Menaion Services
Services at Holy Ascension are scheduled every Saturday evening and Sunday morning, and on major feasts and commemorations of the church. These services from the Menaion, translated into English by the late Monk Joseph (Isaac E. Lambertsen), are used throughout the year. Dates are according to the Church (Julian) calendar, which is currently 13 days behind the civil (Gregorian) calendar. Highlighted commemorations will be served in August 2022.
Month of August
August 1: Feast of the Most-Merciful Savior & the All-Holy Theotokos
August 2: Transfer of the Relics of the Holy Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen
August 3: Sts. Isaacius, Dalmatus & Faustus
August 3: St. Anthony the Roman
August 4: Seven Holy Youths of Ephesus
August 5: Forefeast of the Transfiguration & Holy Martyr Eusygnius
August 6: Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord
August 7: Holy Martyred Monk Dometius
August 8: St. Emilian the Confessor, Bishop of Cyzicus
August 8: Transfer of the Relics of Sts. Zosimas & Sabbatius of Solovki
August 9: Holy Apostle Matthias
August 10: Holy Martyr & Archdeacon Laurence
August 11: Holy Martyr & Archdeacon Euplus
August 12: Martyrs Photius & Anicetas and St. Maximus the Confessor
August 13: Leave-taking of the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord
August 13: St. Tikhon, Bishop of Voronezh
August 14: Forefeast of the Dormition and Holy Prophet Micah
August 15: Dormition of the Most-Holy Theotokos
August 16: Transfer of the Image Not-Made-By-Hands of Our Lord from Edessa to Constantinople
August 16: All-Night Vigil for the Transfer of the Image Not-Made-By-Hands
August 18: Holy Martyrs Florus & Laurus
August 19: Holy Martyr Andrew the General
August 20: Holy Prophet Samuel
August 21: Holy Apostle Thaddaeus & Holy Martyr Bassa & Those with Her
August 22: Holy Martyr Agathonicus & Those with Him and Holy Martyr Luppus
August 23: Leave-taking of the Dormition of the All-holy Theotokos
August 24: Hieromartyr Eutyches
August 24: Holy New-hieromartyr Maximus Sandovich, Protomartyr of the Lemko People
August 25: Return of the Relics of the Holy Apostle Bartholomew & Holy Apostle Titus
August 26: Holy Martyrs Adrian and Natalia
August 26: Meeting of the Vladimir Icon of the Theotokos
August 27: St. Poemen the Great
August 28: St. Moses the Black
August 28: Commemoratin of the Holy Fathers of the Kiev Far Caves
August 29: Beheading of St. John the Forerunner and Baptist
August 30: Holy Fathers Alexander, John and Paul the New, Patriarchs of Constantinople
August 30: Transfer of the Relics of St. Alexander Nevsky
August 31: Deposition of the Precious Cincture of the Theotokos
August 31: Our Father among the Saints Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Enlightener of Northumbria