06 - June
Nativity of St. John the Baptist
The liturgy celebrates in the birth of St. John the Baptist the dawn of salvation, the appearance in this world of the forerunner of the Messias: “Elizabeth, Zachary’s wife, has brought into the world a great man, John the Baptist, the forerunner of the Savior” (First Antiphon, at Second Vespers). Six months before our Savior’s…