St. Jonah the Wonderworker Orthodox Christian Church

06/18/2026

June 19, Saturday, 6:00 pm - Readers Vespers
June 20, Sunday, 9:40 am - Hours, 10:00 am - Typika followed by coffee hour and fasting potluck meal. Please join us! All are welcome.

06/18/2026

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2026/06/18/101746-martyrs-leontius-hypatius-and-theodulus-at-tripoli-in-syria
June 18 - Scripture readings
Rom. 8:22-27
Matt. 10:23-31
June 19, Saturday, 6:00 pm - Readers Vespers
June 20, Sunday, 9:40 am - Hours, 10:00 am - Typika followed by coffee hour and fasting potluck meal. Please join us! All are welcome.

The Holy Martyrs Leontius, Hypatius, and Theodulus were Roman soldiers. The holy Martyr Leontius, a Greek by origin, served as a military-chief in the imperial army in the Phoenician city of Tripoli during the reign of Vespasian (70-79). Leontius was distinguished for his bravery and good sense,…

06/17/2026

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2026/06/17/101743-martyrs-manuel-sabel-and-ismael-of-persia
June 17 - Scripture readings
Rom. 8:2-13
Matt. 10:16-22

The Holy Martyrs Manuel, Sabel and Ismael, brothers by birth, were descended from an illustrious Persian family. Their father was a pagan, but their mother was a Christian, who baptized the children and raised them with a firm faith in Christ the Savior. When they reached adulthood, the brothers…

06/16/2026

A healthy approach to yourself as sinner depends upon knowing something of God’s mercy. Without faith and trust in God—as merciful and loving beyond measure—our self-condemnation would be impossible to bear. It would be self-destructive. And there is no clearer portrait of God than the crucified Christ, who has voluntarily surrendered everything for us. The cross—the limitless self-giving, voluntary co-suffering that it represents, the extent of love and mercy that it conveys—reveals to us what it is to be God.

—Dr. Peter Bouteneff, How to Be a Sinner

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06/16/2026

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2026/06/16/101738-saint-tikhon-bishop-of-amathus-in-cyprus
June 16 - Scripture readings
Rom. 7:14 - 8:2
Matt. 10:9-15

Saint Tikhon, Bishop of Amathus, was born in the city Amathus on the island of Cyprus. His parents raised their son in Christian piety, and taught him the reading of sacred books. It is said that the gift of wonderworking appeared in Saint Tikhon at quite a young age. His father was the owner of a.....

06/15/2026

This is why God has placed the salutary remedy of repentance so clearly visible in the middle of paradise (namely, the new paradise into which the baptized enter), so that those who fall away from eternal life through idleness or negligence, return to it again through repentance with a glory that is more brightly visible.
If God, who is man’s friend, had not foreseen this remedy, no flesh could ever be safe. … It is indeed for this reason that God, the compassionate One who desires our salvation, has in His wisdom placed confession and repentance between Himself and us.

He gives to every man who desires it the strength to turn away from error and to regain the former state of intimate glory, and freedom of speech with God. This is not all; he can also recover the inheritance of these and even greater goods provided he is willing to show fervor in his repentance.

—St. Symeon the New Theologian, In the Light of Christ: Saint Symeon the New Theologian—Life, Spirituality, Doctrine

06/15/2026

https://www.oca.org/news/oca-news/metropolitan-tikhon-writes-to-metropolitan-onufriy-following-attack-on-kyiv-pechersk-lavra?fbclid=IwY2xjawSc6bZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeGgh61l8kP7LDQcHP9nP5bPc9XggJFMuzqNvSYMG-sea2qqwvqpiX9wugERU_aem_h05UlPfZI7qfhZZAhRmy4A

Your Beatitude, dear brother and concelebrant in the Lord’s Mysteries, Christ is in our midst! It is with profound sorrow that I learned of the recent attack on the Holy Dormition…

06/15/2026

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2026/06/15/101725-saint-jonah-metropolitan-of-moscow
June 15 - Scripture readings
Rom. 7:1-13
Matt. 9:36 - 10:8

Saint Jonah, Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of All Russia, was born in the city of Galich into a pious Christian family. The father of the future saint was named Theodore. The youth received monastic tonsure in one of the Galich monasteries when he was only twelve years old. From there, he....

06/15/2026

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2026/06/15/101734-right-believing-prince-lazarus-the-great-martyr-of-serbia
Commemorated June 15

The Holy Prince Lazar of Serbia lived during the fourteenth century at a time when the Turks, having conquered neighboring lands, were preparing to invade Serbia. Saint Lazar was raised at the court of the holy King Dushan, and was appointed governor of one of the Serbian districts. In the year…

06/14/2026

Now the will of God is precisely what Christ both did and taught. It entails being humble in our lifestyle, steadfast in our faith, modest in our words, just in our actions, merciful in our dealings, disciplined in our conduct, incapable of inflicting a wrong but able to bear one inflicted on us; keeping peace with our brothers; loving God with all our heart; cherishing Him as Father while fearing Him as God; putting absolutely nothing before Christ, since He put nothing before us; clinging tenaciously to His love; standing, brave and confident, by His cross; and whenever His name and honor are involved, displaying in our speech the constancy to confess Him, under torture the courage to fight for Him, and in death patience for which we shall be crowned.

—St. Cyprian of Carthage, On the Lord’s Prayer

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