Divine Liturgy
The Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the First Six Ecumenical Councils. https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/07/17/50-fathers-of-the-first-six-councils Click the link to read about them.
The Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the First Six Ecumenical Councils. https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/07/17/50-fathers-of-the-first-six-councils Click the link to read about them.
Saints Boris and Gleb were sons of Saint Vladimir (July 15). Saint Boris was named Romanus and Saint Gleb was named David at their Baptism. https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/07/24/102082-martyrs-and-passion-bearers-boris-and-gleb Click the link to read more about these brother passionbearers.
Forefeast of the Procession of the Honorable and Lifegiving Cross of the Lord
On the first day of the Afterfeast of the Transfiguration, the hymns of Vespers speak of the amazement of the Apostles when they saw Christ transfigured before them. The Savior’s equality with the Father is also stressed, for He who covers Himself with light as with a garment is now transfigured before His disciples, “shining Read more...
The Troparion of the Forefeast invites us to gather on this day in gladness, for the Theotokos is about to depart from earth to heaven...http://oca.org
The Church continues to honour the passage of the Most Holy Theotokos from death to life. Just as Christ once dwelt in the virginal womb of His Mother, now He takes Her “to dwell in His courts.” Taken from 0ca.org
Saint Moses lived in Egypt during the fourth century. He was an Ethiopian, and since he was black of skin he was called “Murin” (meaning “like an Ethiopian”). In his youth he was the slave of an important man, but after he committed a murder, his master banished him, and he joined a band of Read more...
Two of the saints that are commemorated today are Hieromartyr Babylas and the holy prophet Moses. The Hieromartyr Babylas and with him the three youths Urban, Prilidian, Epolonius and their mother Christodoula died as martyrs under the emperor Decius (249-251). During his stay in their city of Antioch, the emperor arranged for a large festival Read more...
Saint Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and Apostle to America was born as Vasily Ivanovich Belavin on January 19, 1865 into the family of Ioann Belavin, a rural priest of the Toropetz district of the Pskov diocese. His childhood and adolescence were spent in the village in direct contact with peasants and their labour. From his Read more...
Today the Church remembers the 350 holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council under the holy Patriarch Tarasius (February 25). The Synod of 787, the second to meet at Nicea, refuted the Iconoclast heresy during the reign of Empress Irene and her son Constantine VI...to read more click: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/10/09/70-commemoration-of-the-holy-fathers-of-the-seventh-ecumenical-coun