There Is No Feast of the Nativity of St. Joseph

June 24th is the solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. Here are five quotes to help you get to know the man of whom Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist.” https://t.co/LtoLRJiOOH

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) June 23, 2021

Holy John the Forerunner, Pray for Us!

Happy Nameday to all celebrating the feast of St John the Baptist today, including John M Boyer and Ioannis Arvanitis of @cappellaromana - the first 2 soloists on this 2001 recording of an anagrammatismos for Theophany by St John Koukouzeles https://t.co/F8HNaUS33M

— Alexander Lingas (@ALLingas) January 7, 2021

The Prophet Zachariah and the Righteous Elizabeth

The Orthodox Church commemorates today the Prophet Zachariah#orthodox_times https://t.co/VCBTumqBAp

— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) September 5, 2020

The Beheading of St. John the Baptist 2020

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The beheading of the Forerunner became an act of divine dispensation, for he preached to those in hell the coming of the Savior. Let Herodias lament, for she entreated lawless murder, loving not the law of God nor eternal life, but that which is false and temporal (Kont., Tone 5) pic.twitter.com/l9DI75zPYv

— St Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary (@stvlads) August 29, 2020

St. John the Baptist in Deesis of Hagia Sophia, Bearing Witness in Chora, Baptism of Christ in Neonian Baptistery (Ravenna), Fresco at Museum of Byzantine Culture (Thessaloniki)
Today is commemoration of the beheading of the Holy and Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John pic.twitter.com/4whJYFq1K1

— The Byzantine Legacy (@ByzantineLegacy) August 29, 2020

The Seal of the Prophets

The Synaxis of the Holy Forerunner John the Baptist

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The Forerunner

St. John the Forerunner

The first guide for Advent: St. John the Baptist by Peter M.J. Stravinskas

Silence bespeaks expediency, complicity, and cowardice, and John the Baptist never kept silent, for even in the womb he announced the truth of Christ (cf. Lk 1:44).

Why not St. John the Forerunner as Well?

Why shouldn't he be named a patron of the Universal Church?



Or is this feast really tied to the Latin devotion to the Holy Family?

Does Rome really speak for the Universal Church in this matter? (Like canonizations and naming doctors of the Church, isn't this only in reference to its own liturgical calendar and cultus?)

The Synaxis of the Holy Forerunner John the Baptist

NLM: The Synaxis of the Holy Forerunner John the Baptist by Gregory DiPippo

Miraculous Icon

There is a miracle icon of St. John the Baptist in Assumption Greek Orthodox Church in Homer Glen, IL that is streaming oil. http://ow.ly/TNxeT #PISTEVO #iBelieve

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Saturday, October 24, 2015

On the Beheading of St. John the FOrerunner

The Ascetic Struggle of Self-Denial: On the Beheading of John the Forerunner by Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev

Related:
Homily on the Feast of the Beheading of St John, the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord by St. Justin (Popovic) of Celije

St. John the Forerunner

The Life of St. John the Baptist
From "The Lives of the Saints and Several Lectures and Sermons" compiled and translated by St. Sebastian Dabovich
The Nativity of Saint John the Baptist by St. John Maximovitch