St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church
Las Vegas, NV
Orthros and Divine Liturgy for the Beheading of St. John the Baptist
Mon, Aug 29
|St. John the Baptist
There are three Strict Fasting Days in the calendar year of the Orthodox Church outside of the four major Fasting periods. The 14th of September (Exaltation of the Holy Cross) the 5th of January (Day before the Lord's Baptism) and the 29th of August, the Beheading of St. John the Baptist.
Time & Location
Aug 29, 2022, 8:45 AM
St. John the Baptist, 5300 El Camino Rd, Las Vegas, NV 89118, USA
About The Event
The divine Baptist, the Prophet born of a Prophet, the seal of all the Prophets and beginning of the Apostles, the mediator between the Old and New Covenants, the voice of one crying in the wilderness, the God-sent Messenger of the incarnate Messiah, the forerunner of Christ's coming into the world (Esaias 40: 3; Mal. 3: 1); who by many miracles was both conceived and born; who was filled with the Holy Spirit while yet in his mother's womb; who came forth like another Elias the Zealot, whose life in the wilderness and divine zeal for God's Law he imitated: this divine Prophet, after he had preached the baptism of repentance according to God's command; had taught men of low rank and high how they must order their lives; had admonished those whom he baptized and had filled them with the fear of God, teaching them that no one is…