Fore-feast of The Nativity of Christ

Scripture readings

• Epistle: The Reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 11:9-10; 32-40
  
  


• Gospel: The Reading is from Matthew 1:1-25
  

Saints Commemorated Today

• Juliana of Nicomedia and her 630 Companion Martyrs
• Themistocles the Martyr of Myra
• Saint Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow

The Living

• Patriarch Pavle of Serbia
• June
• Luba
• Olga (Soroka)

The Departed we Commemorated today

• priest John
• Angelique
• Dusanka