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Thursday, December 18, 2025 - Martyr Sebastian and Companions at Rome

Thursday, December 18, 2025
28th Thursday after Pentecost.
Nativity Fast Wine & Oil

Readings:

• Titus 1.5-2.1 (Epistle)
• Mark 9.10-16 (Gospel)

Psalter:

• Kathisma 13, Kathisma 14, Kathisma 15 (Matins)
• Kathisma 18 (Vespers)

On this day the Church remembers:

• Martyr Sebastian at Rome, and his companions
• Martyr Nicostratus at Rome
• Martyr Zoe at Rome
• Martyr Castorius at Rome
• Martyr Tranquillinus at Rome
• Martyr Marcellinus at Rome
• Martyr Mark at Rome
• Martyr Claudius at Rome
• Martyr Symphorian at Rome
• Martyr Victorinus at Rome
• Martyr Tiburtius at Rome
• Martyr Castulus at Rome
• Venerable Sebastian the Abbot of Pshekhonye Monastery, Vologda
• Righteous Simeon the Wonderworker of Verkhoturye
• St Modestus the Archbishop of Jerusalem
• St Florus the Bishop of Amisus
• St Michael the Confessor at Constantinople
• New Hieromartyr Archbishop Thaddeus of Tver
• Venerable Daniel the Hesychast

Hymns:

• Martyr Sebastian at Rome, and his companions