St. Jonah the Wonderworker Orthodox Christian Church

09/11/2026

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2026/09/11/102570-venerable-theodora-of-alexandria
September 11, Friday, 6:00 pm - Great Vespers
September 12, Saturday, 9:40 am - Hours, 10:00 am - Divine Liturgy followed by coffee hour and meal. 6:00 pm - Readers Vespers
September 13, Sunday, 9:40 am - Hours, 10:00 am - Typika followed by coffee hour and potluck meal. 6:00 pm - Festal Vigil for Exaltation of the Precious Cross
Please join us! All are welcome. See less

Saint Theodora of Alexandria and her husband lived in Alexandria. Love and harmony ruled in their family, and this was hateful to the Enemy of salvation. Goaded on by the devil, a certain rich man was captivated by the youthful beauty of Theodora and began with all his abilities to lead her into…

09/11/2026

https://www.oca.org/holy-synod/statements/his-beatitude-metropolitan-tikhon/remembering-9-11-twenty-five-years-later

To the Clergy, Monastics, and Faithful of the Orthodox Church in America, Beloved children in the Lord, Today…

09/10/2026

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2026/09/10/102557-martyrs-menodora-metrodora-and-nymphodora-at-nicomedia
September 10 - Scripture readings
Gal. 3:23 - 4:5
Mark 6:30-45
September 11, Friday, 6:00 pm - Great Vespers
September 12, Saturday, 9:40 am - Hours, 10:00 am - Divine Liturgy followed by coffee hour and meal. 6:00 pm - Readers Vespers
September 13, Sunday, 9:40 am - Hours, 10:00 am - Typika followed by coffee hour and potluck meal. 6:00 pm - Vigil for Exaltation of the Precious Cross
Please join us! All are welcome.

The Holy Virgins Menodora, Nymphodora, and Metrodora (305-311), were sisters from Bithynia (Asia Minor). Distinguished for their special piety, they wanted to preserve their virginity and avoid worldly associations. They chose a solitary place for themselves in the wilderness and spent their lives.....

09/09/2026

September 11, Friday, 6:00 pm - Great Vespers
September 12, Saturday, 9:40 am - Hours, 10:00 am - Divine Liturgy followed by coffee hour and meal. 6:00 pm - Readers Vespers
September 13, Sunday, 9:40 am - Hours, 10:00 am - Typika followed by coffee hour and potluck meal. 6:00 pm - Vigil for Exaltation of the Precious Cross
Please join us! All are welcome.

09/09/2026

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2026/09/09/102546-holy-and-righteous-ancestors-of-god-joachim-and-anna
St. Joachim and Anna commemorated September 9
September 11, Friday, 6:00 pm - Great Vespers
September 12, Saturday, 9:40 am - Hours, 10:00 am - Divine Liturgy followed by coffee hour and meal. 6:00 pm - Readers Vespers
September 13, Sunday, 9:40 am - Hours, 10:00 am - Typika followed by coffee hour and potluck meal. 6:00 pm - Vigil for Exaltation of the Precious Cross
Please join us! All are welcome.

Saint Joachim, the son of Barpathir, was of the tribe of Judah, and was a descendant of King David, to whom God had revealed that the Savior of the world would be born from his seed. Saint Anna was the daughter of Matthan the priest, who was of the tribe of Levi. Saint Anna’s family came from…

09/08/2026

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2026/09/08/102541-the-nativity-of-our-most-holy-lady-the-mother-of-god-and-ever-vi
September 8 - Scripture readings
Philippians 2:5-11
Luke 10:38-42, 11:27-28

The Nativity of Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary: The Most Holy Virgin Mary was born at a time when people had reached such a degree of moral decay that it seemed altogether impossible to restore them. People often said that God must come into the world to restore faith and not…

09/07/2026

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2026/09/07/102531-forefeast-of-the-nativity-of-the-mother-of-god
September 7, Monday, 6:00 pm - Festal Vigil for the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos

The first lesson at Great Vespers (Genesis 28:10-17) describes Jacob’s dream of a ladder reaching from earth to heaven, and the angels ascending and descending upon it. The second lesson (Ezekiel 43:27-44:4) speaks of the gate of the sanctuary which faces east. God enters through this gate,…

09/06/2026

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2026/09/06/102517-commemoration-of-the-miracle-of-the-archangel-michael-at-colossa
September 6, Sunday, 9:40 am - Hours, 10:00 am - Typika followed by coffee hour and potluck meal.
September 7, Monday, 6:00 pm - Festal Vigil for the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos
Please join us! All are welcome.

In Phrygia, not far from the city of Hieropolis, in a place called Cheretopos, there was a church named for the Archangel Michael, built over a miraculous spring. This church was built by a certain inhabitant of the city of Laodicia in gratitude to God for healing his mute daughter. The holy Chief.....

09/05/2026

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2026/09/05/102502-holy-prophet-zachariah-and-righteous-elizabeth-parents-of-saint
September 5, Saturday, 6:00 pm - Readers Vespers
September 6, Sunday, 9:40 am - Hours, 10:00 am - Typika followed by coffee hour and potluck meal.
September 7, Monday, 6:00 pm - Festal Vigil for the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos
Please join us! All are welcome.

The Holy Prophet Zachariah and the Righteous Elizabeth were the parents of the holy Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord, John. They were descended from the lineage of Aaron: Saint Zachariah, son of Barach, was a priest in the Jerusalem Temple, and Saint Elizabeth was the sister of Saint…

09/04/2026

September 5, Saturday, 6:00 pm - Readers Vespers
September 6, Sunday, 9:40 am - Hours, 10:00 am - Typika followed by coffee hour and potluck meal.
September 7, Monday, 6:00 pm - Festal Vigil for the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos
Please join us! All are welcome.