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The 2025 Orthodox wall calendar is now available!
Order your 2025 wall calendar honouring the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, featuring Orthodox saints, feasts, fasting rules and hymns. Order now. Continue reading
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Tagged 2025 calendar, arius, byzantine, calendar, Christian Calendar, Christianity, church, church fathers, council, dogmatik hymns, ecclesiastical calendar, fasting, Feasts, liturgical calendar, Nicaea, Orthodox, Orthodox Christianity, orthodox church, Religious Art, religious calendar, saint john damascus, Saints, theotokos, wall calendar
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Synaxarion for Saturday of the Akathistos Hymn
On the fifth Saturday of the Great Fast, we celebrate the praise of our Most-holy Lady, theTheotokos and Ever-virgin Mary, during which “it is not permitted to sit.” VersesThe city in thanksgiving and watchfulness doth praiseHer who upholdeth and constantly
Posted in Feasts, Saints & History
Tagged Akathistos Hymn, Constantinople, Emperor Heraclius, Orthodox, shrewsbury, Synaxarion, theotokos
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Saturday of the Akathist Hymn
By Elder Epiphanios Theodoropoulos [On the Fifth] Saturday [of the fast] we chant the Akathist Hymn during Matins. In our days however this does not happen except in the holy monasteries, since in the parishes it is chanted the evening before, on Friday
Posted in Feasts, Saints & History
Tagged Akathist, Annunciation, lent, Orthodox, theotokos
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