Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

September 01

Saints commemorated, links to lives of Saints,

Feasts, Scripture Readings, rubrics

1. Church New Year.
   Readings
   • VESPERS: (1)Isa 61:1-9; (2)Lev 26:3-12,14-17,19-24; for St Symeon: Wis 4:7-15
   • LITURGY: I TIM 2:1-7 LUKE 4:16-22
   
   Wine And Oil allowed
   LINKS:
   • 1
   • The Beginning of the Indiction
   • Orthodox Bible Study on The Beginning of the Indiction
2. St. Symeon the Stylite and his mother St. Martha
   LITURGY: Col 3:12-16; Matt 11:27-30
   (The services to the Saint and for the New Year are combined.(Vespers and Liturgy only))
3. Martyr Aeithalas of Persia.
4. Holy 40 Women Martyrs and Martyr Ammon the deacon and their teacher, at Heraclea in Thrace.
5. Martyrs Callista and her brothers Evodus and Hermogenes at Nicomedia.
6. Righteous Joshua the Son of Nun.
7. St. Meletius the New of Greece.
8. New Martyr Angelis of Constantinople.
9. Commemoration of the Great Fire at Constantinople
   c. 470 A.D.
10. Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos in Miasena.
11. Greek Calendar
    • St. Evanthia.
    • St. Nicholas of Crete, monk.
12. "Chernigov Gethsemane" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.