Scripture Readings

• 1 Peter 1:3-9
• 1 Peter 1:13-19
• 1 Peter 2:11-24
• John 21:15-25
• Acts 11:19-26, 29-30
• Luke 10:16-21
• Acts 21:26-32
• John 16:2-13

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

— Afterfeast of Ascension. Holy Apostles Bartholomew and Barnabas (1st c.). Ven. Barnabas, Abbot of Vetluga (1445). Uncovering of the Relics of Ven. Ephraim, Abbot of Novotórgsk (1572). Synaxis of the “Axion Estin” Icon of the Mother of God (10th c.). Saint Luke, Archbishop of Simferopol (1961).