Scripture Readings
Sunday, December 26, 1999
Today’s commemorated feasts and saints
30th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST — Tone 5. Holy Righteous Ones: Joseph the Betrothed, David the King, and James the Brother of the Lord. Second Day of the Feast of the Nativity . Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos . Sunday after Nativity. Hieromartyr Euthymius, Bishop of Sardis (ca. 840). Ven. Constantine of Synnada (8th c.). Ven. Evaristus of the Studion Monastery (9th c.). Saint Νikodemos the Sanctified of Tismana, Romania (Macedonia—1406). Hieromartyr Constantine the Russian of Lavra on Mt. Athos (Mt. Athos—1743).