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The American Orthodox Church Liturgical Calendar Year 2021~2022 August The American Orthodox Church Liturgical Calendar Year 2021~2022 August 1. Procession of the Precious and Life-giving Cross 17. Holy Hieromartyr Myron The Seven Maccabee Children, Their Mother Solomone and St Alypios the Iconographer Their Teacher Eleazar St Rioch 18. Holy Martyrs Floros and Lauros St Kenneth St Daga, Hierarch St Alphonsus Ligouri Ss Shmoonu and her sons 19. Holy Great Martyr Andrew the Commander and the 2593 Martyrs with Him 2. Translation of the Relics of the Protomartyr and Archdeacon St St John Eudes Stephen from Jerusalem to Constantinople St eusibius of Vercelli 20. Holy Prophet Samuel St Oswin, King and Martyr 3. The Righteous Fathers Isaac, Dalmatos and Faustos, Abbots in St Bernard, Abbot Constantinople St Anthony the Roman, Wonderworker in Novgorod 21. Holy Apostle Thaddeus St Trea, Recluse Holy Martyr Vassa and Her Three Sons St Pius X, Bishop of Rome 4. The Seven Holy Youths of Ephesus St Lugid 22. Synaxis of the Mother of God of Prusa St John Vianney Holy Martyr Agathonicos and His Companions 5. Forefeast of the Transfiguration 23. Leave-taking of the Feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God Holy Martyr Evsignios St Eogan, First Bishop of Ardstrawst Holy Martyr Oswald St Lupos the Slave St Rose of Lima 6. HOLY TRANSFIGURATION OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR St Isaac the Syrian JESUS CHRIST 24. Holy Hieromartyr Eutyches, Disciple of the Apostle St John 7. Holy Hieromartyr Dometios the Persian St Ychard St Sixtus II, Bishop of Rome St Cajetan 25. Translation of the Relics of St Bartholomew Holy Apostle Titus, First Bishop 8. St Emilian the Confessor, Bishop of Cyzicos St Louis St Dominic, Abbot St John Calasanz 9. Holy Apostle Matthias 26. Our Lady of Czestochowa St Phelim, Hierarch Icon of the Mother of God of Vladimir St Edith Stein Holy Martyrs Adrian and Natalie 10. Holy Martyr Laurence, Archdeacon of Rome 27. Holy Martyr Phanurios St Geraint, Confessor Our Holy Father Pimen the Anchorite St Blane, Hierarch St Monica 11. Holy Martyr Evplos the Deacon 28. Our Holy Father Moses the Ethiopian St Augustine, Bishop of Hippo 12. Holy Martyrs Photios and Anicetos St Clare 29. BEHEADING OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST St Theodora of Thessalonica 13. Leave-taking of the Transfiguration St Maximos the Confessor 30. Our Fathers among the Saints Alexander, John and Paul, St Tikhon of Zadonsk Patriarchs of Constantinople St Hippolytus St Alexander of the River Svir St Pontian, Bishop of Rome 31. Placing of the Precious Girdle of the Mother of God in 14. Forefeast of the Dormition of the All-holy Mother of God Chalcoprateia Holy Prophet Micah Ss Abda, Aegidius ad Zekhia St Maximillian Kolbe, Priest and Martyr 15. DORMITION OF THE ALL-HOLY MOTHER OF GOD 16. Translation of the Icon Not Made with Hands of Our Lord Jesus Christ from Edessa to Constantinople Holy Martyr Diomedes the Unmercinary Healer St Stephen of Hungary St Rocco American Orthodox Church August 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 July 19th July 20th July 21st July 22nd July 23rd July 24th July 25th Sixth Sunday after Prefestive - Transfiguration Pentecost (Tone 5) Transfiguration of of Our Lord Our Lord Matins Gospel 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 July 26th July 27th July 28th July 29th July 30th July 31st Aug 1st New Moon Leavetaking of the Prefestive - Transfiguration Dormition of the Seventh Sunday Theotokos after Pentecost (Tone 6) Matins Gospel 7 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Aug 2nd Aug 3rd Aug 4th Aug 5th Aug 6th Aug 7th Aug 8th FIrst Quarter Leavetaking of the Dormition Eighth Sunday after Pentecost (Tone 7) Dormition of the Theotokos Matins Gospel 8 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Aug 9th Aug 10th Aug 11th Aug 12th Aug 13th Aug 14th Aug 15th Full Moon Our Lady of Nineth Sunday Czestochowa after Pentecost (Tone 8) Matins Gospel 9 29 30 31 Jul 2021 Sep 2021 Aug 16th Aug 17th Aug 18th SMTWT FS SMTWT FS Tenth Sunday after Last Quarter 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 Pentecost (Tone 1) 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Beheading of 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 John the Baptist 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 26 27 28 29 30 Matins Gospel 10 September 1. BEGINNING OF THE CHURCH'S YEAR 17. The Holy Martyr Sophia and Her Three Daughters Faith, Hope Icon of the Mother of God of Miasinae and Love St Symeon Stylites and St Martha His Mother Holy Martyrs Socrates and Stephen St Silin, Abbot of Meifod St Robert Ballermine St Aeithalas, Forty Holy Women, St Ammon the Deacon St Calistus, St Evod, St Hermogenes, St Joshua 18. St Eumenius, Bishop of Gortynia in Crete, Wonderworker St Ariadne the Martyr 2. Holy Martyr Mamas St John the Faster, Patriarch of Constantinople 19. Holy Martyrs Trophimus, Sabbatius and Dorymedon St Hieu, Abbess St Theodore, Prince of Smolensk and His Two Sons David and Constantine 3. Holy Hieromartyr Anthimus, Bishop of Nicomedia St Januarius St Phoebe, Deaconess of Cenchrae Our Holy Father Theoctistus, Fellow Ascetic of Euthymius the 20. Great Martyr Eustathius, His Wife Theopiste, and Their Two Great Sons Agapius and Theopistus St Macnis St Michael, Prince of Chernigov and His Boyar Theodore, Martyrs at the Hands of the Tartars 4. Icon of the Mother of God of the Burning Bush Holy Prophet Moses the Law-giver and Seer of God 21. Leavetaking of the Feast of the Elevation of the Precious and Babylas, Bishop of Antioch, Hieromartyr Life-giving Cross St Quadratus of the Seventy 5. Holy Prophet Zacharias, Father of the Forerunner St Mabyn Mother Theresa of Calcutta St Codratus of Magnesia St Sharbel and his Sister 22. St Phocas of Sinope, Hieromartyr 6. Miracle of the Archangel Michael at Chonae St Maccallin 23. Conception of St John the Baptist St Pio of Patrochino 7. Forefeast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God Holy Martyr Sozon the Shepherd 24. Synaxis of the Mother of God of the Myrtle Tree St John, Archbishop of Novgorod St Thecla, the First Woman-martyr Equal-to-the Apostles 8. THE NATIVITY OF THE MOST HOLY MOTHER OF GOD 25. St Sergius of Radonezh, Wonderworker St Cynfarch, Monk St Euphrosyne of Alexandria St Caian 9. The Holy and Righteous Joachim and Anna St Finbar Holy Martyr Severian St Kieran of Clonmacnois 26. Translation of the Apostle and Evangelist St John the Theologian 10. The Holy Martyrs Menodora, Metrodora and Nymphodora St Mawgan St Finian, Abbot St Colman Elo Pope Paul VI of Rome 11. St Theodora of Alexandria St Deiniol, Abbot of Bangor 27. Holy Martyr Callistratus and the Forty Nine Holy Martyrs with Him 12. Leave-taking of the Feast of the Nativity of the Most Holy St Sabbatius of Solovietsk Mother of God St Barrog St Ailbe, Bishop of Emly St Vincent de Paul Holy Martyr Autonomus 28. Our Holy Father and Confessor Chariton 13. Forefeast of the Elevation of the Precious and Life- giving Cross Holy Prophet Baruch Holy Hieromartyr Cornelius the Centurion St Conwall St Wenceslaus 14. THE ELEVATION OF THE PRECIOUS AND LIFE-GIVING CROSS 29. St Cyriac the Ascetic St Rouhana the Cantor 15. St Nicetas the Goth St Philotheus the Presbyter 30. Holy Hieromartyr Gregory the Illuminator, Bishop and St Hernan, Monk Evangelist of Great Armenia St Merryn, Hierarch St Michael, Metropolitan of Kiev St Midan 16. The Great and All-famed Martyr Euphemia St Jerome St Ninian, Abbot American Orthodox Church September 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Aug 2021 Oct 2021 1 2 3 4 SMTWT FS SMTWT FS Aug 19th Aug 20th Aug 21st Aug 22nd 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 Beginning of the Church Year 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 29 30 31 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Aug 23rd Aug 24th Aug 25th Aug 26th Aug 27th Aug 28th Aug 29th Eleventh Sunday New Moon Prefestive - Nativity of the after Pentecost Nativity of the Holy (Tone 2) Theotokos Theotokos Matins Gospel 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Aug 30th Aug 31st Sep 1st Sep 2nd Sep 3rd Sep 4th Sep 5th Twenfth Sunday FIrst Quarter Exaltation of after Pentecost the Holy Cross (Tone 3) Leavetaking of the Nativity of the Theotokos Matins Gospel 1 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Sep 6th Sep 7th Sep 8th Sep 9th Sep 10th Sep 11th Sep 12th Thirteenth Sunday Full Moon Leavetaking of the Conception of St. after Pentecost Holy Cross John the Baptist (Tone 4) Matins Gospel 2 26 27 28 29 30 Sep 13th Sep 14th Sep 15th Sep 16th Sep 17th Fourteenth Sunday Last Quarter after Pentecost (Tone 5) 1st of Luke Matins Gospel 3 October 1. FEAST OF THE PROTECTION OF THE MOST HOLY 17. Holy Prophet Hosea MOTHER OF GOD Holy Hieromartyr Andrew in 'The Judgment' Holy Apostle Ananias of the Seventy St Colman of Kilroot, Hierarch St Romanus the Melodist, Holy Martyr Melor St Louthiern, Hierarch 2. Holy Hieromartry Cyprian 18. Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke St Justina St Gwen, Martyr, St Wenna, Martyr, Ss Brothen and Gwendolen, St Monon, Martyr 3.
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