The Feast of the Epiphany.
- Repose, the second acquisition of the relics of St. Seraphim, Sarov miracle worker.
- Christmas time
January 16, 2017 (Monday)
- Prefeast of the Epiphany
- Day of remembrance of the holy prophet Malachi. They predicted the appearance of the Savior, the Forerunner and the Last Judgment.
- Christmas time.
January 17, 2017 (Tuesday)
- The Feast of the Epiphany.
- Cathedral of the 70 Apostles.
- Christmas time.
January 18, 2017 (Wednesday)
- Eve of the Epiphany (Christmas Eve on the eve of Epiphany).
- On this day, a strict fast should be observed.
- Hieromartyr Theopemptus, Bishop of Nicomedia, and Martyr Theona Magus.
January 19, 2017 (Thursday)
- Holy Epiphany. Baptism of the Lord (Baptism of the Lord Jesus Christ).
January 20, 2017 (Friday)
- Cathedral of the honorable and glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord John.
- Lent day.
January 21, 2017 (Saturday)
- Saint Gregory, Wonderworker of the Caves
- Memorial Day of Saints George Khozevita and Emilian the Confessor.
- Saturday after Epiphany.
January 22, 2017 (Sunday)
- Saint Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia, miracle worker.
January 23, 2017 (Monday)
- Saint Theophan, the Hermit Vyshensky.
- Reverend Pavel Komelsky (Obnorsky).
January 24, 2017 (Tuesday)
- Venerable Theodosius the Great, chief of the general life.
- Reverend Michael of Klopsky, Novgorod.
January 25, 2017 (Wednesday)
- Tatyana's Day is the day of the Most Holy Martyr Tatyana, who suffered for her faith.
- Saint Sava, Archbishop of Serbia.
- Lent day.
January 26, 2017 (Thursday)
- Memorial Day of the Martyrs Ermil and Stratonik.
January 27, 2017 (Friday)
- The celebration of the feast of the Epiphany.
- Day of Equal-to-the-Apostles Nino, Enlightener of Georgia.
- Lent day.
January 28, 2017 (Saturday)
- Rev. Paul of Thebes and John Kuschnik.
January 29, 2017 (Sunday)
- Adoration of the chains that bound the Apostle Paul.
January 30, 2017 (Monday)
- Worship of the first hermit and monk Anthony the Great.
January 31, 2017 (Tuesday)
- Saints Athanasius and Cyril, Archbishops of Alexandria.
- Reverend schemamonk Cyril and schemamonk Mary, parents of St. Sergius of Radonezh.
In addition to church holidays in January, there are fasting days, which are also respected, honored and remembered by all believers. On such days, they deprive themselves of various foods, eating only those foods that the church allows.
Fast days in January 2017
- January 2017 Multi-Day Fast - The Advent Fast (Multi-Day Fast) will begin on November 28, 2016 and will end on January 6, 2017 only.
- One-day posts in January 2017 - January 18, January 20, January 25 and January 27.
- In the period from January 7 to 17, there are no one-day fasts, since these days are celebrated Christmas time
With the list of holidays that fall in January, we figured it out. Now I have come to talk about the most important and valuable days in the second winter month, which should be given special attention.
Nativity
At Christmas, the souls and hearts of Christians are filled with light, love and happiness. On this day, the Savior, Jesus Christ, was born, so everyone who honors and respects his laws should celebrate the holiday with dignity. At Christmas, it is customary to wish each other to get, all sorts of well-being and, of course, health. Many songs written specifically for this winter celebration praise the Lord, the Mother of God and Christ himself.
On the Holy Evening it is customary to visit each other, take the Holy Supper and regale the host and hostess with it. On this day, children go from house to house and carol, sing songs, recite poems.
Christmas is also famous for fortune-telling, which, as a rule, come true. From time immemorial, girls have been conducting Christmas fortune-telling to determine their fate, find out about their lover and find answers to a number of other questions.
Circumcision of the Lord
After birth, on the eighth day, Jesus Christ was circumcised - this was done with all newborn male babies. This holiday is also extremely important for the Orthodox Church.
January 14 is still familiar to all of us as the Old New Year. On this day, it is customary to say goodbye to everything that happened last year and hope for the best in the future. There is a tradition that is passed down from generation to generation.
From January 13 to 14, men come to the house to their relatives, friends or just neighbors to “sow” with special cereals, wish them all the best and health.
Baptism of the Lord or Holy Theophany
As the Gospel says, John the Baptist, a mere mortal who led one of the Jewish sects, performed a great sacred deed during his lifetime - he baptized the thirty-year-old Jesus Christ in the Jordan River.
During the baptism, a bright white light suddenly flashed and the Holy Spirit descended to earth in the form of a snow-white dove. And a loud voice was heard from heaven - that was the Lord himself speaking. He told that Jesus is his son and that his blessing lives in him. This holiday symbolizes the appearance of the Holy Trinity: God, his son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, who descended to the people in the form of a white dove.
After his baptism, Christ received an incredible gift and used it for the benefit of others.
The Feast of Epiphany throughout the history of its existence has been “overgrown” with many traditions, rituals and signs. Perhaps the most important and ancient tradition is swimming in the hole. From time immemorial, people went to the pond to swim in icy water, to wash away all sins from themselves, to gain health for the whole year. It was believed that on this day the water is energized and able to cure all kinds of diseases.
Tatyana's Day
Each saint has a special meaning for the Orthodox Church. These people were elevated to the rank of saints for a certain great deed, so they are remembered to this day.
On February 25, the church “given away” to the Holy Great Martyr Tatiana (Titian). She grew up and studied in the family of a noble Roman dignitary who secretly preached Christianity. The growing love for the Almighty gave Titiana the strength to do good throughout the earth. The young girl did not even want to get married, but devoted herself entirely to serving the church.
During the persecution to which Christians were subjected, they wanted to sacrifice the Holy Great Martyr Titiana to a pagan idol. But the woman's faith did not shake, for this Emperor Alexander Severus gave the order to torture Titiana. During such mockeries, the martyr did not betray her God and was faithful to him until her last breath.
By the way, it is Titiana who is considered the patroness of students, so January 25 is still familiar to us as Student's Day.
Christians around the world are looking forward to the onset of January, because it is in this month that Christmas comes - a great and revered holiday by all Orthodox.
To believe in God, it is not necessary to go to church, but at the same time, you must know and remember the list of holidays that fall on a particular month. Find out which church holidays in January 2017, you can from the detailed Orthodox calendar below.
Orthodox holidays in January 2017
January 1, 2017 (Sunday)
- Memorial Day of Ilya Muromsky (Ilya the Wonderworker).
- Week before Christmas.
- Memorial Day of the Martyr Boniface of Tarsus.
- There is a Christmas post.
January 2, 2017 (Monday)
- Hieromartyr Ignatius the God-bearer.
- There is a Christmas post.
January 3, 2017 (Tuesday)
- Glorification of the Great Martyr Juliana.
- Feast of the Nativity of Christ.
- The Repose of Saint Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia, miracle worker.
- There is a Christmas post.
January 4, 2017 (Wednesday)
- Feast of the Nativity of Christ.
- Great Martyr Anastasia the Solver.
- There is a Christmas post.
January 5, 2017 (Thursday)
- Feast of the Nativity of Christ.
- Memorial Day of Hieromartyr Basil and Martyrs Macarius and John.
- Ten Cretan Martyrs.
January 6, 2017 (Friday)
- Eve of the Nativity of Christ (Christmas Eve).
- Memorial Day of the Martyr Eugenia and others like her.
- Goes.
January 7, 2017 (Saturday)
- Nativity
- Christmas time
- Adoration of the Holy Magi: Melchior, Gaspard and Belshazzar.
January 8, 2017 (Sunday)
- Cathedral of the Holy Mother of God.
- Christmas time.
January 9, 2017 (Monday)
- Apostle of the First Martyr and Archdeacon Stephen.
- Christmas time.
January 10, 2017 (Tuesday)
- Memorial Day of 20,000 martyrs who suffered in Nicomedia.
- Christmas time.
January 11, 2017 (Wednesday)
- 14,000 infant martyrs, beaten by Herod in Bethlehem.
- Orthodox Joseph the Betrothed, King David and Jacob, brother of the Lord.
- Christmas time.
January 12, 2017 (Thursday)
- Saint Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow.
- Christmas time.
January 13, 2017 (Friday)
- The celebration of the feast of the Nativity of Christ.
- Memorial Day of St. Melania the Roman.
- Christmas time.
January 14, 2017 (Saturday)
- Circumcision of the Lord.
- Day of St. Basil the Great.
- Saturday before Epiphany.
- Christmas time.
January 15, 2017 (Sunday)
- The Feast of the Epiphany.
- Repose, the second acquisition of the relics of St. Seraphim, Sarov miracle worker.
- Christmas time
January 16, 2017 (Monday)
- Prefeast of the Epiphany
- Day of remembrance of the holy prophet Malachi. They predicted the appearance of the Savior, the Forerunner and the Last Judgment.
- Christmas time.
January 17, 2017 (Tuesday)
- The Feast of the Epiphany.
- Cathedral of the 70 Apostles.
- Christmas time.
January 18, 2017 (Wednesday)
- Eve of the Epiphany (on the eve of Epiphany).
- On this day, a strict fast should be observed.
- Hieromartyr Theopemptus, Bishop of Nicomedia, and Martyr Theona Magus.
January 19, 2017 (Thursday)
- Holy Epiphany. Baptism of the Lord (Baptism of the Lord Jesus Christ).
January 20, 2017 (Friday)
- Cathedral of the honorable and glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord John.
- Lent day.
January 21, 2017 (Saturday)
- Saint Gregory, Wonderworker of the Caves
- Memorial Day of Saints George Khozevita and Emilian the Confessor.
- Saturday after Epiphany.
January 22, 2017 (Sunday)
- Saint Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia, miracle worker.
January 23, 2017 (Monday)
- Saint Theophan, the Hermit Vyshensky.
- Reverend Pavel Komelsky (Obnorsky).
January 24, 2017 (Tuesday)
- Venerable Theodosius the Great, chief of the general life.
- Reverend Michael of Klopsky, Novgorod.
January 25, 2017 (Wednesday)
- Tatyana's Day is the day of the Most Holy Martyr Tatyana, who suffered for her faith.
- Saint Sava, Archbishop of Serbia.
- Lent day.
January 26, 2017 (Thursday)
- Memorial Day of the Martyrs Ermil and Stratonik.
January 27, 2017 (Friday)
- The celebration of the feast of the Epiphany.
- Day of Equal-to-the-Apostles Nino, Enlightener of Georgia.
- Lent day.
January 28, 2017 (Saturday)
- Rev. Paul of Thebes and John Kuschnik.
January 29, 2017 (Sunday)
- Adoration of the chains that bound the Apostle Paul.
January 30, 2017 (Monday)
- Worship of the first hermit and monk Anthony the Great.
January 31, 2017 (Tuesday)
- Saints Athanasius and Cyril, Archbishops of Alexandria.
- Reverend schemamonk Cyril and schemamonk Mary, parents of St. Sergius of Radonezh.
In addition to church holidays in January, there are fasting days, which are also respected, honored and remembered by all believers. On such days, they deprive themselves of various foods, eating only those foods that the church allows.
Fast days in January 2017
- January 2017 Multi-Day Fast - The Advent Fast (Multi-Day Fast) will begin on November 28, 2016 and will end on January 6, 2017 only.
- One-day posts in January 2017 - January 18, January 20, January 25 and January 27.
- In the period from January 7 to 17, there are no one-day fasts, since these days are celebrated Christmas time
With the list of holidays that fall in January, we figured it out. Now I have come to talk about the most important and valuable days in the second winter month, which should be given special attention.
Nativity
At Christmas, the souls and hearts of Christians are filled with light, love and happiness. On this day, the Savior, Jesus Christ, was born, so everyone who honors and respects his laws should celebrate the holiday with dignity. At Christmas, it is customary to wish each other to get, all sorts of well-being and, of course, health. Many songs written specifically for this winter celebration praise the Lord, the Mother of God and Christ himself.
On the Holy Evening it is customary to visit each other, take the Holy Supper and regale the host and hostess with it. On this day, children go from house to house and carol, sing songs, recite poems.
Christmas is also famous for fortune-telling, which, as a rule, come true. From time immemorial, girls have been conducting Christmas fortune-telling to determine their fate, find out about their lover and find answers to a number of other questions.
Circumcision of the Lord
After the birth, on the eighth day, Jesus Christ received Circumcision - this was done with all newborn male babies. This holiday is also extremely important for the Orthodox Church.
January 14 is still familiar to all of us as the Old New Year. On this day, it is customary to say goodbye to everything that happened last year and hope for the best in the future. There is a tradition that is passed down from generation to generation.
From January 13 to 14, men come to the house to their relatives, friends or just neighbors to “sow” with special cereals, wish them all the best and health.
Baptism of the Lord or Holy Theophany
As the Gospel says, John the Baptist, a mere mortal who led one of the Jewish sects, performed a great sacred deed during his lifetime - he baptized the thirty-year-old Jesus Christ in the Jordan River.
During the baptism, a bright white light suddenly flashed and the Holy Spirit descended to earth in the form of a snow-white dove. And a loud voice was heard from heaven - that was the Lord himself speaking. He told that Jesus is his son and that his blessing lives in him. This holiday symbolizes the appearance of the Holy Trinity: God, his son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, who descended to the people in the form of a white dove.
After his baptism, Christ received an incredible gift and used it for the benefit of others.
The Feast of Epiphany throughout the history of its existence has been “overgrown” with many traditions, rituals and signs. Perhaps the most important and ancient tradition is swimming in the hole. From time immemorial, people went to the pond to swim in icy water, to wash away all sins from themselves, to gain health for the whole year. It was believed that on this day the water is energized and able to cure all kinds of diseases.
Tatyana's Day
Each saint has a special meaning for the Orthodox Church. These people were elevated to the rank of saints for a certain great deed, so they are remembered to this day.
On February 25, the church “given away” to the Holy Great Martyr Tatiana (Titian). She grew up and studied in the family of a noble Roman dignitary who secretly preached Christianity. The growing love for the Almighty gave Titiana the strength to do good throughout the earth. The young girl did not even want to get married, but devoted herself entirely to serving the church.
During the persecution to which Christians were subjected, they wanted to sacrifice the Holy Great Martyr Titiana to a pagan idol. But the woman's faith did not shake, for this Emperor Alexander Severus gave the order to torture Titiana. During such mockeries, the martyr did not betray her God and was faithful to him until her last breath.
By the way, it is Titiana who is considered the patroness of students, so January 25 is still familiar to us as Student's Day.
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