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St Michael's

OrthodoxCross Church

Dunedin

 

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Sunday before Nativity

Scripture readings

  • Epistle: St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 11:9-10; 32-40
  • Gospel: Matthew 1:1-25

Saints and feasts

  • Repose of Righteous John of Kronstadt Hieromartyr
  • Ignatius the God-bearer, Bishop of Antioch
  • St. Philogonius, Bishop of Antioch
  • St. Daniel II, Archbishop of Serbia
  • St. Ignatius, archimandrite of the Kiev Caves
  • New-Martyr John of the Isle of Thasos
  • Repose of Anthony, Archbishop of Voronezh and Zadonsk (1846), and Metropolitan Philaret of Kiev (Theodosius in schmea) (1857)

The living

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

The Departed we Commemorated today

  • Tagie
  • John & Christina
  • George
  • Dusanka
  • Swapna