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Key to Color Coding:
+ Days highlighted in yellow are major feast days that are done. Their apolytikia, kontakia, idiomela, and doxastica are ready now.
+ Days highlighted in green are major feast days that are partially done. Their apolytikia and kontakia are ready now. Music for the other troparia (doxastica, idiomela, etc.) on these days might be ready by December of 2011.
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+ Days not highlighted are minor days without doxastica. Their apolytikia are ready now.
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| 1 - Prophet Nahum | ||
| 1 - St. Philaret the Almsgiver | ||
| 2 - Prophet Abbacum | ||
| 3 - Prophet Sophonias | ||
| 4 - St. Barbara; St. John of Damascus | ||
| 5 - St. Sabbas the Sanctified | ||
| 6 - St. Nicholas of Myra | ||
| 7 - St. Ambrose of Milan | ||
| 8 - St. Patapius | ||
| 9 - St. Anne's Conception of the Theotokos; The Consecration | ||
| 10 - Sts. Menas, Eugraphus, and Hermogenes | ||
| 11-17 The Sunday of the Holy Forefathers | ||
| 11 - St. Daniel the Stylite | ||
| 12 - St. Spyridon | ||
| 12 - St. Herman of Alaska | ||
| 12 - St. Peter the Aleut | ||
| 13 - Holy Five Martyrs Eustratius, Auxentius, Eugene, Mardarius, and Orestes | ||
| 13 - St. Lucia of Sicily | ||
| 14 - Sts. Thyrsus, Leucius, and Callinicus | ||
| 15 - St. Eleutherius | ||
| 16 - Prophet Aggaeus | ||
| 16 - St. Theophano the Empress | ||
| 17 - Prophet Daniel and the Three Children | ||
| 17 - St. Dionysius of Zakynthos | ||
| 18-24 The Sunday Before the Nativity | ||
| 18 - St. Sebastian | ||
| 19 - St. Boniface | ||
| 20 - The Forefeast of the Nativity | ||
| 20 - St. Ignatius the God-bearer | ||
| 21 - St. Juliana | ||
| 21 - St. Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow | ||
| 22 - St. Anastasia | ||
| 23 - Holy Ten Martyrs of Crete | ||
| 24 - St. Eugenia | ||
| 24 - The Royal Hours | ||
| 25 - The Nativity of Christ | ||
| 25 - The Nativity of Christ - Katavasias | ||
| 26 - Synaxis of the Theotokos | ||
| 26-31 - Sunday After the Nativity | ||
| 27 - St. Stephen the Archdeacon ; St. Theodore the Branded | ||
| 28 - Holy 20,000 Martyrs in Nicomedia | ||
| 29 - Holy 14,000 Infants Slain by Herod | ||
| 29 - St. Marcellus | ||
| 30 - St. Anysia | ||
| 31 - St. Melania of Rome | ||
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The translation used for these Menaion hymns is copyrighted by the Holy Transfiguration Monastery in Brookline and is used with their permission. We chose their translation because many people throughout the world hold their liturgical translations in high regard due to their precision, meter, and elegance. While the music is copyright St. Anthony’s Monastery, the texts are copyright Holy Transfiguration Monastery, and may not be further distributed or used in sound or print publications or otherwise without the prior written permission of Holy Transfiguration Monastery.
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