St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church
Las Vegas, NV
Orthros & Divine Liturgy – Beheading of the Holy Prophet & Forerunner John the Baptist
Tue, Aug 29
|St. John the Baptist GOC
He who baptized our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ is beheaded this day. This enabled him to be the Forerunner to Jesus Christ in Hades to announce to them His coming.


Time & Location
Aug 29, 2023, 8:00 AM – 11:30 AM
St. John the Baptist GOC, 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…