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