August 2004

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
1 Procession of the Life-Giving Cross & Commemoration of the Holy Maccabees (Beginning of the Fast of the Virgin)   Orthros: 8:30am Divine Liturgy: 9:30am Abstinence!	2 Transfer of the Holy Relics of the Holy Pro­to-Martyr & Pro­to-Deacon Stephen       Paraklesis Service, 6:30pm Fast Day!	3                 Fast Day!	4 The 7 Holy Sleepers of Ephesus           Paraklesis Service (adult dis­­cus­sion), 6:30pm Fast Day!	5 Pre-Feast of the Transfiguration     Hierarchical Great Verspers (Holy Trans­figuration, Hills­boro), 7:00pm   Fast Day!	6 Feast of the Trans­figuration of our Lord, God & Savior Jesus Christ Orthros, 8:00am Liturgy, 9:00am Paraklesis Service, 6:30pm Abstinence (Fish wine & oil are permitted)!	7 Post-Feast of the Transfiguration       Liturgy (Manhattan), 9:30am   Great Vespers & Con­­fes­sion: 5:30pm Abstinence!
8 Tenth Sunday af­ter Pen­­tecost & Sunday af­ter Transfiguration     Orthros: 8:30am Divine Liturgy: 9:30am Abstinence!	9 Post-Feast of the Transfiguration & the Holy Apostle Mat­thias     Paraklesis Service, 6:30pm Fast Day!	10 Post-Feast of the Transfiguration & the Holy Arch­deacon Law­rence of Rome       Fast Day!	11 Post-Feast of the Transfiguration     Paraklesis Service (adult dis­­­cus­sion), 6:30pm Fast Day!	12 Post-Feast of the Transfiguration         Fast Day!	13 Leave-Taking of the Feast of Trans­fig­ur­ation     Paraklesis Service, 6:30pm Fast Day!	14 Pre-Feast of the Dor­mition of the Theo­tokos Liturgy (Manhattan), 9:30am Great Vespers & Con­­ fes­sion: 5:30pm Abstinence!
15 Feast of the Falling Asleep (Dormition) of the All-Holy Theo­to­kos & Ever-Virgin Mary   Orthros, 8:30am Divine Liturgy, 9:30am	16 Post-Feast of the Dormition & Transfer of the Holy Icon “Not Made by Hands” of our Lord from Edessa to Constantinople	17 Post-Feast of the Dormition	18 Post-Feast of the Dormition         Daily Vespers (Parish Council), 6:30pm Fast Day!	19 Post-Feast of the Dormition	20 Post-Feast of the Dormition & the Holy Prophet Samuel         Fast Day!	21 Post-Feast of the Dormition & the Holy Apostle Thaddaeus Liturgy, 9:30am (Man­hat­tan)   Great Vespers & Con­fession: 5:30pm
22 The 12th Sunday af­ter Pentecost & the Post-Feast of the Dor­mi­tion Orthros, 8:30am Divine Liturgy, 9:30am Work Day for Wine Festival	23 The Leave-Taking of the Feast of the Dormition & Our Fa­ther among the Saints Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons	24	25 Transfer of Re­l­ics of Holy Apos­tle Bar­tho­lo­mew & Holy Apos­tle Titus, 1st Bish­op of Crete Daily Vespers (adult dis­­­cus­sion), 6:30pm Fast Day!	26     Work Day for Wine Festival	27 The Holy Martyr Phanourios   Work Day for Wine Festival       Fast Day!	28 Our Venerable Fa­ther Moses the Ethi­o­pian Liturgy 9:30am (Man­hat­tan) Great Vespers & Con­fession: 2:30pm Annual Blessing of the Vineyard, 4:00-7:30pm
29 The Beheading of Holy John, the Prophet, Forerunner & Baptizer of Christ Orthros: 8:30am Divine Liturgy: 9:30am Abstinence!	30 Synaxis of the Holy Hierarchs & New Martyrs of Serbia Vespers & welcome picnic for in-coming K-State Orthodox Stu­dents (Manhattan), 5:30pm	31 The Deposition of the Precious Sash of the Theotokos     Akathistos (Bible Study), 9:30am	Sept. 1 Venerable Fa­ther Symeon the Sty­lite Orthros, 8:00am Liturgy (& Lesser Bless­ing of Waters), 9:00am Daily Vespers (adult dis­­­cus­sion), 6:30pm Fast Day!	2 Holy Child-Martyr Mamas & Our Father among the Saints John the Faster, Patriarch of Constantinople	3             Fast Day!	4 The Holy Law-Giver Moses & the Sacred-Martyr babylas, Bishop of Antioch Liturgy (Manhattan), 9:30am Great Vespers & Con­­fes­sion: 5:30pm

Fast Day: 1 meal after 3:00pm, ab­stin­ence from meat, poultry, dairy, fish, wine & oil.

Abstinence: 2 meals, ab­stin­ence from meat, poultry, dairy & fish; wine & oil are per­mit­ted