Orthodox Calendar
Thursday January 9, 2025 / December 27, 2024
29th Week after Pentecost. Tone three.
Sviatki. Fast-free
Venerable Theodore Graptus ("the Branded") of Palestine and Bithynia, confessor (840), brother of St. Theophanes the Confessor and Hymnographer (850).
New Hieromartyrs Tikhon, archbishop of Voronezh and with him 160 martyred priests (1919).
Virgin-Martyr Antonina (1937).
Venerable Boniface of Kiev (1871).
St. Theodore, archbishop of Constantinople (686).
Uncovering of Relics (1514) of Venerable Pherapont of Mozhaisk, Luzhetsk.
Venerable Luke, monk, of Tryglia.
St. Maximus, bishop of Alexandria (282).
St. Maurice and the Theban Legion. (Candidus, Innocent, Exuperius and 6,600 others) (302).
The Scripture Readings
Hebrews 7:1-6Mark 11:27-33
Acts 6:8-15; 7:1-5, 47-60 Saint
Matthew 21:33-42 Saint
Source: Orthodox Calendar. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH