Scripture Readings
Sunday, March 20, 2005
Today’s commemorated feasts and saints
FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT — Tone 1. Sunday of Orthodoxy. The Holy Fathers who were slain at the Monastery of St. Savva: Ven. John, Sergius, Patrick, and others (796). Monastic Martyr Euphrosynus of Sinozérsk (Novgorod—1612). Martyr Photini (Svetlana, Fatíma), the Samaritan woman, and her sons: Martyrs Victor and Joses, and two others (ca. 66). Virgin Martyrs Alexandria, Claudia, Euphrasia, Matrona, Juliana, Euphemia, and Theodora (310). St. Nikḗtas the Confessor, Archbishop of Apollonias in Bithynia (ca. 813-820).