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St Michael's

OrthodoxCross Church

Dunedin

 

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Sunday after Nativity

Scripture readings

  • Epistle: Acts of the Apostles 6:8-15; 7:1-5, 47-60
  • Gospel: Matthew 2:13-23

Saints and feasts

  • Holy Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen
  • St. Theodore Graptus ("the Branded", confessor, brother of St. Theophanes the Hymnographer
  • St. Theodore, Archbishop of Constantinople
  • St. Luke, monk of Tryglia
  • New-Martyrs Tikhon, Archbishop of Voronezh, and with him 160 martyred priests (1919)
  • Repose of Athanasius of Grigorious Monastery, Mt. Athos (1953)

The living

  • June
  • Luba
  • Olga
  • Kathleen
  • Sheryl
  • Archpriest Ilyan
  • Andy
  • Matushka Mary
  • Madge
  • John Green
  • Trevor
  • Carol

The Departed we Commemorated today

  • Theodore
  • Sofia
  • Maria
  • Konstantinos