Monthly Calendar
Liturgical Program and Event Calendar for the Months of December 2024 and January 2025:
For a calendar that has all of the daily saints and feasts, please click here.
Unless specified otherwise, Orthros (Matins) begin at 9:00 A.M. and are followed by the Divine Liturgy at 10:00 A.M.
DECEMBER 2024 LITURGICAL CALENDAR
(Nativity Fast continues through December 24)
Sunday, December 1. Fourteenth Sunday of Luke.
Prophet Nahum.
Epistle: Ephesians 2:4-10;
Gospel: Luke 18:35-43 (pp. 114-115) [Healing of Blind Man]
Orthros 9:00 a.m./Divine Liturgy 10:00 a.m.
Sunday, December 8. Tenth Sunday of Luke.
St. Patapios; Forefeast of Conception.
Epistle: Ephesians 2:14-22;
Gospel: Luke 13:10-17 (pp.109-110) [Healing of Woman Bent Over for 18 years]
Orthros 9:00 a.m./Divine Liturgy 10:00 a.m.
Christmas Luncheon after Divine Liturgy
Sunday, December 15. Eleventh Sunday of Luke.
Holy Forefathers of Christ; St. Eleutherios, Bishop of Illyria .
Epistle: II Timothy 1:8-18;
Gospel:Luke 14:16-24 (p.110-112) [Geneology of Christ]
Orthros 9:00 a.m./Divine Liturgy 10:00 a.m.
Sunday, December 22. Sunday before the Nativity.
Holy Ancestors of the Lord: All God Pleasers from our ancestor Adam to St. Joseph the Betrothed and all the Prophets; Great Martyr Anastasia.
Epistle: Hebrews 11:9-10; 32-40
Gospel: Matthew 1:1-25 (pp. 118-120 ) [The Great Banquet]
Orthros 9:00 a.m./Divine Liturgy 10:00 a.m.
Wednesday, December 25. THE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD GOD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST (CHRISTMAS DAY).
Adoration of the Magi: Melchior, Gaspar & Balthasar.
Epistle: Galatians 4:4-7
Gospel: Matthew 2:1-12 [pp. 122-123] [Nativity of Lord]
Orthros 9:00 a.m./Divine Liturgy 10:00 a.m.
Sunday, December 29. Sunday after the Nativity;
Apodosis of the Nativity; 14,000 Holy Innocents slain by King Herod.
Epistle: Galatians 1:11-19
Gospel: Matthew 2:13-23 [Flight into Egypt]
Orthros 9:00 a.m./Divine Liturgy 10:00 a.m.
JANUARY 2025 LITURGICAL CALENDAR
Wednesday, January 1, 2015. Circumcision of the Lord; St. Basil the Great;
New Year's Day. A BLESSED NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!
Epistle: Colossians 2:8-12
Gospel: Luke 2:20-21;40-52 [Jesus circumcised; Jesus in the Temple]
Orthros 9:00 am/10:00 am Divine Liturgy
Sunday, January 5. Sunday before Theophany;
Saints Theopemptos and Theonas.
Epistle: II Timothy 4:5-8
Gospel: Mark 1:1-8 [John the Baptist baptizing]
Orthros 9:00 am/10:00 am Divine Liturgy
Blessing of Water for Theophany: the Baptism of the Lord in the Jordan.
Sunday, January 12. Sunday after Theophany;
Martyr Tatiana.
Epistle: Ephesians 4:7-13
Gospel: Matthew 4:12-17 (pp. 127-128) [The Lord Preaches Repentance]
Orthros 9:00 am/10:00 am Divine Liturgy
Cutting of Vasilopita Bread/ St. Basil's Academy
Sunday, January 19. Twelfth Sunday of Luke;
St. Macarius the Great; St. Mark of Ephesus.
Epistle: Colossians 3:4-11
Gospel: Luke 17:12-19 (pp. 110-111) [Healing Ten Lepers]
Orthros 9:00 am/10:00 am Divine Liturgy
Sunday, January 26. Fifteenth Sunday of Luke;
St. Xenophon and his Companions.
Epistle: I Timothy 4:9-15
Gospel: Luke 19:1-10 (pp. 114-115) [Zacchaios the Tax Collector called down from the tree in Jericho]
Orthros 9:00 am/10:00 am Divine Liturgy
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