Scripture Readings
Wednesday, June 8, 2005
Today’s commemorated feasts and saints
Leavetaking of Pascha — Forefeast of the Ascension. Translation of the Relics of the Greatmartyr Theodore Stratelates (319). St. Theodore, first Bishop of Rostov and Suzdal’ (1023). Finding of the Relics of Ss. Basil and Constantine, Princes of Yaroslavl (13th c.). St. Ephraim, Patriarch of Antioch (545). Ven. Zosimas of Phœnicia (Syria—6th c.).