Texts for Liturgical Services

Leavetaking of the Transfiguration
St. Tikhon, Bishop of Voronezh, Wonderworker of Zadonsk and All Russia

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Dormition of our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary

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11th Sunday after Pentecost, Tone 2
Afterfeast of the Dormition
Translation of the Image “Not-made-by-hands” of our Lord Jesus Christ from Edessa to Constantinople

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12th Sunday after Pentecost, Tone 3
Leavetaking of Dormition

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Beheading of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist, John

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13th Sunday after Pentecost, Tone 4
Afterfeast of the Beheading of the Forerunner
Sts. Alexander, John, and Paul the New, Patriarchs of Constantinople

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Church New Year (Indiction)
St. Simeon the Stylite (the Elder) and his mother, Ven. Martha

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14th Sunday after Pentecost, Tone 5
Commemoration of the Miracle of the Archangel Michael at Colossae

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Nativity of our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary

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Afterfeast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos
Holy and Righteous Ancestors of God, Joachim and Anna

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15th Sunday after Pentecost, Tone 6
Forefeast of the Exaltation of the Cross
Sunday Before the Exaltation
Commemoration of the Founding of the Church of the Resurrection (Holy Sepulcher) at Jerusalem

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The Universal Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross

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16th Sunday after Pentecost, Tone 7
Afterfeast of the Exaltation of the Cross
Sunday After the Exaltation of the Cross
Greatmartyr Eustathius (Eustace) Placidas, his wife, Martyr Theopistes, and their children, Martyrs Agapius and Theopistus, of Rome

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Conception of the Honorable Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John

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Holy New Martyrs of Alaska, Hieromonk Juvenaly and Peter the Aleut

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Repose of Ven. Sergius, Abbot and Wonderworker of Radonezh and All Russia

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Repose of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian

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17th Sunday after Pentecost (1st of Luke), Tone 8
Martyrs Callistratus and his companions

The Protection of Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary
Ven. Romanus the Melodist

18th Sunday after Pentecost (2nd of Luke), Tone 1
Hieromartyr Hierotheus, Bishop of Athens

Glorification of St. Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow, Enlightener of the Aleuts, and Apostle to the Americas
[Holy and Glorious Apostle Thomas] (sung whenever the Superior wishes)

Glorification of St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Enlightener of North America
[Holy Apostle James, Son of Alphaeus] (sung whenever the Superior wishes)

19th Sunday after Pentecost (3rd of Luke), Tone 2
Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the 7th Ecumenical Council

20th Sunday after Pentecost (4th of Luke), Tone 3
Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke

Holy Apostle James, the Brother of the Lord

Memorial Saturday – Demetrius Saturday

21st Sunday after Pentecost (5th of Luke), Tone 4
Martyrs Marcian and Martyrius the Notaries, of Constantinople

Holy and Glorious Greatmartyr Demetrius the Myrrhgusher of Thessalonica
Commemoration of the Great Earthquake at Constantinople

Righteous Olga of Kwethluk, Wonderworker, Matushka of All Alaska

New Hieromartyr Archpriest John Kochurov